Crime & Safety
Police Save Suicidal Man's Life On The GWB
Is the 63rd time this year police have intervened during a suicide attempt.
FORT LEE, N.J. — Port Authority Police saved the life of a man they said was going to jump off the George Washington Bridge Friday afternoon.
At about 4:35 p.m., police found a 35-year-old man on the south walk near the New Jersey tower, said Joe Pentangelo, a Port Authority spokesman. Police took the uninjured man into custody.
The Hackensack man was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus.
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It is the 63rd suicide attempt from the bridge police have intervened on during this year, Pentangelo said.
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