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Overnight Arrest Ends 9-Hour Parsippany SWAT Standoff
A Parsippany man was being held in the Morris County Jail on two outstanding warrants following a nine-hour standoff with local police and the area SWAT team, authorities said. Patrol officers were dispatched to a Smith Road home for a welfare check on Jesus Quintela, 40, around 4 p.m. Tuesday at the request of a family member, Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Chief Andrew Miller said. The family member told officers that Quintela may have a gun -- and that had two outstanding warrants out for his arrest, Miller said. Arriving officers noticed Quintela was inside his house and made multiple at…
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: 9-Hour Parsippany SWAT Standoff Ends In Early-Morning Arrest
A Parsippany man was being held in the Morris County Jail on two active warrants following a nine-hour standoff with local police and the area SWAT team, authorities said. Patrol officers were dispatched to a Smith Road home for a welfare check on Jesus Quintela, 40, around 4 p.m. Tuesday at the request of a family member, Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Chief Andrew Miller said. The family member told officers that Quintela may be in possession of a firearm and had two active warrants out for his arrest, Miller said. Arriving officers noticed Quintela was inside his house and made multiple a…
Police & Fire
SWAT Standoff Ends In Upper Saddle River After Drunken Suicidal Man Fires Shot, Points Gun
An intoxicated, suicidal Upper Saddle River man pointed a gun out the window at SWAT team members before surrendering after a 3½-hour standoff overnight Sunday, authorities said. Family members fled as Christopher Koski, 24, fired a shotgun blast in the house and threw two rifles out the window, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. A member of the Bergen County Regional Crisis Negotiation Team eventually talked him out, but not before Koski “pointed a loaded handgun out a second-floor window” at the tactical unit, Kane said. Authorities seized several firearms from the home, the lieutenant said…
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SWAT Incident Ends, Barricaded Cliffside Park Man Removed From Home
UPDATE: A five-hour standoff with a troubled man who barricaded himself in a Cliffside Park home ended peacefully early Monday evening. The man was taken to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus at 5:25 p.m. after several rounds of tear gas were shot into the home at Glen Road and Aurora Avenue, Police Chief Richard Gaito told Daily Voice. The man’s wife was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with a bruise on her head, which brought police -- and, later, a Bergen County Regional SWAT team and a negotiator. There was no immediate word on whether or what charges would be filed. Po…
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Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A man who barricaded himself in an East Rutherford apartment on Monday after authorities said he pointed a gun at his girlfriend is an ex-con with a criminal history dating back nearly 20 years, records show. Mauro Jay Enriquez, a 39-year-old Filipino national, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing after a county Regional SWAT team took him into custody and turned him over to East Rutherford police after a nearly three-hour standoff. The 6-foot, 180-pound Enriquez is charged with aggravated assault (pointing a firearm at anothe…
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