Teen Threatened Another Teen with Ice Pick in Boulder Run Fight, Cops Say

An Oakland teenager was charged with threatening another juvenile with an ice pick during a fight in the Boulder Run parking lot Sunday night, according to Wyckoff Police.

Cops received a call just after 10 p.m. Sunday saying that someone was threatening another person with a knife at the shopping center on Franklin Avenue, according to Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox. 

Responding officers encountered a large group in the parking lot, many of whom fled on foot, police said. 

"The investigation determined that a fight had started between two Oakland boys, ages 15 and 16, when the older youth pulled out an ice pick, and allegedly held it to the other boy's chest and threatened to stab him," Fox said. 

A Bergen County Police K-9 unit and other area police agencies were contacted to assist in searching for the boy involved, Fox said. 

Cops were unable to find the juvenile initially, but he was identified and subsequently picked up at his home, police said. 

He was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and making terroristic threats, and complaints will be heard in Bergen County Juvenile Court. 

The ice pick was recovered the next day in a garden bed on the Boulder Run property, police reported Wednesday. 

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