Ex-Cop Accused of Firing Gun in Morristown Fight

Former Paterson officer allegedly fired shot into air, pointed weapon at another man on Abbett Avenue.

A former Paterson police officer was charged Friday for allegedly firing a gun into the air and pointing the weapon at another person during an altercation on Abbett Avenue following a verbal dispute earlier that evening outside a Morristown bar, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said. Dustin Bradley, 27, of Rockaway, was charged with second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and third-degree receiving stolen property stemming from an alleged incident on May 28. No one was injured in the incident, the prosecutor's office said. Bradley, who was hired as a Paterson police officer in 2007 before he was laid off in April 2011, was arrested during a motor vehicle stop in …

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