{"id":75522,"date":"2025-12-19T14:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:54:06","slug":"chaotic-street-takeover-in-n-j-town-leads-to-charges-against-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75522\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic \u2018street takeover\u2019 in N.J town leads to charges against 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Months after a so-called \u201cstreet takeover\u201d <\/a>caused chaos in Secaucus, police have announced charges against 14 people. <\/p>\n

Secaucus police said officers \u201ccame under attack\u201d on Aug. 31 when fireworks were set off under a police vehicle while an officer was inside. Other people also jumped on the hood of the patrol car. The police vehicle was left with thousands of dollars in damage. <\/p>\n

Police had been called to the intersection of Secaucus Road and County Avenue after getting a report that drivers were being reckless, in some cases while people were seated on the exterior of cars. <\/p>\n

In one instance, onlookers were hit but not badly injured when a driver lost control of his car. Three vehicles were seized. <\/p>\n

Four of the 14 were arrested in October while eight others were charged this month with riot\/public brawl to incite disorderly conduct, police said. <\/p>\n

Some were also charged with recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury and endangering another person.<\/p>\n

A \u201cstreet takeover\u201d is a social media-organized gathering of vehicles in a public intersection, where people obstruct traffic and perform stunts with cars.<\/p>\n

Two of those involved were 17 at the time of the incident and are charged as juveniles. The others range in age from 18 to 26. <\/p>\n

Many are from Monmouth, Middlesex, Ocean and Union counties. Three are from New York City and one lives in Virginia, according to police. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn August, I vowed that Secaucus Police Department would hold those accountable for putting my officers\u2019 lives at risk, and I hope the message is clear: if you come to Secaucus and put others in harm\u2019s way, we will hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d police chief Dennis Miller said in a statement. \u201cThe various units of the Secaucus Police Department worked as swiftly as possibly to file these charges while working within the confines of the law and our constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months after a so-called \u201cstreet takeover\u201d caused chaos in Secaucus, police have announced charges against 14 people. Secaucus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[27908,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-75522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jerseyjournal","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75522","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=75522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}