Posted on 03/23/2005 10:10:37 AM PST by sassbox
New Brunswick 'hostage' incident probed
Building resident talks out his kids after rape call causes standoff
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 BY TOM HAYDON AND SULEMAN DIN Star-Ledger Staff
A 911 call from a girl who claimed she was raped and held hostage in a New Brunswick apartment house sparked a six-hour police standoff in the heart of the city yesterday that ended when three people were taken into custody. By evening, however, police had not made any arrests and would not say whether a rape occurred in the third-floor apartment at 226 Seaman St.
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Along the same bad line...
"Seaman St."
"Bad jokes, anyone?"
If you have ever been on Seaman St in New Brunswick, you would realize that no jokes are necessary. It is one.
Ping, the next chapter.
I don't understand the new spin of a prank aspect at all. One of the perps got on the phone to 911 and threatened to shoot anyone that approached the home.
So how was it a prank?
This explains the 'hoax'. It's a game!
*****
Cops are fearful 'bombing' is fatal attraction to players
It's a game called "bombing," and police from New Jersey to Washington state fear it could turn deadly.
People make bogus 911 emergency calls -- sometimes using Internet technology to mimic the phone number of their unwary target -- and then boast online about how many SWAT team officers rush to the fake crisis with guns drawn.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1111643738249840.xml
Absolutely, I agree.
A big chunk of the story is yet to be told, IMO.
I made a mental note to check out that blackplanet.com website later on.
more news on the situation
Three people released from custody in New Brunswick standoff
3/23/2005, 8:41 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The three people authorities took into custody after a purported hostage-taking in an apartment house here were released by early Wednesday morning, the house's owner said.
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The girl police thought they were rescuing from an armed rape, and the two young men they thought were her assailants were released without charges, said Richard Simon, the homeowner.
"It doesn't seem to anyone there was anyone held hostage there," Simon said.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan did not return several phone messages seeking comment Wednesday. In a written statement issued Wednesday, Kaplan said the events surrounding the incident were still unclear, and no arrests had been made.
One of the young men released from custody was the girl's brother, said Simon, who has rented an apartment to their father, David Wilson, for about two years. Wilson's two teenage children have lived with him for about a year, Simon said.
Police barricaded a city block and surrounded the three-story apartment house for much of Tuesday after a girl telephoned authorities at 10:48 a.m. to report that she was handcuffed to a bed and being raped.
That call was interrupted by a man who hung up the phone, Kaplan said in a brief press conference at the scene Tuesday. A few minutes later a man inside the house calling himself Carlos phoned police.
"He said he had weapons, and if anyone came near the house, he would not only kill the child but also anyone who attempted to gain access to the house," Kaplan said.
Simon, who watched much of the drama unfold from his law office next door to the house, said Wilson got his children and the third person to surrender at around 4:25 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses saw the two young men taken away in handcuffs, and the girl led away by police.
Simon, who described Wilson as a good tenant, said the overwhelming feeling among tenants and neighbors Wednesday was relief that no one was hurt or killed.
"But there was a lot of inconvenience, a lot of waste of manpower and resources," Simon said. "We're still trying to find out how this happened and why this happened."
Two phone numbers listed for Wilson were disconnected Wednesday.
Police barricaded a city block and surrounded the three-story apartment house for much of Tuesday after a girl telephoned authorities at 10:48 a.m. to report that she was handcuffed to a bed and being raped.
That call was interrupted by a man who hung up the phone, Kaplan said in a brief press conference at the scene Tuesday. A few minutes later a man inside the house calling himself Carlos phoned police.
"He said he had weapons, and if anyone came near the house, he would not only kill the child but also anyone who attempted to gain access to the house," Kaplan said.
You see this???
This case is strange, aren't there any recorded transcripts of the phone calls made to the police.
That call from 'Carlos' was to 911. Those are recorded.
Hence my headache.
ping
Mar 25, 2005 11:40 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEWARK) A second suspect in a telephone hoax that sent a SWAT team to a New Brunswick house, fearing a girl was being raped by an armed kidnapper, was arrested early Friday in Connecticut, police said.
Wadu Jackson, 20, of Irvington, was located late Thursday night by police in Hartford, Conn., and arrested early Friday on a fugitive warrant, a spokesman for the Hartford Police Department said.
Jackson and an Arlington, Tex. woman, Fatin A. Ward, face charges from Tuesday's prank call to police in New Brunswick that resulted in a massive armed response to a house near Rutgers University that tied up the surrounding neighborhood for six hours.
Before she was arrested Thursday at her home, Ward told The Associated Press she was engaged in a telephone chat line game called "bombing" in which callers report fake emergencies at other people's addresses, then watch how many law enforcement officers respond.
She said she meant no harm and that the game got out of hand, but the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office charged her and Jackson later in the day with conspiracy, initiating a false public alarm, and making a fictitious report to police.
Both suspects are expected to be extradited to New Jersey sometime within the next week, authorities said.
A registered sex offender in Texas, Ward had been charged in Arlington on Feb. 18 with failing to notify police of her new address.
A month later, after the Union, N.J. police department said Ward was making prank calls to them, Texas authorities moved to revoke her bail because she was continuing to commit crimes, said Christy Gilfour, an Arlington police spokeswoman. It was that bond revocation order on which Ward was arrested Thursday.
Ward is suspected of calling in prank emergency calls to police departments in Union, and Belleville, as well as several others in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
"She did the same thing with us," said Georgetown, S.C. police Sgt. Jimmy Burke. "She called in different kinds of threats, people with guns, hostages. We suspect her in calls to our schools with a bunch of threats. We cleared the schools several times because of her."
Ward lived in Georgetown for about five years, Burke said.
Georgetown police have eight arrest warrants for Ward, but say she has made more calls than that. On several instances, Burke said, Ward called in as many as five bogus emergencies in a single day, but only a single complaint was filed treating them all as one occurrence for legal purposes, he said.
Because of the many jurisdictions involved in the case, the FBI may join the investigation, a spokesman for the agency's Newark field office said.
This idiot girl needs to be put away for a long time. And her boyfriend Wadu too.
Ward needs to be put away for a very long time.
bump!
Bump!
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