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| | Police briefs, Oct. 30 to Nov. 6
11/06/2008
A Montclair High School student was charged with making terroristic threats after she went into a tirade during class and threatened a mass shooting and a bombing at the school, according to police.
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| | Police briefs, Oct. 23 to Oct. 30, 2008
10/30/2008
Before school started this past Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, a 13-year-old student of a Maple Avenue school was standing in nearby Glenfield Park with his cousin when he was approached by the suspect, who is also 13, police indicated.
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| | Suspects strip man to his underwear during armed robbery
10/28/2008
As he entered the Lackawanna Plaza shopping center, a 26-year-old Newark man was grabbed by two suspects and led to a secluded area of the parking lot, where he was stripped down and robbed, police said.
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| | Police news briefs, Oct. 16 to 23
10/23/2008
A man with a silver revolver walked up behind three people strolling in the area between Walnut Street and Claremont Avenue and robbed them at gunpoint between last Thursday, Oct. 16, and this past Saturday, Oct. 18, police said.
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| | Cops: Robber with silver revolver strikes twice in three days
10/20/2008
Three people walking in the area between Walnut Street and Claremont Avenue were robbed between last Thursday, Oct. 16, and this past Saturday, Oct. 18, by a man with a silver revolver, police said.
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| | Cops: Boy finds suspected burglar inside his kitchen
10/16/2008
A boy who was awakened by the sound of his home’s rear sliding door clicking shut went into the kitchen and found a stranger looking through his mom’s purse, police said.
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| | Police: Four suspects beat, rob two men on Forest Street
10/09/2008
Two men were attacked by a group of four robbers as they walked on Forest Street at about 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, police said.
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| | Authorities: Woman struck in hit-and-run is seriously injured
10/09/2008
The Vehicular Homicide Unit of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office was called to investigate a hit-and-run accident last week on Bloomfield Avenue that sent a 23-year-old pedestrian to the hospital.
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| | Dog abducted from PAWS days before scheduled adoption
10/09/2008
Two days before a family was set to take her in, a pit bull named Ruby was stolen from the Pound Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) shelter on North Willow Street.
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| | Police blotter, 9.25-10.02
10/02/2008
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| | Police: Packs of juveniles commit two muggings in one night
09/29/2008
Groups of teenagers robbed two juveniles in separate crimes last Friday, Sept. 26, during which one of the suspects flashed a folding knife and another punched a victim in the face, knocking him off his bike, police said.
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| | Police briefs, Sept. 18 to 25
09/25/2008
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| | Police Briefs, Sept. 11 to 18
09/18/2008
A 35-year-old Montclair man was stabbed in the abdomen near the intersection of Orange Road and Cedar Avenue this past Sunday, Sept. 14, at 12:50 a.m., police said.
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| | Police briefs, Sept. 4 to 11
09/11/2008
Three teenagers from Montclair drank vodka and decided to take a ride to McDonald’s, but the driver crashed his Honda Accord into a wall along the way, police said.
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| | Police find gym bag packed with pot
09/11/2008
Detectives seized a gym bag filled with three-and-a-half pounds of marijuana.
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| | Police briefs, Aug. 28 to Sept. 4
09/04/2008
A middle-aged man in a white van beckoned a Montclair teenager, who was walking on Irving Street, to draw near to his vehicle last Monday, Aug. 25, at about 9:45 a.m., police said.
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| | A closer watch on 12 intersections
09/04/2008
Right on the heels of the “Cops in the Crosswalks” program, during which 812 tickets were issued to drivers who allegedly did not yield to detectives posing as pedestrians in crosswalks, the Montclair police plan to launch another pedestrian safety in
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| | Police briefs, Aug. 21 to 28
08/28/2008
With his handgun pointed at a Harrison Avenue service station worker, an armed robber took hundreds of dollars from the victim on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 24, police said.
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| | Police briefs, Aug. 14 to 21
08/21/2008
A North Mountain Avenue homeowner awoke to see her 1993 Honda Accord backing out of her driveway, with two men sitting in the front seats last Friday, Aug. 15, at about 4:30 a.m., authorities said.
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| | Police briefs, Aug. 7 to 14
08/14/2008
After getting pulled over for traffic violations, a Montclair man punched and kicked police officers as they tried to search him, police said.
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| | Two women randomly attacked with glass bottles
08/14/2008
A man from Montclair randomly broke a beer bottle over a woman’s head and hit another woman in the leg with a bottle while walking in the area of Walnut Street and Greenwood Avenue, according to police.
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| | 21-year-old man lights himself on fire in suicide attempt
08/14/2008
A 21-year-old Montclair man tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire this past Sunday, Aug. 10, at about 7:45 p.m., police and fire officials said.
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| | Police briefs, July 24 to 31
07/31/2008
Through the past 10 days, police have received a large number of reports of residential burglaries in certain hotspots.
