{"id":24538,"date":"2026-05-21T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/police-crack-down-after-teens-cause-chaos-in-popular-beach-town\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:58:47","slug":"police-crack-down-after-teens-cause-chaos-in-popular-beach-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/police-crack-down-after-teens-cause-chaos-in-popular-beach-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Crack Down After Teens Cause Chaos In Popular Beach Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Authorities in a New Jersey town took aggressive action this week after fights broke out when a mob of teens and young adults caused chaos on its popular beachfront.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The city of Long Branch imposed an emergency 8:00 p.m. curfew after it said there was an \u201cunauthorized pop-up gathering\u201d of hundreds of people at Pier Village on Tuesday evening. This pop-up \u201cquickly deteriorated into fights, individuals jumping on parked vehicles, and disorder along the boardwalk and surrounding streets,\u201d the city <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbranch.org\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The city deployed 139 law enforcement officers to respond to the incident, including 69 Long Branch officers and personnel from the Monmouth County Sheriff\u2019s Office and New Jersey Transit Police. The officers cleared the pop-up by 9:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Videos posted to social media show large crowds of people sprinting through the area as police officers clear the streets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jJOoiYovu3o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unruly teen crowd takes over Pier Village in Long Branch, police respond\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJOoiYovu3o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIt really was a ton of people screaming, running,\u201d Anthony Pizzi, who witnessed the chaos, told CBS. \u201cSomebody pulled up the car right there and they just started jumping on the car.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Six people were arrested as a result of the chaos, and police are investigating multiple aggravated assault cases and reports of a stolen car. Those arrested included a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman for disorderly conduct, three juvenile females for disorderly conduct, and a juvenile male for an eluding incident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The females arrested were all from Newark, about 45 miles away from Long Branch. The male was from New Brunswick, about 38 miles away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The city said that many of the people who arrived for the pop-up traveled by train to arrive in Long Branch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThe City of Long Branch takes these events seriously and will not tolerate conduct that endangers residents, visitors, business owners, or our public safety personnel,\u201dsaid Long Branch Director of Public Safety Charles Shirley. \u201cPop-up gatherings of this nature have repeatedly disrupted Jersey Shore communities, and Long Branch is prepared to act decisively whenever public safety is threatened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, the city said that anyone visiting the area \u201cintending to engage in violence or disorder should expect to be arrested and prosecuted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Major cities throughout the country have faced so-called \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teen-takeovers-turn-blue-cities-into-scenes-from-the-purge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">teen-takeovers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> where massive groups of teenagers shut down public spaces, and engage in assaults, robberies, vandalism, and shootings. Earlier this week, multiple stabbings <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/us-news\/rhode-island-beach-chaos-leads-to-three-stabbed-11-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">took place<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> at beaches throughout Rhode Island during similar events. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-police-crack-down-after-teens-cause-chaos-in-popular-beach-town\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in a New Jersey town took aggressive action this week after fights broke out when a mob of teens and young adults caused chaos on its popular beachfront.\u00a0 The city of Long Branch imposed an emergency 8:00 p.m. curfew after it said there was an \u201cunauthorized pop-up gathering\u201d of hundreds of people at Pier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}