Sixty-Two Arrested in Seaside Heights Boardwalk Melee Early Tuesday Morning
Police Chief Thomas J. Boyd ordered boardwalk shut down around 1 a.m.
All seemed well early Monday night when Seaside Heights Chief of Detectives Steven Korman and his family watched the fireworks display, then hit the boardwalk. "It was calm," Korman said. "We just walked on the boardwalk, got ice cream. I had my mother-in-law in a wheelchair with us." The Korman family left between 10 p.m. and 10:30, he said. But things changed on the boardwalk not long after. Large crowds began to gather. Fights broke out in various areas of the boardwalk. Police had to use mace in some instances, Korman said. "I don't know what happened," said Korman, who could not recall a time when the boardwalk was shut down completely. "It obviously isn't a normal thing. I don't know what went wrong." The disturbances continued to …
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Nicholas Loffredo
10:45 am on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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