"In most cases, rear doors have been left unlocked by the residents, allowing the suspect(s) easy entry," stated Montclair Police Lt
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| | Police briefs, July 10 to 17
07/17/2008
After he was beaten so badly that his sinuses and nasal bones were fractured and he wavered in and out of consciousness, a Montclair man was hoisted by his attackers and thrown into a vacant Mission Street lot between 10 p.m. on Friday, July 11, and 4 a.m
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| | Police briefs, July 3 and 10
07/10/2008
Police alerted the Secret Service after Montclair officers apprehended a man carrying apparent $100 bills that were, in fact, $5 bills in disguise, authorities said. When held up to the light, they had the watermark of Abraham Lincoln, the president adorn
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| | Police briefs, June 26 to July 3, 2008
07/03/2008
A loaded gun was stolen from an apartment on Forest Street on Tuesday, June 24, between 11 a.m. and 9:15 p.m., police said.
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| | Cops: 18-year-old leads child to restroom, then attacks
07/03/2008
After police revealed that a 12-year-old boy from Montclair was sexually assaulted in the bathroom of the Montclair Public Library, a library official said the building’s security situation would be reexamined.
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| | Another run-in with the law for alleged shooter
07/03/2008
The man who allegedly fired multiple fatal gunshots into the mother of his children inside The Helen & Bill Geyer YMCA last Thursday has been riding in the backseats of police cars and spending time in state correctional facilities since the mid-1990s, ac
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| | Police briefs, June 19 to 26
06/26/2008
A man who spilled a blood trail from where he was assaulted on Mission Street to his home on Wheeler Street on Sunday, June 22, around 10 p.m. was taken to University Hospital in Newark with head injuries, police said.
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| | Woman, 30, gets black eye after robbery
06/23/2008
A man punched a 30-year-old woman in the face as she walked along High Street and tore her purse off its strap during a robbery around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday, June 17, police said.
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| | Police briefs, June 12 to 19
06/19/2008
After his bosses refused to open their barbershop an hour and a half after closing time for him to cut a customer’s hair, an employee of the aptly named TKO Style on Bloomfield Avenue broke in and got into a fistfight with the owner’s father, police s
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| | Cops to pose as pedestrians in crosswalks
06/19/2008
New Jersey law requires drivers to yield to pedestrians, but in practice, it tends to be the other way around.
Local police, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Rutgers University have come up with a way to counteract that custom.
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| | Police briefs, June 5 to 12
06/11/2008
More than 10 people ganged up on a 19-year-old, slashed and stabbed him at a crowded graduation party on Llewellyn Road this past weekend, police said.
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| | Police briefs, May 29 to June 5, 2008
06/04/2008
An employee of the Lackawanna Plaza Pathmark was attacked while outside the mall on his break on Monday, May 23, around 5:10 p.m., and he was taken to Mountainside Hospital bleeding from his nose and right ear, police said.
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| | Cops: Driver leaps from moving car
06/04/2008
With Montclair police cars tailing him, a man from East Orange jumped out of his moving car — which crashed unmanned into a telephone pole on Normal Avenue — then scaled a fence, crossed a creek and dashed through yards on Upper Mountain Avenue, polic
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| | Police briefs, May 15 to May 22, 2008
05/21/2008
A man’s face was slashed with a knife and he was stabbed in the back as he left Mango’s Reggae Café in the early morning hours on Sunday, May 18, and six men were arrested as officers tried dispersing a crowd of partygoers leaving the restaurant, pol
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| | Cops find battered children, charge mom with assault
05/21/2008
Officers responding to a report of a child being attacked in an Elm Street apartment found an 8-year-old boy in his bedroom, pressing a white towel filled with ice to his forehead, police said.
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| | Cyclist struck by car, and other police briefs
05/14/2008
A car rammed into a woman riding a bike at 12:43 p.m. last Wednesday, May 7, at the intersection of Claremont Avenue and Valley Road, sending the cyclist to the hospital with a broken leg and a head injury, police said.
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| | Cops raid Pine Street massage parlor
05/08/2008
A photo of a woman in black lingerie and high heels, sitting on a bed so her voluptuous profile is visible but her face is not, can be found on the Exhale Day Spa’s Web site after a few clicks lead to a link for “special requests.”
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| | Woman robbed after van runs out of gas, and other police briefs
05/08/2008
A woman from Bound Brook was robbed while standing on Glenridge Avenue, waiting for her cousin to find help after their van ran out of gas, police said.
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| | Police blotter 04.17
04/18/2008
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| | MSU student charged with threatening campus shooting
04/17/2008
Montclair State University police have arrested an 18-year-old student and charged him with threatening, through a message written on a desk, to commit a campus shooting on April 10.
Officers arrested Joseph Martic, of Fairview, this past Tuesday, April
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