Pascack Valley, NJ
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Troubled Man Hospitalized After Police Response Troubled Man Hospitalized After Police Response
Troubled Man Hospitalized After Police Response A troubled man was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation on Tuesday after authorities responded to his Montvale home. Police had conducted a welfare check after a friend told police the man had texted a photo of a shotgun while saying he intended to harm himself. They summoned a Bergen County Regional SWAT unit and Regional Crisis Negotiation team as a precaution. The situation ended quickly without incident. Police from Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake and Upper Saddle River assisted, along with Bergen County sheriff's officers and members of the Tri-Boro V…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bethlehem, PA
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Allentown Police Shovel Out Car, Donate Food To Elderly Woman Trapped In Home Since Snowstorm Allentown Police Shovel Out Car, Donate Food To Elderly Woman Trapped In Home Since Snowstorm
Allentown Police Shovel Out Car, Donate Food To Elderly Woman Trapped In Home Since Snowstorm Allentown Police sprang to action to shovel out an elderly woman’s car and provide her with groceries after learning that she had been snowed in since last week’s storm. Officers responding to a request for a welfare check on the 700 block of S. Genesee Street Monday afternoon made contact with the elderly woman, who had been unable to shovel or leave her home following the heavy snowfall, the department said on Facebook. The officers successfully shoveled out her car and provided her with bread, eggs and other groceries to ensure her safety and wellbeing. “Thank you to the concerned neigh…

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by Valerie Musson
Lakewood, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Bodies Of Mother, 86, Son, 51, Found In Lakewood Home Prosecutor: Bodies Of Mother, 86, Son, 51, Found In Lakewood Home
Prosecutor: Bodies Of Mother, 86, Son, 51, Found In Lakewood Home Two bodies found in a Lakewood home by police conducting a welfare check were identified as an 86-year-old woman and her 56-year-old son, authorities said Friday. The body of Fabiola Rubiano, 86, and James Rubiano, 51, both “appear to have extensive medical histories,” Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. Billhimer didn’t indicate the suspected causes of death but said, rather, that an investigation by his Major Crime Unit, Lakewood police and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office, which collected evidence, was continuing. Police conducting a welfare check found the bodies on Thursday…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Morris County Man Who Shot At Police Conducting Welfare Check Had Firearms, Drugs Prosecutor: Morris County Man Who Shot At Police Conducting Welfare Check Had Firearms, Drugs
Prosecutor: Morris County Man Who Shot At Police Conducting Welfare Check Had Firearms, Drugs A Washington Township (Morris County) man who shot at officers conducting a welfare check had an assault rifle, ammunition and drugs, authorities charged. Police were conducting a welfare check on a suicidal man at Rock Road home when Keith O'Connor, 49, fired a shotgun "at or in their direction" around 7 p.m. Monday, Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp said. Authorities subsequently found more weapons, including an assault firearm and large-capacity ammunition magazines, and unspecified drugs, Knapp said. O’Connor faces various weapons and drug charges and remains in police cus…

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by Valerie Musson
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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'TRULY HORRIFIC': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home 'TRULY HORRIFIC': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home
'Truly Horrific': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home A nurse from Fair Lawn who moved to Virginia was fatally shot by a police officer performing a welfare check at her house after she charged at him swinging an axe, authorities said. Henrico County police responded to the home of Gay Ellen Plack -- formerly of the Radburn section -- on a welfare check Tuesday, Police Chief Humberto Cardounel said in a video release. No one answered the officers' knocks at the front door, and so they went to the back of the house where they found an unlocked door, Cardounel said. The officers went inside and found a locked door, calling Plack's name several …

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by Cecilia Levine
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home A SWAT team stormed a Teaneck home early Saturday afternoon and seized a 72-year-old auto detailer who's had trouble before with the law. John Heywang barricaded himself in the Ogden Avenue home after Bergen County sheriff's officers went there Saturday morning to execute a removal order, law enforcement sources said. "What began as a civil eviction became a welfare check after there was no answer at the door," Sheriff Anthony Cureton said.  Officers determined that Heywang was inside but wasn't answering the door, Cureton said.  So reinforcements were called in. After 90 minut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Westport, CT
Police & Fire
Westport Woman Involved In I-95 Welfare Check Had Five Active Warrants Westport Woman Involved In I-95 Welfare Check Had Five Active Warrants
Westport Woman Involved In I-95 Welfare Check Had Five Active Warrants Police discovered following a volatile interrogation that a Fairfield County woman aboard a vehicle who was one the subjects of a welfare check  had five active warrants. At approximately 8 a.m. Friday, Westport Police officers were dispatched to check on the welfare of the occupants of a vehicle after it got off on Exit 17 of I-95 in Westport. Officers responded to the registered owner’s address in Westport. Upon arrival, officers met with the registered owner of the vehicle and Cody Ropiak, who identified the female vehicle passenger by a name that was later determined to be false, police…

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