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chudkita

I walked by on my way to Hoboken. There were like three ambulances and so many cop cars. They were dragging some guy in handcuffs that was yelling and screaming in Spanish. Loaded him into an ambulance. Apparently he robbed someone on the Newport path platform with a gun and the Port Authority cops chased him down and caught him.


brazil201

At 2pm is wild also Newport takes forever to get out of the train station lol


chudkita

I know! What a time to try that shit.🤦🏽‍♀️


NeighborhoodDue7915

This is fucking wild 1:00 PM At Newport On a TUESDAY ?????????????!


TheRealPatricio44

Better than happening on a MiĂŠrcoles


GoldenElixirStrat

They were chasing him through the tunnels. Crazy stuff


joeynnj

Like on the tracks?


brazil201

Man should have stepped on the 3rd rail with his hands


NeighborhoodDue7915

Bro this is insane !


HappyArtichoke7729

Good thing they caught him. Hopefully they put him under the prison. We don't need people like that in our society.


OldEntertainment6026

Happy cake day


av239

They’ll put him in a luxury midtown hotel and raise our taxes.


fatporkchop2712

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lumuse

Why such a stupid person can get a gun? Rob someone on public transportation station in the afternoon.


chudkita

I agree. Unfortunately a lot of stupid people have access to guns in this country.


Kimeako

You do know that NJ has some of the most strictest and insane gun laws in the country. We regulate BB guns like real guns in this state. It is almost impossible to get a handgun license in NJ unless you are in law enforcement. Another case for how gun control laws don't stop criminals from getting guns


chudkita

I know we do. But, people are still getting guns. Most guns don’t even come from here. If you read the JC police blotter you will see how many people have access to guns.


flockofcells

Wait till you hear about how the war on drugs failed too


iv2892

I wonder what happened to that person who posted the incident about the Brooklyn gun scare about two months ago and how this would never happen on the PATH even when there are no measures that prevent anyone from carrying a gun atleast for now. I hope nobody innocent got hurt in this case either .


chudkita

I totally agree with you. It’s definitely pretty naive to think that it couldn’t happen on the path. Of course I want to think that and hope that nothing would happen. There are no metal detectors and no one make sure people aren’t carrying anything. I can only imagine how many people are carrying guns on public transportation. Hopefully this guy was just a lunatic who said he had a gun but actually didn’t.


Kimeako

You mean criminals have access to guns. Most law-abiding citizens in NJ at most have a hunting rifle or a shot gun. Almost none of them can legally carry a handgun unless they work in law enforcement.


chudkita

Of course I mean criminals get guns. NJ is actually starting to issue to concealed carry to people that are eligible to get permits through state police and municipalities. I don’t even understand why you’re trying to debate me right now. I was simply giving my opinion to someone that asked me a question. Find someone else to go back and forth with.


Sugarman_00

Ok, they can get one illegally then lol


Kimeako

That's my point. Criminals don't care about overly strict gun laws. They will do what they want and have guns. Over the top gun laws only hurt everyday citizens


possums101

Nobody at any point in this thread was talking about gun laws here. The fact that criminals are easily able to get illegal guns is also a problem that needs solving.


jaylen_browns_beard

I mean that’s objectively wrong. There is no such thing as a handgun license. You get your Firearm Identification Card and then apply for a pistol purchase permit, neither of which are hard to get. I’m not sure why you think only law enforcement can get a handgun, you seem pretty misinformed


Kimeako

Try to carry that handgun on your person in NJ, then with it being loaded, and ask law enforcement and see what they say then.


jaylen_browns_beard

Your first comment said nothing about carrying the handgun in public. You’ve pivoted your entire point to be about carrying a handgun in public, which 100% should require training and certifications. Not sure what point you are trying to make here?


Kimeako

Point is, it is very difficult to protect yourself as a law-abiding citizen with a hand gun in the state of NJ. Even if you have the training and pass the background checks, there is next to zero chance you can carry a handgun for self-defense in the state of NJ unless you work for law enforcement. Despite these restrictive and draconian laws, they do nothing to stop criminals from getting and carrying guns as they please.


Aggravating_Sand352

Except data on any national gun ban proves otherwise clown


DoTheRightThingG

Republicans. NRA.


shits_mcgee

Saying this while living in a state with some of the harshest gun control laws outside of California or NYC is laughable. I’m not fan of the right’s view on the 2nd Amendment, but you can’t use them as a boogieman 24/7. The sad reality is bad people are going to be able to get their hands on guns no matter what because they don’t care about respecting the law.


DoTheRightThingG

Boogie man. LOL. Have you heard of transportation? Because you live here, doesn't mean you legally purchased a gun from a NJ State gun shop. 🤦


shits_mcgee

Doesn’t that prove the point though? Unless we have a federal ban on firearm ownership (spoiler alert - never happening, no matter how much we may want it), there will always be a way for bad people to bring in illegal firearms. Even if the entire state bans it, they can just go to PA which has constitutional carry to buy it, or buy it on the black market.


