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Police: Man Breaks Glass Door At Hanover 7-Eleven Over Soda Price Dispute Police: Man Breaks Glass Door At Hanover 7-Eleven Over Soda Price Dispute
Police: Man Breaks Glass Door At Hanover 7-Eleven Over Soda Price Dispute A man who police say punched and broke a window during a dispute over soda prices at a 7-Eleven in Cedar Knolls has been charged with criminal mischief and simple assault. Hanover Police were called to 7-Eleven on Ridgedale Avenue for a dispute on Tuesday, May 5, authorities said. Further investigation and review of video surveillance footage revealed that Kevin Drury, 44, of West Orange had punched and broken one of the store’s front glass door panels during a fight over soda prices, authorities said. Drury was charged with criminal mischief, simple assault and disorderly conduct. He was …

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by Valerie Musson
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Authorities: Man Who Kicked Hamburg Officer In Groin Once Assaulted State Trooper Authorities: Man Who Kicked Hamburg Officer In Groin Once Assaulted State Trooper
Authorities: Man Who Kicked Hamburg Officer In Groin Once Assaulted State Trooper A man recently arrested for drunkenly assaulting three Hamburg police officers was once taken into custody for slamming a car door on a state trooper, said authorities who charged him. Hamburg police responded to a dispute between the 52-year-old man and an unidentified woman at 100 Quarry Road Sunday evening, police said in a release. Upon arrival,  Kurt M. Takach appeared highly intoxicated was immediately uncooperative with officers, authorities said.  The property's landlord said Takach was told numerous times before that he was not permitted there due to prior incidents…

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by Jon Craig
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Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman Girl Seized In COVID-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman
Girl Seized In Covid-19 Bias Attack On Asian Middlesex County Woman An underage teen punched an Asian woman in the head after she and others surrounded the victim in Edison shouting coronavirus-related racial slurs, authorities said. The girl was detained on Tuesday in connection with the incident from 10 days earlier, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Police issued delinquency complaints charging her with bias intimidation, rioting, simple assault and disorderly conduct, as well as with violating state coronavirus emergency orders, the attorney general said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and Edison police were continuing an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jersey Shore Man, 70, Brawls With Police, Customers At Two Wawa Stores Over Not Wearing Mask Jersey Shore Man, 70, Brawls With Police, Customers At Two Wawa Stores Over Not Wearing Mask
Jersey Shore Man, 70, Brawls With Police, Customers At Two Wawa Stores Over Not Wearing Mask Toms River police arrested a 70-year-old local man twice in less than three hours after they said he got into brawls with customers and officers at two different Wawas over his refusing to wear a mask. Stephen Breza “became belligerent when he was told to wear a mask inside the Wawa store” on Route 37 late Saturday morning, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Monday. Breza “started screaming, flailing his arms, and cursing at employees, [then] threatened a customer in the store that he was going to hit him with a pipe,” Grewal said. He screamed at responding officers and resisted …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Drunk Morris County Door Knocker Spits On Police Says 'Catch Coronavirus And Die' Authorities: Drunk Morris County Door Knocker Spits On Police Says 'Catch Coronavirus And Die'
Authorities: Drunk Morris County Door Knocker Spits On Police Says 'Catch Coronavirus And Die' "Catch coronavirus and die," is what a drunk Morris County man told police taking him into custody after they found him knocking on doors in a hospital mask and gloves, authorities charged. Jonathan Cabrejos, 24, of Mount Arlington, was stopped by police when police spotted him knocking on doors in Wharton near the Dover border Sunday around 11 p.m., Wharton police wrote in a Facebook post. An officer was trying to help a "visibly intoxicated" Cabrejos call a family member for a ride home when he began shouting profanities in the middle of Ford Avenue, police said. Cabrejos then befor…

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by Valerie Musson
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Spitting On Police, 911 Scares: Coronavirus Crimes Spread Throughout NJ Spitting On Police, 911 Scares: Coronavirus Crimes Spread Throughout NJ
Spitting On Police, 911 Scares: Coronavirus Crimes Spread Throughout NJ Along with the increase of coronavirus cases in New Jersey are growing numbers of people charged with crimes directly tied to the pandemic, authorities said. No fewer than five of them either spit or coughed on police officers and claimed they’d tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said. Others held weddings or other gatherings in violation of state emergency orders. Another is accused of dialing 911 and claiming she had the coronavirus to try to get a community college to close. All are being held accountable, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “Our police officers are g…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Lakewood PD: Liquor Store Customer Denied Cigarettes Coughs, Claims He Has Coronavirus Lakewood PD: Liquor Store Customer Denied Cigarettes Coughs, Claims He Has Coronavirus
Lakewood PD: Liquor Store Customer Denied Cigarettes Coughs, Claims He Has Coronavirus Police arrested a Lakewood man who they said deliberately coughed inside a liquor store and claimed he had coronavirus after the clerk refused to sell him cigarettes. Officers responding to an emergency call from the Pine Cone Liquor Store on Second Street caught up to Juan Gomez Sanchez, 25, and asked whether he needed medical help, police said.  They charged him with disorderly conduct after concluding that he concocted the story, they said.

