NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF
A SWAT team was justified in shooting and killing a former UPS employee as he chased at an ex-girlfriend at his old job, firing a handgun at her, after taking her and another woman hostage, New Jersey's attorney general said Wednesday.
The beaten, bleeding woman had broken away from William J. Owens, 39, of Sicklerville (Camden County) during what had been a 3½-hour standoff with police.
Owens chased her, firing shots from a 9mm handgun, as the woman ran out an employee door into the parking lot of the UPS Mail Innovations facility on Birch Creek Road in Logan Township on Jan. 14, 2019, sta…
Duo Attempted To Scam Long Island Man Out Of $6,500, Police Say
Two men attempted to pull a fast one on an elderly Long Island man, who alerted police, leading to their arrests.
A 74-year-old man who lives out of state was contacted by two men in Nassau County on Friday, Feb. 7, who stated that his son had been arrested and required bail money for his release, police said.
According to Nassau County Police, the victim was instructed to put $6,500 in cash into a package to be sent to the UPS facility in Uniondale. The victim became suspicious and proceeded to contact police.
An investigation was launched, and detectives coordinated with UPS security to …
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd
The tour bus owned by Rockaway-based Z & D Tours in an early-morning crash that killed five people had no passenger seatbelts, federal officials said Monday.
The bus' driver, Shuang Qing Feng, lost control and hitting a concrete median along the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Homendy said.
The bus shot up an embankment, flipped on its side and then back into the barrier, at which point a FedEx truck slammed into the bus's undercarriage, she said.
Feng, of Queens, N.Y., Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of The Br…
Teaneck PD: Drunk UPS Driver Crashes, Flees, Leaving Injured Woman Behind
A drunken UPS driver from Secaucus who crashed his truck in Teaneck jumped out and ran away, leaving his injured helper pinned inside, said police who captured him a short time later.
A Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit tracked down Matthew Montgomery, 35, who was found hiding in a backyard on Park Avenue by Teaneck and Bogota police, Capt. Michael Ferrante said.
Montgomery’s truck sideswiped two cars and slammed into a tree nearby just after 9 p.m. Monday, Ferrante said.
Montgomery, who’d been driving with a suspended license, left behind not only packages but also his 24-year-old helper, …
