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Allentown, PA
Police & Fire
'Person In Crisis' Rescued From Ledge Of 8th Street Bridge: Allentown Police
Police in Lehigh County rescued a man apparently standing on the outer ledge of an Allentown bridge Thursday morning, authorities said. With help from Allentown police crisis negotiators, officers were able to convince the "person in crisis" to come back over the ledge of the 8th Street Bridge around 11:30 a.m., police said. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment, police said. No further information was immediately available.
Brookfield, CT
Police & Fire
Police Involved In Standoff At CT Motel
A suspected bank robber was nabbed following an hours-long standoff with police at a Connecticut hotel. Hartford County resident David Latino, age 49, of Southington, was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 14, after barricading himself in the carrier Motor Lodge, in Newington, authorities said. The incident began around 4:30 p.m., when Plainville Police detectives tracked Latino from a bank robbery that had occurred in Plainville earlier in the day to the Carrier Motor Lodge located at 2660 Berlin Turnpike, according to Lieutenant Nicholas Miano, of the Newington Police Department. When …
Hackensack, NJ
News
SWAT
Standoff
: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident
UPDATE: A troubled River Edge man remained barricaded for several hours before finally surrendering peacefully Sunday during what became the second call of the day for the Bergen County Regional SWAT team. The man's mother had summoned police to their East Midland Avenue home near Cedar Avenue Sunday morning on a welfare check, saying that he'd been "acting irrationally," a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. The father of three refused to talk with police, however. Not knowing whether or not he was a danger to himself or others, police summoned the SWAT team, along with the county Re…
Franklin Township, NJ
Police & Fire
SWAT
Standoff
: Somerset County Gunman Complies After Firing Shots At Visitor
A 4-hour standoff ended Tuesday morning with a Somerset County homeowner in custody after he fired shots at a visitor, authorities said. The victim was visiting the apparent gunman at his Elm Drive home in Montgomery Township around 5:30 a.m. in an attempt to collect a debt from him, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson, Chief of County Detectives John W. Fodor, and Montgomery Township Captain/Director James Gill. When the homeowner, who is known to the victim, answered the front door, he got out of the house and fired a single shot from a handgu…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
PD: SWAT Standoff Ends In Arrest Of Berks County Man Who Allegedly Threatened Wife With Gun
A 36-year-old man was in custody Friday morning after a nearly 5-hour standoff with police in Berks County that began Thursday night, authorities said. Sean M. Butler Jr. had allegedly assaulted and threatened his wife with a firearm inside a home on the 2200 block of Spring Street in Spring Township around 10 p.m, according to Deputy Chief of the Spring Police Department, Stephen Powell. With a crisis negotiation team on the scene, police talked to Butler Jr. through the phone, in an attempt to get him to surrender, Powell said. After Butler refused to surrender, police created a dis…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Police Officers Stop Suicide Attempt On Overpass In Westchester
A suicidal Westchester man who was threatening to jump off an overpass of the Bronx River Parkway was saved by police. The incident took place around 7:40 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 15, in Tuckahoe. That's when members of the City of Yonkers Police Department, Village of Tuckahoe Police Department, and Westchester County Department of Public Safety responded to the Tuckahoe Road bridge overpass of the Bronx River Parkway, said Yonkers Police Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos. Officers, who found the man on a stone wall, were able to engage the man in conversation, including members of th…
Edison, NJ
Police & Fire
6-Hour SWAT Standoff: Teen Intruder Barricades Himself In Jamesburg Home
A six-hour SWAT stand-off ended peacefully in Jamesburg after a teenage boy who threatened to commit a series of violent crimes and kill entered a local house and refused to leave Thursday, authorities said. Residents of a Pergola Avenue home called police after the unidentified boy, 15, came in and refused to leave around 11:20 a.m., Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet and Chief James J. Craparotta of the Jamesburg Police Department said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Special Operations Response Team (SORT) was called to the scene after the boy…
Lyndhurst, NJ
Police & Fire
Police Converge On Ex-Con At Lyndhurst Motel After Lengthy Pursuit
A recent parolee with a lengthy rap sheet was chased by police and then taken into custody by tactical officers after he barricaded himself in a Lyndhurst motel before dawn Wednesday, authorities said. Sgt. Rick Pizzuti was on patrol around midnight when he found a Toyota Camry with an expired temporary registration tag in the parking lot of the Winslow Motor Inn on Rutherford Avenue, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Eventually, 30-year-old Quaire Wilson of Bloomfield got into the Camry and pulled out of the lot, he said. Pizzutti then tried to pull him over, but Wilson hit the gas and …
Norwalk, CT
Police & Fire
Man Surrenders To Police After Standoff In Norwalk
A 52-year-old man has been apprehended following a standoff with police in Norwalk. Norwalk Police officers responded to Creeping Hemlock Drive for a report of a despondent male at around 10:40 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27. The man, Joseph Sander, made threats to harm another individual within his residence, police said. When officers arrived they observed a female victim on the front steps with Sander standing next to her with a knife. She was able to escape without injury. Sander quickly returned to the house, starting the standoff. The Emergency …
Fairfield, CT
Police & Fire
Armed, Barricaded Fairfield Man Surrenders After Three-Hour Standoff, Police Say
A report by a family member that his father was having a mental breakdown led to a three-hour standoff with a Fairfield man. The incident began around 4 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 21, when the family member went to Fairfield Police headquarters and reported that his father was acting erratically after picking up a police report that indicated his wife was having an affair, said Fairfield Police Capt. Robert Kalamaras. When police went to the Wormwood Road home to check on the man, he made comments to police that he was considering harming himself and had barricaded himself inside the home with s…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Standoff
: Park Ridge Police Sergeant Talks Out Armed Barricaded Gun Collector
UPDATE: An agitated weapons collector who barricaded himself in a Park Ridge basement with a loaded gun during a family dispute finally emerged peacefully nearly 2½ hours later, thanks to a local police sergeant, authorities said. The 32-year-old former U.S. Army veteran had been drinking when he had words with his mother, grabbed a rifle and went to the basement of the Johnsvale Road home around 9:15 p.m., they said. Police were aware that he had "a large cache of weapons at the ready," Police Chief Joseph Madden said Friday morning. Inside the house were at least 30 legally-registered we…
Bergenfield, NJ
Police & Fire
'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station
A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, crisis negotiators and the county bomb squad were among the responders to what turned out to be a "swatting" incident at a Bergenfield gas station before dawn Saturday. The 5:13 a.m. a.m. caller claimed to be holed up in the BP station on New Bridge Road near the CSX railroad tracks and was planning to “blow the place up" -- prompting an immediate response, Bergenfield Police Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. The caller made several claims -- among them, that he could see police outside, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident said…
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