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Hoboken Man Impersonated Cops: Police

A 43-year-old Hoboken man was arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 26, authorities said.

Hoboken police

Hoboken police

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At 11:05 p.m., officers were on patrol when they observed a private vehicle with police lights and a siren trying to pull other vehicles over near the intersection of First and Court Streets, Hoboken police said. 

Officers recognized the driver as Matthew Seriale and observed him to have slurred and slow speech, police said.

Seriale refused a field sobriety test and was arrested for impersonating a police officer, police said. Seriale had an unlabeled prescription bottle containing numerous pills and another pill bottle prescribed to someone else, as well as police lights, a megaphone with an audible siren, two police shields, and other law enforcement related paraphernalia, police said.

Seriale was  was given summonses for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, police said. He was transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility, police said.

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