Foreclosure of 88-year-old leads to standoff
Authorities say a son held Bergen County sheriff’s officers at gunpoint as they tried to evict his 88-year-old mother from her foreclosed home.
Officials say John Brennan threatened two officers with a .22-caliber handgun.
Officers talked to the 60-year-old, who surrendered after about five minutes when a SWAT team arrived Tuesday.
Beatrice Brennan had refinanced her two-bedroom, $250,000 home and had fallen behind on payments. The house was sold at a sheriff’s auction in May. Real estate agent Donovan Stewart tells The Record of Bergen County he’s “never had anything like this happen before.”