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by Jon Craig
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Authorities: Injured Man Gets Off Stretcher, Charges At Teaneck Police, Ambulance Workers Authorities: Injured Man Gets Off Stretcher, Charges At Teaneck Police, Ambulance Workers
Authorities: Injured Man Gets Off Stretcher, Charges At Teaneck Police, Ambulance Workers An injured man got off a stretcher and led Teaneck police on a brief chase after family members interfered with his treatment, authorities said. Daquan Frazier, 26, had gotten into an argument with his mother, Angele Frazier, as she drove him to be treated for a cut on his hand Saturday night, Police Chief Glenn M. O’Reilly said. She apparently wanted to bring him to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, but he insisted on going to nearby Holy Name Medical Center and got out of the car, O’Reilly said. Officers responding to a call at Teaneck Road and Route 4 found Frazier on the ground hav…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Lyndhurst PD: Officers Subdue Combative DWI Jersey City Driver, Union City Companion Lyndhurst PD: Officers Subdue Combative DWI Jersey City Driver, Union City Companion
Lyndhurst PD: Officers Subdue Combative DWI Jersey City Driver, Union City Companion A drunken Jersey City driver had to be pepper-sprayed -- and still continued to resist efforts to get him under control – as Lyndhurst police took him and a companion into custody, authorities said. Officer Michael Clifford activated his lights and siren after Xavier Torres, 26, sped through a stop sign on Chase Avenue and made an illegal U-turn in the Kingsland Avenue intersection around 10 p.m. Thursday, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. After pulling over and parking, Torres got out of the Jeep Cherokee, along with Jacqueline Feliciano, 34, Union City, Auteri said. Both began walking …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Woman Charged In Pocket Knife Stabbing At Hackettstown Apartment Complex Police: Woman Charged In Pocket Knife Stabbing At Hackettstown Apartment Complex
Police: Woman Charged In Pocket Knife Stabbing At Hackettstown Apartment Complex A Hackettstown woman was being held in the Warren County Jail after police said she stabbed someone with a pocket knife in an argument about beer. 
Hackettstown police responded to an apartment on the 200 block of Main Street on a report of a medical assist on Saturday, Jan. 4 around 6:30 p.m. After confronting a person about having beer inside of the apartment, Nicole Russell, 46, of Mansfield Township, stabbed the victim in the left shoulder with a small pocket knife, police said. The relationship between Russell and the victim was not clear. The victim was transported to Morristown Med…

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by Valerie Musson
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Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl
Bergenfield PD: Rowdy Restaurant Patron Sucker-Punches Officer In Buffet Brawl A patron from Lodi sucker-punched a Bergenfield police officer after causing a disturbance in a local Chinese buffet restaurant, authorities said. Officers Andres Enriquez and John Hwang “attempted to escort him out” of the International Buffet on South Washington Avenue when Kwaku Agyemang-Dua, 31, suddenly slugged Hwang, Lt. William Duran said. Hwang and Enriquez struggled with Agyemang-Dua before subduing and handcuffing him, the lieutenant said. Both officers required hand and wrist injuries that required hospital treatment, Duran said. Agyemang-Dua was treated, too, he said. All wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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New Milford PD: Teaneck Bar Brawler Keeps Fighting With Police After Being Pepper-Sprayed New Milford PD: Teaneck Bar Brawler Keeps Fighting With Police After Being Pepper-Sprayed
New Milford PD: Teaneck Bar Brawler Keeps Fighting With Police After Being Pepper-Sprayed A Teaneck man continued to fight with New Milford police who’d pepper-sprayed him, then threatened to kill them, after they broke up a fight between him and another man at a local bar, authorities said. Sgt. George Herrero and Officers Adam Conboy, Pierre Hanikeh and Sam Doran separated the two after being called to the Barrel and Brew Bar on River Road at 1:43 a.m. Thursday, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. One of the combatants, 39-year-old Kenneth Dais Jr., at first gave them a fake name, then refused to produce any identification, Van Saders said. Dais “appeared intoxicated and beg…

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by Jerry DeMarco