HOBOKEN – It was a brawl unique even by Hoboken standards.
On Friday morning on Washington Street in the Mile Square City, which regularly sees its share of closing-time scuffles and sidewalk altercations, police broke up a “melee” involving women from nearby towns and arrested seven on a variety of disorderly conduct allegations, according to published reports.
Police on routine patrol shortly before 2 a.m. encountered a large group of loud and unruly “females attacking each other,” reports said, quoting officers as saying they tried to “release the hands of numerous females from others’ hair.” Other officers had to be called in off patrol to bring the situation under control, reports said.
When police got the alleged combatants under restraint and sorted out the various accusations, women from Hoboken, Jersey City and Secaucus, all in their early to mid-twenties, were arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to simple assault.