UPDATE: The Bloomfield Schools Superintendent’s office has just confirmed that the lockdown was lifted at 2:45 p.m.
Several tipsters have contacted us with the news that Brookdale and Oakview Schools in Bloomfield have been locked down. They received the news by telephone message.
No confirmation yet, but The lockdown is probably related to a perp search reported by Breaking News Network at 2 p.m.
NJ| Essex| Bloomfield| *Perp Search*| 19 Bolten Pl| PD looking for 2 m/b suspects 1 wearing a brown hoodie, 2nd wearing a white hoodie. Suspects assaulted a male outside his home then entered the home confronting his wife about the safe. Suspects then fled without any proceeds. County K-9 requested|
An Facebook page for the Oakview School parents confirmed that the break-in and K-9 search on Bolten was the reason for the lockdown.
The incident sounds similar to one reported in the Montclair blotter today, in which two perpetrators, hiding their faces with scarves, broken into a home and stole money from a safe.
Can Bloomfield charge non resident criminals a $100 for committing crimes in Bloomfield.(if they get caught)
Now that’s an idea I think we can all support!
I sense a pattern here:
Feb. 9: A woman reported someone broke into her home on the 100 block of West Passaic Avenue via the rear door sometime between 5:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and reportedly stole a laptop computer, three watches and a safe containing $3,000 in cash.
Make it $1,000. Some traffic tickets are more than $100.