Armed Orange Resident Allegedly Threatened His Child’s Mother On Labor Day: Police

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Sheriff’s officers arrested an Orange resident after he allegedly brandished a gun and threatened his child’s mother on Labor Day, authorities say.

According to the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, officers from the department’s Patrol Division were conducting quality of life operations in the area of West Side Park in Newark on Monday evening when they were flagged down on 17th Avenue by a female who stated that that her child’s father threatened her at gunpoint.

The woman told police that the suspect, Brian Wolfe, 29, of Orange, allegedly arrived on the scene riding in the passenger seat of a 2004 Kia van, brandishing a handgun and “threatening her with bodily harm,” authorities said.

Officers pulled over the suspect vehicle a few minutes later at the intersection of Springfield Avenue and South 12th Street, police stated. When the officers approached the van, they allegedly smelled the odor of marijuana and ordered Wolfe and the driver out of the vehicle.

At that time, one of the officers saw a loaded, .38 caliber Rossi revolver jammed between the front passenger seat and the center console, police said. During a search, officers also found Wolfe in possession of a zip-lock bag containing an unspecified amount of marijuana, police stated.

Authorities charged Wolfe with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, possession of illegal hollow point ammunition and possession of a controlled dangerous substance. He was assigned a $100,000 bail and remanded to the Essex County Jail.

The driver of the Kia was not charged and was released, authorities said.

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