SWAT teams surrounded the building at 451 Frelinghuysen Avenue on Friday afternoon. It is listed as an address of several manufacturing and shipping companies, and is about a block away from the Newark-Liberty International Airport transit station.
Police was called in around 1 pm local time, after reports of a "person with a gun" inside the building.
Two people were evacuated from the roof by police, WABC reported, noting that they were the new owners of the building who were apparently confronted by a squatter armed with a shotgun.
Video from the scene showed a Bearcat armored vehicle parked behind the building, with SWAT team members taking an African-American man into custody.
Comment: They didn't kill him or blow him up with a robot bomb?
The drama unfolded mere minutes away from the Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). A major hub for United Airlines, Newark is the second-busiest airport in the New York City area, serving 37.5 million passengers in 2015.
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