Monday, October 1, 2012
This week in OMGs from NJ PD, there was something going behind the stacks at Princeton University's bookstore, plus several cases of teen terrors come to light.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” A Different Kind of Store Credit: A bookstore employee reportedly put the “rowr” in the Princeton University Tigers, police say, by cavorting with an accused prostitute after-hours in the on-campus shop. A 23-year-old Bordentown man, a U-Store employee for several years, allegedly hired a 20-year-old Keyport woman through Craigslist. The two hit the books in the back of the store multiple times, according to Princeton Borough Police. Both also reportedly helped themselves to postcoital snacks without paying back the store. …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Also in OMGs from NJ PD, an alleged knife-wielding stalker makes it easy for police to find him.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” ATM Fee Avenger: An ATM fee cost a Morristown man $5, a boatload of snack food, his freedom, his leg mobility and probably a sizable chunk of his dignity. But, hey, no bail charge—that’s a plus! Morristown Police say the 37-year-old took up a one-man protest against a $5 ATM fee at a local 7-Eleven by deducting the amount from his junk food bill. Let’s just say it went downhill from there. So downhill that the man ended up in a jail cell, where he used wet toilet paper to cover a security camera. That earned him a pair of …
Sunday, September 9, 2012
New Jerseyans had their dukes up, to the detriment of an ear and international brotherhood, in this week's installment of OMGs from NJ PD.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” <Insert Mike Tyson Joke Here>: It’s all fun and games until someone’s ear gets bitten off. “Play fighting”—among adults, mind you—cost a Bloomingdale man part of his ear when a roll on the floor with a Wayne resident went too far. The Bloomingdale fighter presumably didn’t hear entreaties to stop the fight. Shocker of the year: Bloomingdale Police say the fighters were drunk. Neighbors’ Tiff Turns Saucy: A Maple Shade spat turned finger-licking good when the combatants unloaded the makings of a delicious cookout on each other…
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Also this week in OMGs from NJ PD, an alleged serial car burglar doesn't let a breakfast-time arrest sway him from lunchtime crimes.
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” Quality Family Time: Parents are squeezing in the last few precious days of summer fun with the kids before school starts. Swimming! Amusement parks! Shoplifting! Er, maybe that’s just (allegedly) one New York woman. Millburn Police say the Brooklyn woman took the kiddies along for the ride when she five-finger discounted 14 items from Bloomingdale's in Short Hills. The kids’ “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essays won’t include seeing mom in cuffs, at least, as police allowed her to remain unrestrained on the way to the …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Police report says soda proved an ineffective weapon, as does creating your own burglar uniform.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” Opening a Can of … Well, You Know: This guy lost the Pepsi challenge, big time. A Freehold man allegedly decided it would be a good idea to lob a full can of soda at a uniformed Freehold Borough officer conducting an investigation at a local liquor store. The alleged carbonated catapult cost Bumgardner $2,500 in bail and at stay at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, where, presumably, he was not given change for the soda machine. Creature of Criminal Habit: People celebrate anniversaries for all sorts of things, so …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
This week's crazy New Jersey police news includes runaway cows, a cash hiding place failure and a pair of boozy pants.
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Sunday, August 19, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” You Don’t Say … : We recommend exercising the right to remain silent next time you're confronted by cops for allegedly harassing a bar bouncer. Unfortunately, one 24-year-old man took another route, telling Morristown Police “I have a huge problem with authority.” That’s probably an understatement, considering police had to resort to leg irons to get the man under control and under arrest. Cattle Constitutional: Why did the cows cross the road? The bovines were unavailable for comment, but a man who help wrangle the wandering …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Garwood responders find a rotten surprise and a suspected thief makes like Cinderella in this week's crazy police news from around New Jersey.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” I’m Not Lovin’ It: Here’s hoping the Union County Bomb Squad’s equipment includes gas masks. The bomb squad rushed to Garwood recently for a gag-inducing suspicious package at a McDonald’s that sent foul odors far and wide. Instead of a bomb, responders found a duffel bag of rancid meat. Before you go making Mickey D’s jokes, this meat medley of chicken and a roast more closely resembled someone’s very, very outdated Sunday dinner. Perhaps concerned that the festering food could still cause injuries, authorities shut down …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Also this week in wacky New Jersey police news, holy stupidity, Batman! A 'superhero' causes a stir at a Home Depot.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” Can You Arrest Me Now? Good: In Part 1 of Criminals Making It Easy for Cops, we take you to Hackettstown. Before a 20-year-old man allegedly tried to rob a gas station there, he had a very pressing phone call to make. To his own home. Using the gas station’s phone. You can guess where this is going. Police used reverse dialing to find the man's home and arrested him there. Champagne Wishes and Jail Cell Dreams: Part 2 Criminals Making It Easy for Cops takes us to Lakehurst, where a convenience store employee showed some …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Cops say umbrellas suffer in the name of research and a cop goes way overboard to get a date in this week's weird New Jersey police news.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” Stealing in the Name of “Science:” And the winner of Patch’s just-made-up Chutzpah of the Year Award goes to … a Piscataway woman and man! We bestow this prestigious award on the pair for their explanation for allegedly stealing a restaurant’s outdoor umbrella: It was part of a social experiment on “doing the right thing.” Shockingly, police didn’t take kindly to the woman's note left behind at the scene mentioning the alleged experiment, promising to return the umbrella and wishing the one-umbrella-less restaurant owner “a …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Gross vandalism and crimes against the house of God top this week's crazy New Jersey police news.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd alleged criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold throughout New Jersey. Here’s what went on this week for “OMGs from NJ PD.” Nauseating No. 2: It’s bad enough to come home to any vandalism on your property, but coming home to human poo smeared on your door? That’s a special kind of awful. A Montclair woman told police someone had smeared excrement on her door and porch—though, fortunately, she noticed before she touched it. Adding insult to injury, the likely feces fiend left his boxers in the front yard. Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You: A sign outside of a Woodbury church asks “Will you rob God?” In two New Jersey towns, the answer is an apparent yes…
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