Wonder how this headline would have been written if these three stories happened in Downtown JC...

Calling a domestic incident between exes a "home invasion" is what Stephen Colbert would call "truthy".

It's where the money is !

Maybe it's the economy but Hoboken had a lot of crime today -- Guns, Knives, Black Masks, Holdups and Home Invasions...

Sock over gun in store holdup

AMY SARA CLARK
Jersey Journal
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

HOBOKEN - Police are looking for a masked man who tried to hold-up a First Street convenience store with a loaded sock, police said.

The man, who was wearing a black hoodie and a black mask covering his nose and mouth, showed up at the store on the 500 block of First Street just after 8 p.m. Sunday night, police said.

He held up something that looked like a gun covered by a sock, the 23-year-old clerk said.

He then asked the clerk to empty the register, police said.Then a customer arrived and the robber asked for a pack of cigarettes, police said.

As he moved to take the cigarettes, the clerk grabbed the sock, which felt as if a gun were underneath, police said. But the man punched the clerk and the robber fled, police said.

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'Threat' leads man's arrest

AMY SARA CLARK
Jersey Journal
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

HOBOKEN - A man was arrested after threatening an off-duty cop with a knife in a bar early Sunday morning, police said.

Cops were called to a bar near the intersection of Newark and Washington streets at 1:37 a.m. on reports of a fight, police said.

The off-duty officer said that when he and a female friend arrived at the bar, the man, later identified as 26-year-old Jeronimo Torres of Paterson, began using profanity and making hand gestures at the woman, police said.

When the off-duty cop asked him to stop and threatened to call security, Torres pulled out a knife and said "I'm going to (expletive) kill you," police said.

A security guard was able to take the knife from Torres and restrain him until cops arrived, police said.

But when they tried to arrest him, Torres ran south on Washington Street, police said.

Cops caught him four blocks later and arrested him at gunpoint, police said.

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Arrest ends home siege after bloody love fight

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By AMY SARA CLARK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

HOBOKEN - She didn't want to be his Valentine and he didn't take it well, police said.

Police said they arrested a jilted ex-boyfriend Sunday who punched and threatened to kill his girlfriend and then barricaded himself inside her Sixth Street apartment and tried to burn it down after she escaped with her 4-year-old child.

Bernard Olmo Jr., 31, of Jersey City, was charged with making terrorist threats, two weapon possession charges, two counts of aggravated assault, burglary, resisting arrest and two counts of throwing bodily fluid (spitting) at law enforcement personnel, police said.

Police were called to the Sixth Street apartment at 5:02 a.m. on a report of a disturbance, reports said.

When they arrived, Olmo had already barricaded himself in the apartment of the 30-year-old victim, reports said.

The victim told cops her ex-boyfriend had pushed his way into her apartment and yelled "If I can't have you no one else can. I'll kill you and then kill myself," said Hoboken Police Capt. Anthony Falco.

The woman said Olmo punched her in the face and she and her 4-year-old child escaped to a neighbor's apartment and locked themselves in, reports said.

When police forced their way into the victim's apartment, they saw someone had turned on the cooking gas and had tried to rip the stove away from the wall, Falco said.

Olmo then barricaded himself in the bedroom and threw drinking glasses at cops as they began to push the door open, and finally lunged at the officers holding an 8-inch knife, Falco said.

The cops retreated into the hallway and waited for backup.

Olmo shouted he wanted to commit "suicide by cop" by having police shoot him, Falco said.

After a few minutes, the some half-dozen Hoboken police were joined by nine Port Authority cops who tried to open the door. Olmo threw more glass and furniture at them, attempted to stab them, and set a fire in the bedroom, Falco said.

Port Authority officers finally charged the room using protective shields and arrested Olmo. The fire was quickly put out by Hoboken firefighters, Falco said.

As he was being placed in a police car, Olmo spat in the faces of two officers, Falco said.

When Olmo was discovered to be bleeding from a stab wound to his stomach, he was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center, where he was recovering from surgery as of Sunday afternoon, Falco said.