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Hackensack, NJ
News
School Evacuated, SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully With Barricaded South Hackensack Man In Custody
A school was evacuated and a SWAT team responded after an emotionally troubled man barricaded himself in his South Hackensack apartment Wednesday. The standoff ended about 4½ hours after it began when members of the Bergen County Regional SWAT team entered the home and took the 43-year-old resident into custody. The landlord had called police around 9:30 a.m., saying he'd heard a lot of loud banging and water running for a couple of hours in the Dyer Avenue apartment off Route 80. The man refused to come to the door, so police checked with those who know him. They said they feared he mig…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Standoff
: Woman Bloodied, Barricaded Suspect Surrenders In Nutley Domestic Incident
UPDATE: A man and woman were taken to separate hospitals following a domestic incident and brief standoff that sent two Nutley schools into lockdown on Wednesday. Officers in police vests and carrying rifles converged on the Humbert Street home off Park Avenue shortly after 9 a.m., a witness told Daily Voice. Eastwick College and Washington Elementary School were subsequently placed on lockdown and area traffic diverted. The woman was hospitalized with serious injuries while negotiators talked with the suspect, eventually convincing him to come out peacefully, Nutley Police Director Alpho…
Middletown, NJ
News
Gunman Killed In Jersey Shore Shootout With Police Identified
UPDATE: Authorities on Wednesday identified the out-of-state man who charged at police and was gunned down after he shot and wounded a detective trying to serve a warrant in Long Branch last week. Mark D. Walker II, 34, of Woodbridge, Va. shot the detective in the leg before barricading himself inside the Chelsea Avenue apartment last Friday, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Walker was shot and killed after a fire broke out in the house and he came out shooting nearly nine hours later, multiple sources said. The wounded Monmouth County prosecutor's detective was wor…
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Fire During Deadly Long Branch Police Standoff Displaces Longtime Residents
Several residents were displaced by a fire that broke out during a police standoff that injured a detective and left a gunman dead Friday in Long Branch. More than $18,200 had been raised for the Itzol family, who lives in the Chelsea Avenue building, as of Sunday morning. "This hits extremely hard for my family as we have been long standing residents, 30+ years, of the building that was set fire," Dennis Itzol writes. "My mother and brothers, in one apartment and my uncle and his family in another, both of which were upstairs apartments, have lost everything in their homes due to dam…
Lakewood, NJ
News
SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives
A standoff between police and a Toms River man armed with knives and a bat ended safely, authorities said. The man initially ignored police commands to come out of a home, but eventually was taken into custody by a SWAT team without incident, the police chief said in a press statement. Toms River police were called to Patmas Drive at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a man barricaded inside a residence, according to Toms River Police Chief Mitchell A. Little. An "emotionally disturbed male (was) acting erratically in the residence," according to Little's statement. Family members livi…
Cortlandt, NY
Police & Fire
Man With Shotgun Takes His Own Life In Area, Police Say
A man is dead after taking his own life following a police-involved incident in the area. At about 10:25 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in Putnam County, the town of Kent Ambulance along with the EmStar medic were dispatched to Pudding Street in the Town of Putnam Valley for a male with chest pain, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said. The medic unit was first on scene and was confronted by a man with a shotgun, the sheriff's office said, noting that recognizing the severity of the situation, the medic retreated to safety, while notifying Putnam 911 of the situation. Residents Warned To St…
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
News
Dad Wanted In Drug Deal Sparks SWAT Standoff in Pennsylvania
A father of four and wanted criminal attempted to deliver drugs to juveniles and ended up in a standoff on Tuesday, according to police in Cumberland County. Lower Allen Township police were called to a report of a wanted person in an apartment in the 2100 Block of Cedar Run Drive around 3:30 p.m. Upon arrival it became clear that the man was there to deliver drugs to one or more juveniles who were also reportedly in the residence. The suspect was later identified as JC Bodkins, 35, of Mechanicsburg. Bodkins was wanted for numerous traffic offenses as well as possession with intent to del…
Lancaster, PA
News
Tinder Date With PA Fugitive Woman Feared Would Kill Her, Ends In Standoff In South Carolina
What do a Lancaster County man, Tinder and a standoff have in common? Corry Brooks, 32, of Lancaster, who has been on the run from police since June 25 when he tried to ram police with a car. After a Tinder date went wrong in South Carolina he was apprehended. The Tinder date ended in a more than two-hour-long police standoff at a home on University Forest Drive near Conway, South Carolina on Sunday around 2 p.m., according to Horry County police. After taking Brooks back to her home under unknown circumstances, the South Carolina woman texted her ex-boyfriend who notified police. "He had…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
News
SWAT
Standoff
: Elmwood Park Man Tear-Gassed Out After Threatening Officers With Knives
A potential tragedy was averted after two Elmwood Park police officers came face-to-face Saturday with an agitated ex-con threatening them with a pair of knives, authorities said. "Get the f*** out of my house!" Brian Rodriguez, 33, shouted as he descended the stairs toward them inside his mother's Obal Avenue home, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Coolly and calmly, the officers backed out, Foligno said. A 6½-hour standoff followed, with negotiators trying to talk Rodriguez out, before a SWAT team stormed the house and seized him without incident. Rodriguez was alone upstairs when of…
Lancaster, PA
News
Officer Justified In Shooting Gunman During Standoff Says Lancaster DA
The police officer who shot at a man during a standoff in West Hempfield Township was ruled as “justified in discharging his weapon,” by Lancaster County District Attorney. The standoff started after a woman called 911 reporting when she woke up, a man was standing next to her with a rifle in one hand and a handgun in another on Jan. 3 at 11:45 a.m.according to the DA's release. The woman told dispatchers that the man then loaded the rifle and pointed it at her and had made threats to harm himself. West Hempfield officers came to the home on Goldfinch Drive, Columbia and spoke with the wom…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Jersey City Police Standoff Ends Peacefully
A Jersey City police standoff with a man in a vehicle who claimed to have a weapon ended peacefully around 3:30 p.m. It was not clear if the man had a weapon. The incident began around 10:55 a.m. at the 7-Eleven near JFK Boulevard and Clinton Avenue, according to initial reports. The suspect was reportedly in a vehicle and wanted out of North Bergen, reports say. Due to police activity, please avoid the area of Communipaw Ave & JFK Blvd until further notice. Expect street closures and many emergency personnel in the area. pic.twitter.com/2igufE3HVH — City of Jersey City (@JerseyC…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Jersey City Police Standoff Ends Peacefully
A Jersey City police standoff with a man in a vehicle who claimed to have a weapon ended peacefully around 3:30 p.m. It was not clear if the man had a weapon. The incident began around 10:55 a.m. at the 7-Eleven near JFK Boulevard and Clinton Avenue, according to initial reports. The suspect was reportedly in a vehicle and wanted out of North Bergen, reports say. Due to police activity, please avoid the area of Communipaw Ave & JFK Blvd until further notice. Expect street closures and many emergency personnel in the area. pic.twitter.com/2igufE3HVH — City of Jersey City (@JerseyC…
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