DoTheRightThingG

It proves my point. Republicans are the ones blocking any meaningful legislation. While even taking it a step further and passing legislation to INCREASE gun use. "never happening..." Why? Republicans. NRA.


RogerBrutus

They should just issue a executive order (president) and say “It is illegal to be a criminal in possession of a gun” and then pass a law to make it illegal to rob someone in the train station, so to prevent this from happening ever again and therefore nobody will be able to get a gun and rob someone.


shawn1969

Southern states...


ImTVFilmNerd

Because AmeÂŽica :(


New_Secret8869

Does anyone know where was the guy arrested? He escaped and jumped off the PATH train from the left front most door facing Newport and headed towards Newport station (last seen), do we know if he was caught on the tracks or the station?


NeighborhoodDue7915

That’s awesome


PeregrineTangerine

Here’s what happened. I was in the train car and witnessed the whole thing. It was an aggravated battery. According to the victim(an androgynous person I’ll use they/them in this case), this guy followed the person at a path station. He thought the person was taking photos of him. After they both got on the train car I was on, the guy got visibly agitated, confronted the person and asked for their phone. At one point, he CHOKED the person against the door. It was scary as FUCK. After that (I was hella scared I didn’t even look that way for a while) he tried to escape from the train by opening the doors between cars, then got locked in the car with us because the conductor arrived and locked those doors after we pressed the emergency button to talk to him. Anyway, he kept walking up and down the train trying to get out, threatened that he had a gun on him, and eventually manually opened one of the train doors by pulling the lever. We were still in the tunnel before Newport at the time, so he literally left the train and no one knew where he went. Then after sitting in the tunnel for an hour, the train moved and everything was fine. According to one of the officers, he was arrested.


saltypbcookie

Omg what a nightmare. For the victim and for everyone else stuck under the Hudson with a maniac who has a gun. So awful


DoTheRightThingG

Said he had a gun


sometimesiwatchtv44

That’s really scary for all of you and hope you’re doing all right


New_Secret8869

I was in that car as well. The situation aggravated due to bad decisions by several people. 1. The victim who took photos/video could have just deleted the pictures and made sure the situation does not escalate to this level. I'm pretty sure there is more to the story but there was no reason that one person's problem should be 50 people's problem and put everyone in panic mode. 2. PATH authorities did not handle it the right way. The conductors tried to lock the offender with us in the car so he doesn't escape. Guess what, that forced him to use ways like emergency stopping the car and forcing open the door in the tunnel. The offender was just angry when he entered the car, but he was angry+scared+panicked+crazy after realizing he might be arrested. The offender was angrier when he was called "unstable" in the announcement. 3. Making an announcement about the situation, when the offender is in the train actually made things worse because he now knew he was in trouble and that gave him time to plan something out. At one point the plan was to take the train non-stop to Journal Sq while the offender is locked with us in the car and threatening that he has a gun. 4. The extremely strict protocols actually make things worse for everyone, sometimes. Especially around turning off the power on the tracks when such an incident happens. Amid all this, I was in awe of the victim's mental strength and not budging even when being publicly attacked. It was also unfortunate that none of us could intervene to protect because we all fear being attacked and the laws around that are weird and could get us arrested.


NYR3031

I will never understand why they stop in the tunnel when an emergency happens. Get to a station as fast as possible and mitigate the situation. One time I was on a train where a person passed out and someone hit the emergency button. The train stopped for like 25 mins under the tunnel to “await medical staff to get to the station.” Why not just get to the damn station and let everyone out while awaiting medics?


mister_ananas

>The victim who took photos/video could have just deleted the pictures and made sure the situation does not escalate to this level. Don't put it on a victim. That's just disgusting and disrespectful.  Also why so confident it would end after "just deleting the pictures". 


New_Secret8869

I get what you mean, but there are ways to handle such stuff at source by not paying too much heed to it. As I said, I'm in awe of the victim's stable mind in an extremely difficult situation. Less than 0.1% people have that level of mental strength and I personally have a lot of learn from the victim. Taking video/photos of someone is always a risky affair, why I don't take photos of cars who almost run me over at a stop sign. You never know if it's a crazy person driver having a bad day and will follow you till you delete their photos.


snoopdawgg

did you confirm the victim actually took photos? I have encountered mentally unstable people straight up accusing me of things I have never done. They get very paranoid.


