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Paramus, NJ
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Fair Lawn, Paramus Police Nab Trio After Mall Theft, Chase, Crash
Police captured three suspects who bailed from their brand-new sedan after it crashed in Fair Lawn during a Friday evening chase that began with a theft at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, authorities confirmed. The pursuit apparently began after a theft from the Apple store at the Garden State Plaza. The suspects fled west on Route 4 and ended up in Fair Lawn, where the Infiniti slammed into a utility pole at the corner of Berkshire Road and Fair Lawn Parkway, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Fair Lawn police arrested two suspects and Paramus police nabbed the thir…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Online Threat To Park Ridge High School Staffer Brings SWAT Units, Activates Shelter-In-Place
An online threat to staff at Park Ridge High School proved unfounded, said authorities who activated a shelter-in-place Thursday as a precaution. All school activities were canceled for the remainder of the day after borough police, assisted by two roving Bergen County Regional SWAT units and their police colleagues from Montvale and Woodcliff Lake, responded, Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. The tactical squad helped escort the students during dismissal, the captain said. An investigation into the source was continuing, he said. Anyone who has information that can help find whoever was r…
Hackensack, NJ
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Hells Angels, Pagans: Police, SWAT Team Break Up Brewing Brawl At Rochelle Park Cycle Shop
Police from several towns defused a potential brawl between groups of Hells Angels and Pagans at the Bergen Harley Davidson store in Rochelle Park -- and expect more trouble in the future. A Hells Angels member was buying a motorcycle at the Essex Street shop on Saturday when a Pagan reportedly told him "this is Pagan territory," according to Rochelle Park police. They began to argue, after which several members of each gang showed up "to support their member," according to a police report. "The situation was de-escalated by a large police presence," the report said. Rochelle Park police …
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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SWAT Standoff: Mahwah Dispatcher Convinces Man Who Fired Gun In Home To Surrender
A Mahwah man who fired a gun in his home and then called police to tell them about it was taken for a psychiatric evaluation after a brief standoff Wednesday. The 57-year-old Apple Ridge Community resident emerged peacefully, carrying the weapon and his cellphone, with which he’d been talking to a police dispatcher who coaxed him out. The Westervelt Lane resident called shortly before 4:30 p.m., saying “shots have been fired in my home,” said Capt. Stephen Jaffe, the department’s officer in charge. The man explained that he “thought he heard someone [who] have tried to enter his home in th…
Englewood, NJ
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SWAT Team Seizes Accused New Milford Sex Offender Holed Up In Car At Englewood Boat Basin
A New Milford man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl had to be removed from his car by a SWAT team after he drove it into a restricted area of Palisades Interstate Park and then refused to get out, authorities said. A PIP police officer tried to stop 21-year-old Mike Andrew Urgiles after he drove on the wrong side of a closed gate on Tuesday, Officer-In-Charge Lt. Jock Watkins, Jr. said. Urgiles “eluded the officer and fled back into the park,” Watkins said. Officers found his car in the Englewood Boat Basin parking lot a short time later, but Urgiles refused their orders to g…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Judge Releases Musician Accused Of Beating Wife In 5-Hour Cliffside Park SWAT Standoff
UPDATE: A Cliffside Park jazz player involved in a 5-hour SWAT standoff spent less than a day at the Bergen County Jail before a judge ordered him released pending a hearing. Kermit Driscoll, 62, was first taken to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for a psychiatric evaluation before he was transferred to the Bergen County Jail following Monday night's incident. He was to be held in the county lockup pending trial on charges that include aggravated assault, violating a restraining order, false imprisonment, hindering his arrest, obstruction and harassment. But a judge released Drisc…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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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…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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SWAT Standoff Ends In Harrington Park: Barricaded Man Hospitalized, Streets Reopened
A SWAT-team standoff of more than 2½ hours ended peacefully in Harrington Park Thursday afternoon with a troubled man being taken for a psychiatric evaluation. Streets were closed around Burkhardt Lane, where the incident occurred at a residence, and Herron Court, where a staging area was set up. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, a negotiations unit and police from Harrington Park and Norwood were among the responders, along with borough ambulances. The 25-year-old man was taken to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus after being talked out of the home, responders said. An older woman w…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Elmwood Park Man In SWAT Standoff Previously Was Accused Of Pulling Gun During Parking Argument
UPDATE: A gunman who surrendered nearly three hours after barricading himself in his Elmwood Park garden apartment Sunday made headlines earlier this year when police said he pulled a gun on another man during an argument over a parking space. Lonnie Day, 26, was taken into custody without incident just after 3:30 p.m., authorities told Daily Voice. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, the county prosecutor's Major Crimes Unit and several county sheriff's officers were among a large number of responders to the Donor Avenue apartment off Elmwood Terrace in Elmwood Village, beginning around 12…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Elmwood Park Man In SWAT Standoff Previously Was Accused Of Pulling Gun During Parking Argument
UPDATE: A gunman who surrendered nearly three hours after barricading himself in his Elmwood Park garden apartment Sunday made headlines earlier this year when police said he pulled a gun on another man during an argument over a parking space. Lonnie Day, 26, was taken into custody without incident just after 3:30 p.m., authorities told Daily Voice. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, the county prosecutor's Major Crimes Unit and several county sheriff's officers were among a large number of responders to the Donor Avenue apartment off Elmwood Terrace in Elmwood Village, beginning around 12…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom
A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was deployed to a Fairview home in search of a man who authorities said abducted his children after stabbing their mother. Pedro Vaca, 29, apparently visited a relative there after signing the kids out of school and dropping them off with a family member in North Bergen around 3 p.m., authorities said. Police pinged his cellphone to Fairview, where Vaca "had been laying his head" with another relative on Greeley Avenue, borough Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The SWAT team was dispatched to Fairview at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, Kahn said. V…
Bergenfield, NJ
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SWAT Raid On Quiet New Milford Street Turns Up LSD, Mushrooms, 'Special K,' More
A SWAT team hit a modest home on a winding New Milford street and seized a 28-year-old unemployed resident who authorities said was dealing LSD, mushrooms, Ketamine and more. Cory O. Mancini also had pot and hash oil vapes, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said after the Birchwood Road raid earlier this week following an investigation by his detectives and New Milford police, assisted by a Bergen County Regional SWAT team. Mancini was charged with a host of drug-related counts and released pending a Sept. 12 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Cal…
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