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TRIBUTE: When they consider true heroes, crimefighters in North Jersey invariably include a lawman from just across the state line who single-handedly captured a trio of self-proclaimed revolutionaries after they killed two police officers and a guard following a $1.6 million armored car robbery.
Alan Colsey, who died Wednesday at 69, had an impressive law enforcement career. He helped Rockland law enforcement computerize police records, get mobile data terminals in patrol cars and establish a radio system for first responders.
Yet it was the Nyack native’s heroism on Oct. 20, 1981 that most remember.
Black Liberation Army members Judith Clark, David Gilbert and Samuel Brown gunned down Brinks guard Peter Paige during the robbery at the Nanuet Mall that day.