Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say
SWAT Team Seizes Ridgefield Park Hotel Couple With Gun, Hollowpoint Ammo, Police Say A Bergen County Regional SWAT team played a major role in the arrest of two Ridgefield Park hotel guests who police said had a gun with hollowpoint bullets in their room. Village police alerted the SWAT team afternoon after an employee at the Hampton Inn on Route 46 reported spotting the gun and drugs just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Joseph Rella said. Adjacent rooms were evacuated before the SWAT team eventually seized James Douglas Ray, 55, and Evelyn Christine Solomon, 46, he said. "It couldn't have been more seamless," Rella said, praising the tactical unit professionalism…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Prosecutor: Couple Had Coke, Pot, 4 Kids In Englewood Apartment Prosecutor: Couple Had Coke, Pot, 4 Kids In Englewood Apartment Prosecutor: Couple Had Coke, Pot, 4 Kids In Englewood Apartment
Prosecutor: Couple Had Coke, Pot, 4 Kids In Englewood Apartment A couple had four children in an Englewood apartment when police raided it and found crack and pot, authorities said Tuesday. Varian H. Hooks, 28, who rents the Mattlage Place apartment, and 29-year-old Christina L. Robinson of Paterson were charged with drug offenses and child endangerment after a raid led by a Bergen County Regional SWAT team, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A judge ordered Hooks released with conditions. Robinson also was released pending an Aug. 22 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Calo thanked the SWAT team, the Ber…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully
Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully No charges will be filed against an emotionally troubled 37-year-old Englewood man armed with scissors who kept police at bay for more than three hours, insisting they commit "suicide by cop" by shooting him, authorities said. Responding officers to a 1:30 p.m. call in the Forest Gardens apartment complex on East Forest Avenue found him inside "armed with the scissors, acting irrationally, telling the officers to shoot him and that he was going to harm himself and others," Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. The officers summoned their department's Emergency Services …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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She Thought She Wouldn't Win: North Jersey, Meet Your Favorite Fit Cop She Thought She Wouldn't Win: North Jersey, Meet Your Favorite Fit Cop She Thought She Wouldn't Win: North Jersey, Meet Your Favorite Fit Cop
She Thought She Wouldn't Win: North Jersey, Meet Your Favorite Fit Cop The readers have spoken and the results are in.  Congratulations to Wayne Police Officer Christie Ohlendorf, who was voted North Jersey's favorite "Fit Cop" in the Daily Voice competition. Ohlendorf, a CrossFit athlete -- was certain she wouldn't win but earned 27 percent of votes (out of the 10 total law enforcement officers). Paramus Deputy Chief Robert Guidetti took second place with 23 percent of votes.  Third place was a tie between Bergenfield PO Ahmed Alagha and Wood-Ridge PO Timothy Janz with 10 percent of votes each. Fit & Blue will be donating apparel to Ohlendorf…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags
Bergen Prosecutor: PA Tech Trafficked Assault Rifles, High-Capacity Mags An undercover detective with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office bought several rifles – including assault weapons – along with more than a half-dozen high-capacity magazines and over 100 rounds of ammo from a Pennsylvania man, said authorities who arrested him. Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Andrew Okie, a 23-year-old electronics technician from Tobyhanna, PA met with the investigator several times and sold: one Century Arms AK47 rifle; two Ruger AR15 rifles; one American Tactical AR15 rifle; seven high-capacity firearm magazines; more than 100 rounds of ammunition (7.62 x 39MM and 5.56 x …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team 4-For-4 In April Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team 4-For-4 In April Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team 4-For-4 In April
Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team 4-For-4 In April WYCKOFF, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A standoff at a Wyckoff home that brought a Bergen County Regional SWAT team Thursday afternoon ended peacefully. That makes four SWAT team calls in just under two weeks that were resolved without incident. The Bergen County Mental Health Screening Agency asked that a Wyckoff officer respond to the Martom Road home off Van Houten Avenue with them to assist in a mental health screening of a man who lives there just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Lt. Joseph Soto said. The man "came to the door and made several concerning comments and then barricaded himself i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team Now 4-For-4 In April Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team Now 4-For-4 In April Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team Now 4-For-4 In April
Wyckoff Standoff Ends Peacefully, Bergen SWAT Team Now 4-For-4 In April WYCKOFF, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A standoff at a Wyckoff home that brought a Bergen County Regional SWAT team Thursday afternoon ended peacefully. That makes four SWAT team calls in just under two weeks that were resolved without incident. The Bergen County Mental Health Screening Agency asked that a Wyckoff officer respond to the Martom Road home off Van Houten Avenue with them to assist in a mental health screening of a man who lives there just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Lt. Joseph Soto said. The man "came to the door and made several concerning comments and then barricaded himself i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History
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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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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STANDOFF ENDS: SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman STANDOFF ENDS: SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman STANDOFF ENDS: SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman
Standoff Ends: SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Bergen County Regional SWAT team members seized a suicidal man who'd barricaded himself in an apartment above an East Rutherford restaurant late Monday morning after holding a gun to his girlfriend's head, authorities said. "He was turned over to East Rutherford police, as it's their jurisdiction," Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino said. "He had the gun to his girlfriend's head," a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice earlier. "She managed to run out without incident. A perimeter was es…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," authorities said. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Urena barricaded himself in the bathroom and began c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," Daily Voice has learned. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Bloods member barricaded himself in the bathr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Paramus Bust: 7 Pounds Heroin, 2+ Pounds Cocaine, $40G Found Hidden In Car Paramus Bust: 7 Pounds Heroin, 2+ Pounds Cocaine, $40G Found Hidden In Car Paramus Bust: 7 Pounds Heroin, 2+ Pounds Cocaine, $40G Found Hidden In Car
Paramus Bust: 7 Pounds Heroin, 2+ Pounds Cocaine, $40G Found Hidden In Car An unemployed Massachusetts couple had nearly seven pounds of heroin, more than two pounds of cocaine and $40,000 in drug proceeds stashed in hidden compartments of their vehicle when they were stopped in Paramus by members of a joint county, state and federal task force, authorities said. Candido Tomasini, 35, and Maribel Roman, 40, of Fitchburg were both ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing this Friday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Prosecutor’s detectives teamed up with agents from the DEA, the New York State Drug Enforcement Task Force, …

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by Jerry DeMarco