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13 hours ago
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Sheriff's officer dies after fall from 9th-story window in Jersey City
A sheriff's officer is dead after he fell from a window on the ninth floor of an administrative building in Jersey City, officials said. The tragedy unfolded Friday morning at the Hudson County Administration Building, which includes several county government offices, including the sheriff's office, according to a statement from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. Witness Steve Roosen said he was nearby when the officer — who has since been identified as 29-year-old Justin Rivera — plunged to his death just after 9:20 a.m. The Hudson County Administration Building in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Google)'I heard glass shatter and then immediately looked up, and saw a guy coming straight down,' Roosen told CBS News. 'I saw the officers perform CPR, maybe, three times, and then just stop.' Rivera, a Hudson County sheriff's officer who was on duty at the time, was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead around 10 a.m. 'Today is one of the saddest and most horrific days that the Hudson County Sheriff's Office has ever experienced,' Sheriff Frank Schillari said. 'We lost an excellent officer today and an outstanding young man.' An investigation into Rivera's death is ongoing, but authorities at this time believe it to be accidental in nature. Rivera, a former police officer in Bayonne, leaves behind a young daughter.
CBS News
18 hours ago
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- CBS News
Man in custody after standoff with law enforcement at Oakland County apartment complex
A man is in custody after a standoff with law enforcement at an Oakland County, Michigan, apartment complex Saturday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office. A SWAT team was in the area of East 13 Mile Road near John R. Road in Madison Heights just before 3 p.m. for the report of a barricaded gunman. At that time, safety officials with the city sent an alert to residents asking people to avoid the area. The sheriff's office said in an update on Facebook at 4 p.m. that the man had been taken into custody. No one was injured. On Friday in Allen Park, a man who police believed was carrying a knife was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff at a Marathon gas station. Officials say no one was hurt in Friday's incident. This is a developing story. Stay with CBS News Detroit for the latest information.
The Guardian
20 hours ago
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- The Guardian
Bee-ware: truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border
Officials near the US border were abuzz after being relentlessly attacked on Friday morning by a swarm of fugitives: honeybees had escaped after a truck carrying hives overturned near the Canadian border. About 250m honeybees flew free of the truck around 4am a few miles south of Canada. The truck that was transporting around 70,000lbs of hives and honeybees rolled over on a road in north-western Washington state. Local sheriff deputies and bee experts swarmed to the scene, where they removed the box hives to help recover and rescue as many bees as possible. The driver of the truck was not injured. Hours later, officials could not bee-lieve that the bees began to swarm and sting the deputies. Some sheriff deputies took refuge in their patrol cars to avoid the stinging swarm. According to a sheriff spokesperson, the driver was neither drunk nor buzzed, rather, the driver likely did not navigate a sharp turn well enough, causing the trailer to roll. This article includes content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Officials warned the public to bee careful and avoid the area, to prevent getting stung. Several beekeeping experts are developing plans to 'save as many bees as possible', the spokesperson told the Seattle Times. The current plan includes closing a road for a couple of days while the bees calm down, bee-have and re-enter their hives, which will then be gathered and secured. The sting operation may be successful, a bee expert told the New York Times, saying that honeybees are social and will likely settle close to the truck. 'Thank you to the wonderful community of beekeepers: over two dozen showed up to help ensure the rescue of millions of pollinating honey bees would be as successful as possible,' the sheriff's office said in a post, as reported by the Associated Press. Honeybee colonies are important and crucial to the world's food supply by pollinating crops. But they are fragile and have been placed under further stress in recent years by a number of factors, including insecticides, parasites and the climate crisis.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
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NJ sheriff's officer dies after fall from 9th-story window in Jersey City
A sheriff's officer is dead after he fell from a window on the ninth floor of an administrative building in Jersey City, officials said. The tragedy unfolded Friday morning at the Hudson County Administration Building, which includes several county government offices, including the sheriff's office, according to a statement from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. Witness Steve Roosen said he was nearby when the officer — who has since been identified as 29-year-old Justin Rivera — plunged to his death just after 9: 20 a.m. 'I heard glass shatter and then immediately looked up, and saw a guy coming straight down,' he told CBS News. 'I saw the officers perform CPR, maybe, three times, and then just stop.' He said he then 'saw two heads looking down' from a broken window, 'as everyone was coming to the scene.' Rivera, a Hudson County sheriff's officer, was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. 'Today is one of the saddest and most horrific days that the Hudson County Sheriff's Office has ever experienced,' Sheriff Frank Schillari said. 'We lost an excellent officer today and an outstanding young man.' An investigation into Rivera's death is ongoing, but authorities at this time believe it to be accidental in nature.
