Neighbor says noise from alleged marijuana owner woke his cats
Police were phoned last Saturday, July 17 by a Garden Street man who called to complain that he had been dealing with frequent noise from the apartment above him, and that it was so bad that night that it woke up both of his cats. After police responded to the upstairs apartment, they ended up charging Ronald Ricciuti, 42, with aggravated assault on a police officer, as well as possession of marijuana.
The events transpired after two police officers responded to the neighbor’s call on Saturday night. They listened at the upstairs door. They heard a male and female voice, according to the police report. According to the report, “Both sounded angry and intoxicated.”
The police knocked for 30 seconds. The female half of what turned out to be a married couple answered the door. When police entered, her husband was nude and complained that he was tired of being “bothered,” according to the police report. Then he left the room.
However, the man returned wearing a pair of shorts. He then demanded to be “taken in,” and put his arms out, according to the report.
Police asked the wife if she had been struck, and she said no. Police said they believed the fight was only verbal.
The husband continued rambling to police, according to the report, frequently using the words “dude” and “kid.”
Then, one of the officers noticed a bag on the coffee table that appeared to contain green leafy vegetation, suspected to be marijuana. As an officer gathered the paraphernalia, the man said “Dude…” and allegedly placed his hands on the other officer’s chest to push him away, according to the report.
The officer arrested him for aggravated assault. In the police station, the man, identified as Ricciuti, allegedly admitted that the green vegetation was his, according to the police report. He was additionally charged with possession of marijuana.
News reporter has problem in Hoboken bar
According to a police report, a woman came into Hoboken police headquarters in the wee hours of July 5 to say that her husband was a police officer and was helping a woman at a nearby bar who was sick, and that an ambulance and police radio car should be dispatched.
A Hoboken police officer responded to the scene and tended to a woman, who kept throwing up in the bathroom, according to the report. Also according to the report, the first police officer who had been helping the woman was actually an officer in Clark, N.J. That officer expressed his displeasure with the bar’s security staff. The security staff, in turn, had asked him to leave the bar and not come back.
The Hoboken police officer responding to the situation assessed that the woman needed medical attention. The woman was also identified as a bartender at the establishment. The manager of the bar, who had said earlier that the woman had been “doing shots,” did not want an ambulance called, according to the police report. According to the report, the manager “insisted that he would take her to a room he had at the W Hotel in Hoboken and take care of her, as she was also a television air personality [in] NY and he didn’t want any kind of police reports indicating what had transpired.” The officer wrote, “While I understood his concern for [her] career, my immediate concern was for her well-being.”
The Hoboken officer called for an ambulance. The woman was taken to Hoboken University Medical Center.
How not to flirt
Police responded to a diner in Hoboken around 5 a.m. on Friday, July 16 after someone reported that a disorderly group had gathered.
When police arrived, a woman who was among five people in the parking lot said she had been punched in the face. Police observed a large contusion on her cheek, according to the police report. The woman pointed out a man in the group whom she said had allegedly punched her. Police arrested Gamill Haidara, 36, of Newark, for aggravated assault. The woman was brought to Hoboken’s hospital by ambulance to be treated.
At the hospital, the victim gave more information. She said that she and her female friend had met Haidara and his male friend earlier in the evening and decided to go to the diner to eat.
According to the police report, “While at the diner, Mr. Haidara called [the victim] a whore in a foreign language. She asked him why he called her that and he jokingly said to her to give him a smack. She says that she playfully tapped Mr. Haidara on the cheek with her opened hand. [She] said that Mr. Haidara [allegedly] swung at her with his hand.” The victim’s friend saw the resulting wound and called police.
A doctor told police that x-rays indicated that the victim had sustained a fractured cheek bone.
At police headquarters, Haidara allegedly refused to give personal information for the arrest report, and was charged with obstructing administration of the law, in addition to aggravated assault. He also asked for medical attention for a laceration to his hand sustained during the altercation, and was treated at the hospital, according to the police report.