{"id":24349,"date":"2025-10-31T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24349\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:54:20","slug":"nyc-man-dressed-as-cop-pulls-knife-at-nj-halloween-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24349\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man dressed as cop pulls knife at NJ Halloween party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glassboropd\/posts\/pfbid0mcJKMV9QayPVHSkbUUazm9Z84arkYE5KRLBeLrNkz8uogZLMb7AJQ9ojqvUWmcngl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Staten Island man dressed in a cop costume was arrested Friday<\/a>\u00a0for allegedly brandishing a real knife and making threats after he was barred from entering a Halloween party in New Jersey, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>John Bekhet, 19, is facing several charges \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/bill-search\/2024\/A1547\/bill-text?f=A2000&amp;n=1547_I1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">terroristic threats<\/a> and unlawful possession of a weapon \u2014 for his role in the alleged incident in Gloucester County in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Glassboro Police Department, officers responded to the 300 block of North Main Street shortly before 2 a.m. for a report of a knife-wielding man who made threats after being denied entry to the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, he was dressed as a police officer,\u201d a Glassboro police spokesperson said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers patrolling the area quickly located the suspect, later identified as Bekhet, and arrested him following a brief foot chase, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The knife used in the alleged altercation was also located nearby, according to the GPD.<\/p>\n<p>Bekhet was booked into Salem County Jail and charged with terroristic threats, obstruction, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and weapons offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Glassboro, in South Jersey, is about 20 miles southeast of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Staten Island man dressed in a cop costume was arrested Friday\u00a0for allegedly brandishing a real knife and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[266,85,607,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-24349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}