Crime & Safety

St. Patrick's Day Police Blotter

From aggravated assaults to a man steeling liquor from a bar. Here are some of the day's police high lights.

The rowdy party that followed the Hoboken St. Patrick's Day parade is still fresh on everyone’s mind. So much so that .

In total the police arrested 34 people. According to reports, they caught two people with fake guns, arrested a robber with a knife and broke up multiple fights and house parties. Of two reported sexual assault cases,

Here are some of the police reports from that day. All below information comes from police reports from the Hoboken Police Department and all incidents are alleged. 

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Around 1:30 p.m. on parade day, officers arrested 21-year-old Shane Weigand from Woodbourne, NY for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and obstruction. A group of five people was walking on Bloomfield and Newark with three open containers of beer. When police saw Weigand—who, according to the report, smelled like alcohol—he yelled, “I’m 21, I can drink whatever I want.” As an officer began to issue him a summonse for the open container of alcohol he was holding, Weigand became more angry and he started pushing the officer. Weigand was then arrested.

Around 2:45 p.m. at Third and Washington Streets police arrested three Monroe Township men for aggravated assault and resisting arrest after getting into a physical altercation with them, police said. A woman had informed police that she saw a man across the street waving a gun. When police went up to 22-year-old Frank Vellucci (the man in question), they asked him what he was holding. “Nothing,” he said. Vellucci, together with Monroe Township residents Justin Miller and Brian Londregan then started to fight the police officers off. All three men were arrested. The gun turned out to be fake but looked real, according to the police report. 

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At approximately 2:40, police broke up a rowdy house party at 12th and Washington Streets where roughly 50 people were partying in an apartment.

Around 3:30 p.m. police found a 23-year-old man from Metuchen with blood coming from his nose, left eye and right ear, on Sixth Street. The actors, he told police, were three men in blue jeans and green t-shirts who had ran away in the direction of Willow Avenue. No arrests were made. The victim was taken to the hospital with a possible broken nose.

Police was called to a fight on 10th and Clinton Streets where, in the lobby of a building, an aggravated assault had taken place. Alexander Santucci from Cedar Grove was arrested after he punched the victim five times in his head and face at a house party. 

Around 5 p.m. police arrested Joseph Cridge from Newton, PA, after he was seen waving—what seemed to be—a handgun. The gun appeared to be plastic, but Cridge was charged with causing a public alarm.

At 6:51 p.m. a patrolman found a woman who had been assaulted on Fourth and River Streets. The victim, who appeared highly intoxicated, said her boyfriend had thrown her in a thorn bush after which she fell to the ground. Police arrested Robert Woodford, 34, from North Bergen.

A little before 5 p.m. Police broke up a house party where somebody was in possession of a metal baseball bat.

A little after 8 p.m. police arrested James Gould from Bellport, NY, at Far Side on Washington Street. Gould was charged with criminal mischief and theft. Gould had come in to the bar’s storage room where he was seen removing bottles of liquor from the shelves.

Around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday a 29-year-old Hoboken resident was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Christopher Burns got involved in an altercation with a man and his fiancé when walking on First Street. According to the police report, the woman was kicked in the chest. 

Around 10:30 p.m. police arrested Alan Geslicki from Jersey City. The 19-year-old, holding an eight-inch knife with a 2,5-inch blade, was going door-to-door to multiple apartments with the intent to rob them. Geslicki was arrested, charged with robbery and transported to police Head Quarters. After he was put in a holding cell, he became unruly and was transported to Hoboken University Medical Center.

A car parked on Ninth and Garden was vandalized at some point during the day.

A little after 11:30 p.m. police responded to a house party on the 500 block of Washingtong Street, where the host was punched in the face.

An aggravated assault took place a little after 1 a.m. on Sunday on First and Clinton Streets, where a 23-year-old Hoboken man was punched multiple times until losing consciousness. Hoboken resident Charles Gross was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

Around 2 a.m. on Sunday police broke up a street fight at Fourteenth and Washington Streets. No arrests were made.


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