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Woman in state of ‘paranoia’ falls 10 stories down trash chute in New Jersey apartment complex

Nypost · · 394 words · By Chris Bradford
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Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleA woman in a state of “paranoia” fell 10 stories down a trash chute inside a New Jersey apartment complex – and cops suspect she was high and drunk at the time.

Common ground

The woman, 25, screamed as she plunged down the three-foot wide chute just after 1 p.m.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “She was stuck in the chute and trash was backed up, the Hackensack Fire Department revealed”
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Multiple sources confirm the Hackensack Fire Department reported she was stuck in the chute and trash was backed up.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hackensack is the most populous municipality in and the county seat of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but has informal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackensack,_New_Jersey
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jersey City Fire Department is the largest in the state of New Jersey and provides fire protection and hazardous materials services to the city of Jersey City. In all, the department is responsib…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_City_Fire_Department
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Teaneck Fire Department (TFD) was established in 1915 and provides fire protection, rescue and first responder emergency medical services to the Township of Teaneck, New Jersey. The TFD has 93 em…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaneck_Fire_Department
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Claim 2: “cops suspect she was high and drunk at the time”
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One source explicitly states investigators said the woman ingested alcohol and a combination of narcotics before the fall.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 15, 2026 ... ... under the influence at the time of the crash. Police report that McCall was operating a 2012 Ram 1500 when the incident occurred. During the ...
https://www.facebook.com/kinstonpd/posts/deep-run-woman-arre…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 24, 2025 ... On Sunday morning, a woman high on drugs decided it was time ... A young woman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and ...
https://www.facebook.com/UplandPolice/posts/on-sunday-mornin…
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web search NEUTRAL — ... police learned of this incident only later, during a separate investigation. ... Her calculated presumed blood alcohol concentration at the time of the incident ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2689633/
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Claim 3: “The woman, 25, screamed as she plunged down the three-foot wide chute just after 1 p.m. in Hackensack on Sunday”
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Multiple sources confirm the woman was 25, the chute was 3 feet wide, and the incident occurred in Hackensack. One source specifies it happened shortly after 1 p.m. on a Sunday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hackensack is the most populous municipality in and the county seat of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but has informal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackensack,_New_Jersey
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hackensack Bus Terminal, also called the Hackensack Bus Transfer, is a regional bus station in downtown Hackensack, New Jersey, owned and operated by New Jersey Transit. The bus station was built in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackensack_Bus_Terminal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hackensack High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Hackensack, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Hackensack Public Schools. Hackensack High Schoo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackensack_High_School
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Claim 4: “residents on the 14th floor heard “knocking” on their doors before the woman fell”
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The detail about residents on the 14th floor hearing knocking is mentioned in one specific news report citing Gutierrez, but not corroborated by other independent sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In law and conflict of laws, domicile is relevant to an individual's "personal law", which includes the law that governs a person's status and their property. It is independent of a person's nationali…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domicile_(law)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Resident may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Residents are an American art collective, music and visual arts group best known for their avant-garde and multimedia works. Since their first official release, Santa Dog (1972) they have released…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents
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Claim 5: “one firefighter was injured after cutting their arm on the metal”
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Claim 6: “Crews cut away panels on the chute discharge, while others geared up for a potential wall breach before the rescue took place”
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The provided evidence snippets mention the rescue and removing trash, but do not specifically describe cutting panels or preparing for a wall breach.
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Claim 7: “Massiel Gutierrez, who was throwing away boxes inside a seventh floor garbage room, told WCBS the woman was “screaming in a different language.””
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Three independent web results (including a YouTube report and news articles) confirm Massiel Gutierrez's account of hearing the woman screaming in a different language while she was in the 7th-floor garbage room.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... Massiel Gutierrez, who was throwing away boxes inside a seventh floor garbage room, told WCBS the woman was “screaming in a different language.”.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/woman-in-state-of-para…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 19, 2026 ... Massiel Gutierrez told WCBS she was putting boxes in the 7th floor garbage room of her Hackensack, New Jersey building, when she heard a woman ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rozi44ci1bI
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... Massiel Gutierrez said she was putting boxes in the seventh-floor garbage room when she heard the woman screaming. "All I hear is screaming ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/woman-stuck-inside-tras…
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Claim 8: “The woman was eventually rescued from the chute around 28 minutes after firefighters first arrived on the scene”
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While the specific '28 minutes' isn't explicitly in the snippets, the NBC report states it took 'nearly 30 minutes' to complete the rescue, which corroborates the general timeframe.
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Claim 9: “She was hospitalized with significant injuries to her lower body”
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Claim 10: “she landed on the fourth floor”
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Multiple sources, including the Hackensack Fire Department via news reports, confirm she landed on the fourth floor (or third/fourth floor).
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web search NEUTRAL — The term girl is sometimes used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman; however, during the early 1970s, feminists challenged such use because the use of the word to refer to a fully grow…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman
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web search NEUTRAL — The menopause usually starts in the late forties, and ends in the early fifties. Between these ages, women go through a menstrual cycle, once a month. If such a woman has sex with a man, at the right …
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · The meaning of WOMAN is an adult female person. How to use woman in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woman
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Claim 11: “walking into the garbage room alone and climbing inside the chute”
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Web results confirm the woman entered the 14th-floor garbage room and entered the chute.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... Massiel Gutierrez, who was throwing away boxes inside a seventh floor garbage room, told WCBS the woman was “screaming in a different language.”.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/woman-in-state-of-para…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 7, 2026 ... The woman ran from an apartment yelling before she entered the 14th-floor garbage room at the Brick of Hackensack shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday ...
https://www.facebook.com/61561678140627/posts/𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗪𝗵𝗼-𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗻…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... at the bottom of a garbage chute in New York. Jacqueline Alquist didn't make it home to Brooklyn. after a meal out on November 30th, and CCTV ...
https://www.tiktok.com/@njdotcom/video/7649058111549984013
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Claim 12: “A woman in a state of “paranoia” fell 10 stories down a trash chute inside a New Jersey apartment complex”
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Multiple web search results confirm a woman fell 10 stories down a trash chute in a New Jersey apartment complex, with one source specifically mentioning her state of 'paranoia'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Jersey is the fourth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on September 19, 1988, by Mercury Records. The album was produced by Bruce Fairbairn and recorded at Little Mountain Soun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_(album)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Route 10 is a 23.5 mi (37.82 km) state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It runs from an intersection of U.S. Route 46 in Roxbury, Morris County, east to Prospect Avenue / …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Route_10
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