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Two with plenty of firepower surrender to police after 7-hour standoff at Secaucus hotel NJ.com 3/15/2021 Ron Zeitlinger, nj.com
A Newark fugitive and a Pennsylvania woman, holed up in a Secaucus hotel room with a small cache of loaded rifles and handguns, appeared to be ready for a battle to the death Sunday night.
But thanks to negotiators and patience, both surrendered to police after a tense, seven-hour standoff, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said.
Rahim Harris, 42, and Haneefha White, 39, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, were arrested early Monday morning at the Extended Stay Hotel on Plaza Drive and charged with multiple weapons offenses and money laundering after police recovered nearly $37,000 in cash. White was also charged with drug offenses after ecstasy pill were recovered.
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A pair of fugitives were busted with a dead hand grenade, eight loaded weapons, more than $36,000 in cash, drugs and more during a 7-hour standoff that evacuated a North Jersey hotel Sunday night, authorities said Monday.
Rahim Harris, 42, of Newark, and Haneefha S. White, 39, of Johnstowns, PA, were arrested after a more than 7-hour standoff at the Extended Stay Hotel on Plaza Drive, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said.
Police received a tip around 7 p.m. saying that Harris who had been wanted out of Essex County on charges of aggravated assault was staying at the hotel.
As Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly deployed officers and assessed how to dislodge two heavily armed killers from a kosher grocery in last December s deadly mass shooting, he faced a major problem.
One of Kelly s officers managed to peek inside the shooters U-Haul van, which was parked on Martin Luther King Drive across from the grocery and in front of the Sacred Heart Catholic elementary school. Inside a backpack that had been strapped between the driver s and passenger s seats, the officer spotted a large pipe bomb.
The officer took the bomb from the backpack and laid it on the passenger seat of the van, police said. But the officer could not disarm the bomb. That delicate job fell to a team of bomb experts a task made all the more difficult because it had to be done amid a raging gunbattle.