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A 17-year-old Lodi boy was caught carrying a loaded gun at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus over the weekend, authorities said.
Acting on a tip, Paramus Police Officers Gil Maynard and Officer Diego Cruz were joined by security officers in finding the teen with a group of youths shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
They seized a fully-loaded 9mm SCCY Firearms CPX-2 pistol and took the boy who was carrying it in a fanny pack into custody without incident, the chief said.
His parents came to police headquarters before police gave the boy a delinquency complaint charging him with unlawful handgun possession and sent him to the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Facility in Teterboro to await a hearing in the Family Part of Superior Court in Hackensack.
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Today, the state Senate has a quorum call, which means the governor
must act on a number of Senate-originated bills that have been sitting on his desk for more than 45 days. That includes the now-famous bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes, including public corruption offenses.
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A Paramus police officer found an out-of-state duo carrying a loaded gun, nearly five dozen pills and several bags of pot for sale after stopping their speeding sedan on Route 17, authorities said.
Naqwain Johnson, 36, of Schenectady, NY and Justin Hawkins, 30, of Dallas, NC were in an unregistered 2007 Buick Lacrosse stopped by Officer Michael Mordaga on the southbound highway near the entrance to the southbound Garden State Parkway shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday.
They’d been smoking pot in the car and Hawkins, who was driving, had a suspended license, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
Mordaga searched the vehicle after backup Officers William Stallone, Kevin Osback, Matthew Mullick and Clario Sampson arrived, the chief said.
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HERO: A Paramus police lieutenant saved the life of a missing 42-year-old borough man with special needs when he found him lying shoeless and gloveless in the snow in a nearby park.
Temperatures were in the teens when what became an intensive search for the Spring Valley Road man began around 6 a.m.
They d only reached the low 20s when Detective Lt. John Devine, who was among those searching for him, found the man in nearby Van Saun Park several hours later, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
He was taken to New Bridge Medical Center for observation, the chief said.
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Police responding to a report of a man who pulled a pistol during a dispute at a Paramus mall grabbed two fleeing Brooklyn residents with a stolen handgun, authorities said.
The gunman and a companion fled following the Christmas Eve confrontation outside the Louis Vuitton store at the Garden State Plaza, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
Responding Detective Jon Umanzor and Officers Jon Henderson and Diego Cruz spotted the pair on the mall s second level near Nieman Marcus about 20 minutes later, he said.
Seeing them, the duo fled down an escalator, Ehrenberg said.
One handed a cross-body bag containing the gun to the other, who dropped it, the chief said.