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6-Hour NJ Standoff With Man Firing At Neighbors Ends In Arrest, Police Say 6-Hour NJ Standoff With Man Firing At Neighbors Ends In Arrest, Police Say
6-Hour NJ Standoff With Man Firing At Neighbors Ends In Arrest, Police Say A 56-year-old man was arrested after a six-hour police standoff Monday, June 17 in South Jersey, police said. Officers were called to a home on the first block of Brookfield Avenue in Evesham around 2:25 a.m., where a 911 caller reported an argument with an armed man, Evesham police said. Officers were met with multiple instances of gunfire and heard gunshots from inside the home. They determined a lone male suspect, identified as John G Fox, was barricaded in the home. No law enforcement officers fired their weapons during the encounter. The New Jersey State Police TEAMS (Technical E…

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by Jon Craig & Cecilia Levine
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Man Sought After Standoff With Police In South Jersey Man Sought After Standoff With Police In South Jersey
Man Sought After Standoff With Police In South Jersey A 32-year-old man fled police after a standoff in Cumberland County, authorities said. Officers were initially dispatched to a residence in the 300 block of North 4th Street at approximately 9 a.m. Saturday in reference to a domestic-related incident in which a male made threatening statements, Millville police said. New Jersey State Police and Millville police attempted to make contact with the subject until information was received the male was no longer on location, Chief Ross Hoffman said in a press statement.  The incident remains under investigation.  No one was injured an…

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by Jon Craig
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South Jersey Gets 'Light Sentence' After Shooting At Police, Girlfriend: Prosecutor South Jersey Gets 'Light Sentence' After Shooting At Police, Girlfriend: Prosecutor
South Jersey Gets 'Light Sentence' After Shooting At Police, Girlfriend: Prosecutor A 31-year-old man from Atlantic County has been sentenced for shooting at his girlfriend and police, authorities said. James Weinerman, of Weymouth Township, was sentenced to five years in New Jersey State Prison for aggravated assault, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. The State is expected to appeal the sentence since the original plea deal called for an eight-year prison sentence, the prosecutor said. On Sept. 12, 2020, New Jersey State troopers responded to a report of a domestic dispute at 33 South Jersey Ave. in Weymouth.  Ultimately, this led to the de…

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by Jon Craig
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Help Goes To Distraught Knife-Wielding Man After Paterson's First Standoff Since State Takeover Help Goes To Distraught Knife-Wielding Man After Paterson's First Standoff Since State Takeover
Help Goes To Distraught Knife-Wielding Man After Paterson's First Standoff Since State Takeover UPDATE: The first standoff in Paterson since the state attorney general's office took control of the police department ended peacefully last weekend when a distraught man wielding a knife surrendered after 6½ hours, authorities announced. He was immediately placed into a mental health program, they said. Paterson and New Jersey State police worked together to resolve the confrontation with no injuries at NJ TRANSIT's Market Street garage last Saturday, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. No charges were filed, either, because the incident was considered a mental-health crisi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Suspects Arrested During Standoff With South Jersey Police Suspects Arrested During Standoff With South Jersey Police
Suspects Arrested During Standoff With South Jersey Police A Camden man shot at police during an attempted traffic stop and then locked himself in a garage in a four-hour standoff that ended with his arrest, authorities said. Two other suspects were arrested. Otto Simpson, 29, of Camden, was one of four people in a car that Camden County Police officers tried to pull over on the 2700 block of North Saunders Street at about 2:45 p.m, Wednesday, Nov. 9, Camden County police said. As police tried to stop the car, Simpson got out and shot at police, police said. Simpson and a second man in the car then ran to a garage on the 2600 block of High Street.…

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by Jon Craig
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Fatal Shooting Suspect Surrenders In SWAT Standoff, School Locked Down Fatal Shooting Suspect Surrenders In SWAT Standoff, School Locked Down
Fatal Shooting Suspect Surrenders In SWAT Standoff, School Locked Down A man was shot dead during a police standoff in Burlington County, authorities said. Acting Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw and Beverly City Public Safety Director Rich Wolbert announced that the shooting took place Tuesday, June 14 inside a Beverly City residence. A suspect is in custody.  The shooting, which was reported to police at approximately 1:15 a.m., precipitated a standoff with law enforcement officers that lasted several hours.  A woman and four children were released unharmed.  After negotiations with a SWAT team, the suspect surrendered just after 8:30 a.m., th…

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by Jon Craig
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SWAT STANDOFF: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders SWAT STANDOFF: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders
SWAT Standoff: Man Barricaded In Hotel At Bergen/Rockland Border Surrenders A SWAT standoff at a hotel on the New Jersey/New York border ended peacefully when negotiators talked a barricaded Passaic County man from his room. Local police cleared the floor after the North Haledon man, 53, made what were characterized as alarming phone calls from his room at the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel in Mahwah late Thursday, April 14. A Bergen County Regional SWAT Team and Regional Crisis Negotiation Team were summoned. The man apparently believed he was being either tracked or followed to the hotel -- also known as the Crossroads -- at the confluence of Routes 287, 17 and 202 in Ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco