FBI nominee Comey was held captive as a Bergen teen
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Last updated: Thursday May 30, 2013, 11:56 PM
BY SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
The Record
He could be the country’s next top crime fighter, overseeing investigations into the most serious threats facing the nation.
But James Comey — President Obama’s pick to be the director of the FBI — got an unwelcomed introduction to law and order as a teenager in Allendale more than 35 years ago, during a brief and dangerous brush with a notorious criminal who had all of Bergen County on edge.
A man dubbed “the Ramsey rapist” held 15-year-old Comey and his younger brother at gunpoint after breaking into their Allendale home on an October day in 1977, one of a string of break-ins that included the rape of two area baby sitters. The Comey brothers, locked in a bathroom while the intruder searched the home, escaped through a window, only to encounter the man again on their lawn. The brothers ran back inside the house, locked the doors and called police, setting off a massive manhunt.
