TUESDAY, January 12

🔺​FAIRFIELD: WORKING FIRE AT PRINTING BUSINESS

Tuesday, Jan. 12
3:25pm
  • ​Fairfield Police Fairfield Fire Department at scene
  • Location: Clark Printing and Design
    • Both paper and chemicals present in building

3:33pm
  • Smoke showing in rear of building
  • Mutual Aid: Caldwell Fire Department, North Caldwell Fire Department, West Caldwell Fire Department
  • West Essex First Aid Squad responding
  • Essex County units responding with fire house coverage
  • North Caldwell Police at scene

3:51pm
  • Bulk of fire is knocked down
Images: Fairfield Fire Department

friDAY, January 8

🙏🏻 STATEMENT ON PASSING OF US CAPITOL POLICE, NJ NATIONAL GUARD STAFF SGT
​BRIAN D. SICKNICK, 42, OF SOUTH RIVER, NJ

NJ Governor Phil Murphy
Friday, Jan. 8, 2021​

“United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick embodied the selfless spirit of his native state. Officer Sicknick was a product of South River and a graduate of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools.

Before joining the Capitol Police, he was Staff Sergeant Sicknick with the New Jersey Air National Guard. He was a Fire Team Member and Leader with the 108th Security Force Squadron, 108th Wing, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and his six years of service included overseas deployments in support of Operation Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Tammy and I send our deepest condolences to Officer Sicknick’s family and friends, as well as to his United States Capitol Police colleagues and the Guardsmen and Guardswomen he served alongside. We thank him for his service to our nation.
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​Officer Sicknick gave his life protecting the United States Capitol, and by extension, our very democracy, from violent insurrection. His needless murder at the hands of a mob bent on overthrowing the Constitution he had dedicated his life to upholding is shocking. It is my fervent hope that the rioters whose actions directly contributed to his death are quickly identified and brought to justice.”
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IMAGE: NJ National Guard
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IMAGE: NJ National Guard

wednesDAY, January 6

🔺FBI SEEKS INFORMATION IDENTIFYING THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN WEDNESDAY'S ACTS OF RIOTING AND VIOLENCE
"Our goal is to preserve the public’s constitutional right to protest by protecting everyone from violence and other criminal activity."

TUESDAY, January 5

Benjamin Avrut, 35, of Maplewood Charged with Murder of his Mother Gwen Avrut, 70, of Maplewood
  • Maplewood Police responded to Gwen Avrut's South Orange Avenue home yesterday at 12:56pm and found her unresponsive and suffering from multiple serious injuries

monDAY, January 4

Fairfield Police Arrest Resident Nicholas Didio-Slaaen, 21, on Multiple Charges
The suspect reported to police that: 
  • He was not driving the car

  • He was actually in Morristown
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  • The Dodge Charger was actually in Toms River

SUNDAY, January 3

🔺FAIRFIELD: Ambulance crash
​into pole with injury

Sunday, Jan 3
10:20am
  • Horseneck Road near Hollywood Avenue
  • Fairfield Police at scene
  • Fairfield Fire Department responding
  • Ice Conditions: Essex DPW responding

friday, January 1

🔺FAIRFIELD: NEW YEARS EVE HOME BURGLARY

Thursday, Jan. 1
From Fairfield Police: 
  • Sand Road near Two Bridges Road
  • Wednesday, Dec. 31
    between 6pm to 8pm
  • Police request video footage of any suspicious activity
  • Attached image may be related to burglary

CONTACT:
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