New Jersey State Police Sgt. Brian Polite, a division spokesman, said that one individual was arrested by troopers for disorderly conduct following the incident
A New Jersey State Police cruiser blocks a street during a call in Trenton in May. State officials recently announced another deployment of troopers into the capital city, where they are charged with flooding Trenton's most violent neighborhoods. TRENTON — A swarm of city police and state troopers — both those stationed in the city and others based at a Hamilton station — flooded the area surrounding the intersection of Monmouth Street and Walnut Avenue Saturday evening after a block party swelled into a crowd of more than 300 people, officials said.
New Jersey State Police Sgt. Brian Polite, a division spokesman, said that one individual was arrested by troopers for disorderly conduct following the incident.
“It was a block party that was initially licensed for a smaller group, which swelled to over 300 people,” said Polite. “There was an order to shut the party down, and as a result of this, one person was arrested for disorderly conduct.”
Polite said troopers responded to the area late Saturday evening. He confirmed that the response included personnel stationed in the city as part of the agency’s Targeted Integrated Deployment Effort, which has resulted in both uniformed and plainclothes troopers being deployed in the most violent portions of Trenton. In addition, troopers based in a Hamilton station responded to assist.
“There were troopers called in from Hamilton also to assist troopers already in Trenton,” Polite said.
Just before 11 p.m., a convoy of Trenton Police patrol vehicles and troop cars were seen gathering near the intersection of Cass Street and Route 29 before speeding off into the city.
Polite said that the response was commanded by the Trenton Police Department.
Despite several calls, Trenton Police officials would not comment on the incident Sunday.
The response to the incident also included a mutual aid request from Trenton authorities to surrounding municipalities.
Lawrence Township Police Sgt. Joe Lech said that his department received a request to assist city units at about 10:35 p.m. Saturday.
“They called us and requested us for mutual aid for some type of a large disturbance,” he said. “We did receive a call for mutual aid, but they cancelled us before we could send anybody.”
Lech said the request was cancelled within ten minutes.
“They indicated they had it under control,” he said.
Polite said that state troopers were not aware of any injuries related to the incident.
The streets in the neighborhood were relatively quiet Sunday afternoon, save for the occasional car or Trenton police unit patrolling the area.
Contact David Karas at dkaras@njtimes.com.
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