Crime & Safety

When Will People Learn to Listen to Jim Croce?

Songwriter laid it all out in 1972's "You Don't Mess Around with Jim."

Each week, 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 highlights from this week:

You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape: This category sneaks in about once a week. This time, it makes the OMGs , where police say they tussled with an alleged drug dealer. While police were trying to arrest him, they said, he wrestled with officers and allegedly went for a cop's gun. A fist to the chest wasn't enough to keep the alleged dealer down, and when he tried to get away, an officer struck him with a baton in an attempt to subdue him, police said. The accused continued trying to disarm the officer, and it took another baton strike to end the altercation, police said. Ultimately, the man faced a bunch of charges—including some related to the 87 bags of crack cocaine and five bags of heroin police said he had in his possession.

You Don't Spit Into the Wind (It's An Extension of the Last category. Ask Your Parents): Bloomingdale cops have a less dramatic tale, of a woman they say was . They say the woman struck an officer in the face, then kicked him in the leg. We don't recommend doing either approach to fighting with a cop. More importantly, we really, really don't recommend fighting with a cop.

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For the record, you also don't pull the mask on that old Lone Ranger. Just in case you were wondering.

Here's a Lesson—Don't Bring Drugs to School: Toms River cops have arrested a man they say showed up at Forked River Elementary School to pick up his son (which is innocent enough) while in the possession of 25 wax folds of heroin (which wouldn't be). It seems the man had allegedly dropped one of his bags, and it was found by a staff member at the school entrance. ; we don't know if the accused got a "Father of the Year" mug on Sunday.

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