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'Just Take Me To Jail,' Man With Meth Tells North Jersey Cops
A Hackettstown man was arrested after he was allegedly found with a meth pipe sitting on an unmarked police car asking officers to take him to jail.
Officers found Cody Zeigler, 27, sitting on the hood of an unmarked vehicle at the Hackettstown Police Department around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, they said.
Zeigler remarked, “just take me to jail,” before pointing to a pipe with suspected meth residue that he put on the vehicle’s hood, according to police.
He was then arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and disorderly conduct.
Zeig…
Devil-Masked Visitor Pranks Supervisor, Triggers Scare At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said.
Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…
Panhandler Charged Again Outside Warren County Lowe's
For at least the third time this year, a man has been charged with panhandling in Hackettstown, authorities said.
On Saturday, March 18, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Hackettstown police responded to Lowe's Home Improvement, 217 Mountain Ave, for a report of man knocking on car windows asking people for money and asking pedestrians for money, police said.
An officer observed Frank Vizthum, 53, of Hackettstown knocking on a car window.
Vizthum was charged with disorderly conduct and released pending a court appearance, police said.
On Jan. 16, Vizthum was charged for walking in traffic and a…
Ex-Con Repeat Offender, NJ Roommate Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More
An ex-con whose Point Pleasant boardwalk arrest became part of a viral video was busted once again on drug charges, this time along with his roommate, authorities said.
A SWAT team led a raid on the Grand Street apartment in Garfield that Zakee Murphy, 32, shares with fish tank technician Ryene Perry, 34, landing both in jail on various drug-related counts, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Murphy has been arrested dozens of times in multiple counties over the past decade, records show.
This time he's accused of using the Garfield home to stash the drugs along with more than $8,…
Warren County Man, 38, Nearly Hit Police Officer And Resisted Arrest: Prosecutor
A 38-year-old Warren County man was charged after he nearly crashed into a police officer, resisted arrest, and later turned himself in, authorities announced.
Officers in Independence Township stopped a Toyota Tacoma driven by Clinton Ontweka, who ran a stop sign on Route 517 in Allamuchy and nearly hit a police officer on Monday, Aug. 8, Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said in a release with local officials on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Officers determined via sobriety testing that Ontweka, of Hackettstown, was intoxicated, and decided to arrest him before he ran into a nearby cornfi…
Dual Threat: Wayne Twins Sexually Harass Same Woman, Tangle With Police, Authorities Report
Twin brothers from Wayne sexually harassed a local mom repeatedly, then tangled with police who arrested them both, authorities said.
The woman told police that she was walking in her neighborhood with her young child on Aug. 29 when Ryan Kayal, 33, rode up on a bicycle and “threatened to force himself on her sexually,” Detective Capt. Dan Daly said.
Kayal was “evasive and uncooperative,” then walked away and refused to stop when they found him on the bicycle a short time later, the captain said.
They’d taken Kayal into custody when his twin, Daniel, emerged from their home and tried to fr…
1 Hospitalized, Pair Charged Following Fight At Warren County QuickChek: Police
One person was hospitalized and both were charged following a fight that broke out at a Warren County QuickChek, authorities confirmed.
Officers responding to the dispute at the Mountain Avenue store in Hackettstown found Eric Boe, 55, of Great Meadows, sitting on the ground and bleeding from his face as William Diaz-Santiago, 35, was holding him down around 2:25 p.m. on Monday, June 13, local police said.
A follow-up investigation found that Diaz-Santiago, of Hackettstown, was riding his bicycle when Boe tried to “clothesline” him off of it, according to police.
Diaz-Santiago then got off…
