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Bomb Threat in Cliffside Park Under Investigation

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Cliffside Park NJ, according to Intelligence and Counterterrorism Units the bomb threat was reported around 12:41 p.m. Friday near Anderson and Kearney avenues.

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New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness : Email Containing Bomb Threat Hoax

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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness is aware of the emails being circulated containing hoax bomb threats. At this time, there are no known or credible threats to New Jersey. We remain in contact with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners.

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness encourages all residents and visitors to report suspicious activity to our Counterterrorism Watch desk by calling 1-866-4-SAFE-NJ or by emailing tips@njohsp.gov. State of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy New Jersey OAG New Jersey State Police

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NYPD : Statement Regarding the Suspicious Package Sent to CNN

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New York NY, Today NYPD and all of our law enforcement partners responded to reports of a suspicious package at CNN. Responding officers identified a device that appeared to be a live explosive device. The NYPD Bomb Squad responded, secured the device, and safely removed it using a Total Containment Vessel (TCV) to Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx for further investigation. Additionally, an envelope containing white powder was discovered as part of that original packaging. The powder is being investigated as well.

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Bomb Threat Closes Bergen Community College

Bomb Threat Closes Bergen Community College

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May 5,2017

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Paramus NJ, A bomb threat forced the evacuation and temporary closure of Bergen Community College’s Paramus campus on the morning of Thursday, 05/04. Paramus PD, EMS, FD, and Rescue Squad responded along with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division. The campus was closed from just before 11 AM until 2 PM.

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According to the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, email threats were received against three Bergen County sites , the courthouse, the County administration building and  Lyndhurst and Paramus campuses of Bergen Community College .

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Bergen Courthouse and Colleges Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat

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May 4,2017
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Hackensack NJ, according to the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, email threats were received against three Bergen County sites , the courthouse, the County administration building and  Lyndhurst and Paramus campuses of Bergen Community College . The threatened sites were evacuated at 11am this morning.

Bomb-sniffing dogs have been brought into the buildings by the Bergen Bomb squad. The Hackensack Fire Department responded to the Bergen County courthouse.

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Shops at Riverside mall in Hackensack reopens after bomb threat

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DECEMBER 12, 2015, 2:12 PM    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2015, 6:47 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN AND HANNAN ADELY
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD

A false bomb threat led to the three-hour evacuation of The Shops at Riverside mall in Hackensack on the penultimate Saturday in the holiday shopping season.

As authorities investigated the threat — scrawled on a bathroom wall, graffiti-style — hundreds of jittery shoppers had to abandon their meals and purchases, and were forced out of the complex and into the parking lot, alongside mall workers.

Hackensack Police summoned the Bergen County bomb squad and ordered the evacuation after a security officer discovered the message written with a marker near a urinal in a lower-level men’s room at around 1 p.m., said Hackensack Police Capt. Timothy Lloyd.

Witnesses said several hundred customers and employees emptied out of the mall in an urgent but orderly fashion as both sound and light alarms went off.

A search by bomb-sniffing dogs and bomb-squad officers found no explosives and the mall — at the intersection of Route 4 and Hackensack Avenue — re-opened around 4 p.m., Lloyd said.

The evacuation also led police to divert traffic on Hackensack Avenue onto Route 4, said Anthony Cureton, a spokesman for the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office.

Some two hours into the evacuation, most people had cleared out of the area. On the grass at the outskirts of the complex’s parking lot, though, small groups of employees lingered waiting for their stores and restaurants to reopen. And some shoppers also stayed behind, forced to wait because, they said, authorities wouldn’t allow them to retrieve their vehicles from the mall’s multi-tiered parking garage before the all-clear was given.

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