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Misaddressed Bomb Threat Over Transgender Canadian Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To Glen Rock Misaddressed Bomb Threat Over Transgender Canadian Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To Glen Rock
Misaddressed Bomb Threat Over Transgender Canadian Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To Glen Rock A misdirected bomb threat intended for a school more than 600 miles away brought the bomb squad, K-9 unit and SWAT team to Glen Rock on Tuesday. A Central School in Hamilton, Ontario, apparently was the intended target of an email directed to the school of the same name in Glen Rock, borough Police Chief Dean Ackermann said on Sept. 26. No fewer than six schools in the Hamilton-Wentworth district in Ontario reported receiving an unrelenting string of threats that began late last week. Their Central School wasn’t one of them, however. Not taking any chances, the Glen Rock police chief sum…
Ex-Con From Viral Jersey Shore Arrest Video Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More Ex-Con From Viral Jersey Shore Arrest Video Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More
Ex-Con From Viral Jersey Shore Arrest Video Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More An ex-con whose Point Pleasant boardwalk arrest became part of a viral video was busted once again on drug charges, this time along with his roommate, authorities said. A SWAT team led a raid on the Grand Street apartment in Garfield that Zakee Murphy, 32, shares with fish tank technician Ryene Perry, 34, landing both in jail on various drug-related counts, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Murphy has been arrested dozens of times in multiple counties over the past decade, records show. This time he's accused of using the Garfield home to stash the drugs along with more than $8,…
GOTCHA! Detectives Nab Armed Englewood Teen, Alleged Teaneck Accomplice In Paterson Shooting GOTCHA! Detectives Nab Armed Englewood Teen, Alleged Teaneck Accomplice In Paterson Shooting
Gotcha! Detectives Nab Armed Englewood Teen, Alleged Teaneck Accomplice In Paterson Shooting A 19-year-old Englewood man was carrying a loaded gun when city police detectives nabbed him and an ex-con from Teaneck on attempted murder charges out of Paterson, authorities said. The investigators chased down Zion Martin, 19, of Englewood, and Malik Lee, 26, of Teaneck after spotting them in the area of West Englewood Avenue and Lafayette Place earlier this week, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. Both were wanted on warrants in connection with the May 5 shooting of a 28-year-old Paterson man who survived after being struck multiple times on Summer Street and Hamilton Avenue, authorities s…
APARTMENT RAID: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed APARTMENT RAID: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed
Apartment Raid: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed A SWAT-backed drug raid on a Hackensack ex-con’s apartment turned up “a large amount” of cocaine, as well as three Tasers, authorities said Friday. Howard M. Harper, 41, was arrested on drug and weapons charges Tuesday following a warranted raid on his Quail Heights apartment on Prospect Avenue, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The SWAT team-backed raid was part of a joint investigation that Musella said his Narcotics Task Force detectives were conducting with Hackensack police. Harper has a criminal history covering nearly all of his adult life, records show. These include arr…
Elmwood Park Middle School Locked Down, Searched After Gun Report Elmwood Park Middle School Locked Down, Searched After Gun Report
Elmwood Park Middle School Locked Down, Searched After Gun Report UPDATE: Elmwood Park Middle School was locked down, a SWAT team and K-9 unit were brought in and backpacks were searched by police Thursday after four students reported hearing another say that he was carrying a gun. Each of the four was interviewed separately and "told the exact same story without wavering," Police Chief Michael Foligno said. "They couldn't identify the student visually because it apparently happened between classes," Foligno said. "That's when the hallways are full of kids. "All they could say was that the student had a black backpack and said he had a gun in it. They ea…
SWAT STANDOFF: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident SWAT STANDOFF: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident
SWAT Standoff: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident UPDATE: A troubled River Edge man remained barricaded for several hours before finally surrendering peacefully Sunday during what became the second call of the day for the Bergen County Regional SWAT team. The man's mother had summoned police to their East Midland Avenue home near Cedar Avenue Sunday morning on a welfare check, saying that he'd been "acting irrationally," a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. The father of three refused to talk with police, however. Not knowing whether or not he was a danger to himself or others, police summoned the SWAT team, along with the county Re…
SWAT: Armed Ridgefield Park Man, 58, Takes Own Life SWAT: Armed Ridgefield Park Man, 58, Takes Own Life
SWAT: Armed Ridgefield Park Man, 58, Takes Own Life A distraught Ridgefield Park man shot himself dead after barricading himself in his home Thursday night, authorities confirmed. Scott DeGraw, 58, had recently lost a close friend and was “going through a tough situation,” one responder said. A woman sustained minor injuries after trying to take a knife from him when police were called around 7:30 p.m., he said. The area around the Main Street home near Grand Avenue was cordoned off and a SWAT team responded, along with borough, Bogota, Little Ferry and Ridgefield police, Lt. Arthur Jensen said. Everyone else got out of the home safely. …
NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok
NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok A New Jersey woman posted a 48-part series on TikTok detailing the terrifying days that a member of an extremist group invaded her home and tried to reclaim it as his ancestral property. Shanetta -- on the video-sharing app as @regblackgrl -- said she began getting letters from members of a sovereign citizens group who claimed ownership of her Ivy Street home in Newark, since purchasing and renovating it back in February. Sometime last week, the men -- who identified as members of the Al Moroccan Empire -- broke into the house, changed the locks and hung a moorish flag in the window. On J…
Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say
Girl Beaten, Held Captive At Gunpoint In Franklin Lakes Home By Passaic County Trio, Police Say One suspect jumped from a second-floor window and two others were also arrested following a reported gunpoint assault on a teenage girl Sunday night in Franklin Lakes, authorities said. Detectives were still trying to sort out stories after an initial investigation found that two Passaic County men struck and threatened an underage girl taken to a McCoy Road home against her will, they said. Donte Aste, 21, of Paterson, and Ezequiel Diaz, 19, of Passaic were both charged with aggravated assault, criminal restraint and illegal possession of a .40-caliber Taurus handgun, Capt. John Bakelaar s…
SEE ANYTHING? Jogger Says Assailant Grabbed Her In Choke Hold Outside Clifton Park SEE ANYTHING? Jogger Says Assailant Grabbed Her In Choke Hold Outside Clifton Park
SEE Anything? Jogger Says Assailant Grabbed Her In Choke Hold Outside Clifton Park Clifton police were searching for witnesses after a Passaic woman told them she'd been accosted by two men, one of whom put her in a choke hold, while jogging around Nash Park. The 33-year-old woman told police one of the assailants grabbed her from behind as she jogged near the intersection of Randolph and Hamilton avenues shortly before 5:20 a.m. Sept. 7. "After a brief struggle, she reported being able to break free and flee," Lt. Robert Bracken said.She described him as apparently Dominican, 28 to 30 years old and about 6 feet tall. She couldn't describe a man who she said was with her…
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush UPDATE: A local ex-con recruited two unemployed Baltimore men who shot and killed a Newark man in an ambush at an Englewood house party last month, authorities said. Daily Voice broke the story Saturday that members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT team captured Jamal "Mally" Robinson, 44, in a rental car on Reade Street in Englewood on Friday in connection with the fatal June 20 shooting at the corner of 2nd and 4th streets. What was temporarily withheld was that authorities had also captured one of two accused hit men while they searched for the other. Dejuan Stokes, 23 (photo inset, abo…