Crime & Safety

To Avoid Trouble With the Law, Pull Up Your Pants

Also, don't drive on your high school's athletic field.

Just about every parent has been there. You're rushing to get out of the house for the family portrait at Grandma's or a play-date. You're already 10 minutes late. And everyone's ready except your precious tyke or tykette, who absolutely refuses to get dressed. You pull your little bundle of joy's pants up, and he or she promptly pulls them down.

You try to reason, and your prince or princess starts the tantrum. You just can't win (well, not until you realize you're bigger than your toddler and can just pick him or her up).

Security officers at the when they approached a 24-year-old woman whose underwear was clearly visible, police said. The security officers asked her to pull up her pants – and that's when, police said, the screaming started.

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Police reported that the woman (who was not a toddler) started yelling obscenities at the security guards and became so unruly that she scared children nearby. Police were contacted and the woman was arrested.

We've checked, and New Jersey state law doesn't formally allow for "time out."

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Each Monday, Patch takes a peek at some of the more surprising, shocking, stunning and occasionally silly police-related incidents reported throughout New Jersey for "OMGs from NJ PDs." Some of the other reports:

Fishing for Criminals, Part II:  A few weeks ago, we told you about a Passaic man who allegedly stole nearly $300 of items from a Belleville grocery store, then . Well, there are plenty of alleged criminals in the sea ... err, river. Belleville police found another alleged ne'er-do-well in the river on Tuesday, .  The first two were caught on dry land, but the third had made his way into the Passaic, officers said.  Police reportedly later found 104 vials of cocaine, as well as some marijuana, in the overturned car.  So said a police captain: "We know why those guys were running."

This is Not a Commentary on Driver's Ed. At Ridge High: Police said they were contacted mid-afternoon on March 4 by someone reporting that a . An officer found the car, and reportedly observed all four tires had mud on them, and that the rear bumper of the vehicle had two to three inches of mud and grass sticking to it. The teen at the scene reportedly told police she'd driven on the field to win a $10 bet—which seems like a bad deal, considering she now faces a fine of between $50 and $200, and could have to pay for property damage.

What's the Tow-Truck-to-Cocaine Exchange Rate These Days? Police arrested a tow truck driver in Chatham after he , Chatham Borough Police said. The driver allegedly drove his company tow truck to Newark to purchase cocaine, but couldn't cover the cost. Some tools in the truck weren't enough either, police said. So the driver took his dealer back to Chatham, where the dealer took a 2003 Dodge Ram belonging to a customer of the towing business, police said.

Tissue? I Hardly Know You. But Now Police Do: A 70-something grandmother thought things weren't quite right . At first, she thought he might be changing his plates outside a CVS, but when she left the store herself, she saw something strange – the plates were covered in tissues. She wasn't sure what was up, but she called 911, and police said they arrived in time to watch the vehicle's driver exit with a bag of CVS items. They checked, found out the items hadn't been paid for and promptly arrested the man for allegedly stealing $291.66 worth of AA batteries, Oreo cookies and cough syrup. “She thought it was very suspicious and she was right," a detective with the Livingston police said.


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