Yahoo
a day ago
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Federal lawsuit claims sheriff and employees retaliated against Portage County man
A Portage County man has filed a federal lawsuit against the county's sheriff and two sheriff's office employees alleging retaliation over claims the man posted on Facebook. The lawsuit, filed by William Lane in U.S. Sixth District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on May 6, names Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, Robert James and Michael Davis, along with Portage County, as defendants. According to a complaint filed with the lawsuit, James is a corporal and Davis a captain with the sheriff's office. Court records did not identify legal representation for the defendants as of May 30. A phone message seeking comment from the sheriff's office was not immediately returned. The lawsuit was filed by William Lane, a Diamond resident in Palmyra Township. According to the 12-page complaint, Lane wrote a series of posts he called "The Bad Bruce Exhibit" on Facebook in which he accused Zuchowski, James, and Davis of being "dishonest, vindictive, incompetent, and corrupt." Lane's posts, according to the complaint, included allegations of various acts of wrongdoing against Davis, Zuchowski and unnamed sheriff's office employees. Lane also posted about a recently settled civil suit the cities of Kent, Ravenna and Streetsboro filed against the sheriff over the distribution of money and assets that had been owned by the defunct Portage County Drug Task Force that the cities and sheriff's office were members of; Zuchowski urging "supporters to record names and addresses of persons who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential election;" and a claim that Zuchowski kept a "hit list" of people he saw as political enemies. Lane also encouraged Portage County voters to support Zuchowski's opponent, Jon Barber, in the November election, during which Zuchowski ultimately won a second four-year term. The complaint alleges that someone identifying himself as "Jonathan Porter" posted false allegations about Lane on a Facebook page entitled "Will Lane Exhibit," which has since been deleted. The allegations included that Lane is a narcotics user and dealer and a "woman beater." Also posted were Lane's phone number and email and home addresses, the complaint alleges. The complaint alleges that "James, acting with Zuchowski's knowledge and consent, actually posted the 'Will Lane Exhibit,' and created Jonathan Porter to conceal James', and Zuchowski's involvement with the publication of the Will Lane Exhibit." The complaint also alleges that "Davis, acting with the knowledge and consent of Zuchowski, contacted an Ohio State Agency to inquire about the possibility of cancelling Lane's license to grow industrial hemp." Lane is licensed by the state to grow hemp on his property for the production of legal CBD oil. Lane's complaint alleges all of these actions were retaliation for Lane's posts, which the complaint asserts "are true," and therefore protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The complaint says that the alleged actions by the defendants "caused Lane to suffer substantial emotional and psychological distress." The complaint alleges that the defendants retaliated against him for exercising his constitutional rights; Portage County is liable because it "created a culture of corruption in the Sheriff's Office, and permitted that culture of corruption to embed itself in the Sheriff's Office, and to grow;" and that Lane was libeled, slandered and defamed. Lane is requesting a total of more than $5 million in punitive and compensatory damages, as well as court costs. Lane previously sued Portage County and three sheriff's deputies in connection with an allegation that his civil rights were violated during an April 2023 traffic stop in Ravenna Township. A federal judge dismissed the suit in April. More: Federal judge dismisses hemp farmer's lawsuit against Portage County, sheriff's deputies Reporter Jeff Saunders can be reached at jsaunders@ This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Portage County man claims sheriff and employees retaliated against him