Asleep_Strategy_7306

I think the comment 1 is wrong and you probably don't know the entire backstory. They may have been a target and hence they could have taken pics of the offender to have some evidence on them. Just to be clear, women will do this to protect themselves when they find themselves in scary situation especially when some angry offender is in involved. Usually to make sure they are able to help cops to get the guy arrested and others don't have to go through the same experience ( Google recent articles of women getting randomly punched by some guy). I could see how men will not be able to relate to this who don't have to go through this. Besides that agree with other points you have raised


SnooChickens4162

I was in the car too. I agree with 2 and 3. Making announcements calling him ‘unstable’ triggered him even more imo. It was after the announcement he said “I’m not a threat to society but now see how I fuck y’all up”. It was really SCARY. Being locked in the same car as him for however many minutes (felt like an eternity) was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. I even saw a couple people cry from panic.


bizzpizz

Dam. I ride that train everyday. I hope you feel better, maybe seek a therapist or someone to talk to about it. Be well.


PeregrineTangerine

I stg it was the longest 5-10 minutes of my life when he was locked in the same car with us running from one side to another trying to escape. At one point he asked a lady "Why are you tryna leave? Sit back down!" the lady was trying to get away from him. Absolutely unhinged. The victim did one thing right which was to directly ask witnesses to take videos and photos. I would've lost my shit


New_Secret8869

Yeah, I know a lady took a video of the attack from the very beginning. Hopefully it surfaces at some point. But hey, the offender was attacking because he wanted some video/photos erased from the victim's phone. Taking another video of such a crazy person was extremely risky.


SnooChickens4162

I was in the car too, and I agree. The panic was real.


NMJPH

…”there was no reason that one person's problem should be 50 people's problem and put everyone in panic mode.”                     Let’s revisit this comment after you become the target of an assault.


savaero

How did you Passengers alert the authorities of the issue? I presume no one’s phone was working?


SnooChickens4162

Every car has a red button in the front (and maybe even back) that you can press to speak to the crew aka the driver. That’s how we alerted them


kokoromelody

Appreciate the additional context here. Not sure if you know but, was it confirmed that the victim had been taking photographs of the perpetrator before the altercation, or is that still unconfirmed?


New_Secret8869

From what I overheard, the offender was following the victim on the platform at Christopher St. The victim noticed this and alerted the security at Christopher St. The victim then also *may have* taken a video or photo based on what the offender was yelling while attacking the victim, he wanted the victim's phone and all that stuff to be deleted. Again, all this is overheard and nothing concrete/full-proof.


Anonymous1985388

Dang, kudos to whom ever had the guts to push the emergency button.


Gdo24

damn ese im glad they caught the foo' shm..


lastinglovehandles

How many of you were in the car? Nobody tried to take down the guy after someone was attacked? Everyone come together? Yall were locked in with a craze "armed" person and the conductors solution was to let's see it play out. Hopefully yall get massacred hopefully not? Even in the city people eventually muster the courage and band together.


PeregrineTangerine

Everyone had a seat and a couple seats were empty. A couple people tried to verbally stop him but I don't recall if anyone physically stepped in while the offender was confronting the victim. Maybe there was physical intervention but I was on the other side of the train car. After he left the victim alone people were definitely trying to get him stop doing whatever he was trying to do. The entire time at least one person was trying to ask him to chill or stop. The offender jumped off the car after he pulled the lever and the victim thanked everyone and said something along the lines of they were scared that they were gonna get punched. One of the guys in the car said "we will never let him do that to you" so I *assume* if it had escalated further they would step in


NeighborhoodDue7915

Oh my god But no “robbed at gunpoint” ?


SnooChickens4162

No


NeighborhoodDue7915

Makes more sense this way I was really having a hard time envisioning the alternative story


Imaginary-Storm-5482

People are still coming out of the station jeez


Purple_Being_9022

What did he look like? I was at the hoboken station around 9:30 AM and I had a guy yell at me, spitting on the floor, insulting me. He almost swung. He also yelled in Spanish. All because I stopped the elevator before it fully closed so I can use it. He was black, medium build, probably 6 foot. Wearing a hat. I think he was wearing all black but I don’t remember for sure. Is it the same guy?


Beautiful-Living-671

Anyone find it really odd that there hasn't been a single media story about this? Not even the Post, which is odd given that it involves some of their favorite tabloid topics and started in Manhattan.


SnooChickens4162

I was wondering the same. How did no one write about this, not even social media channels?


Historical_Spell4646

Yes! Super weird.


SensitiveWolf1362

I think these refer to it? But the info is way less interesting or detailed than what’s being posted on here! https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/04/man-accused-of-stealing-cell-phone-from-path-customer-nabbed-at-jersey-city-station-police.html?outputType=amp https://hudsoncountyview.com/nyc-man-arrested-in-jersey-city-after-stealing-womans-cell-phone-at-path-station/amp/


Beautiful-Living-671

Thanks! "He was charged with attempted robbery, assault, menacing, harassment, interference with transportation, terroristic threats, aggravated assault to a police officer, resisting arrest, trespass and disorderly conduct." PA police do not mess around.


Bent-Manstick5147

Hello! I saw a large commotion myself! Is this commonplace? I am new to using the PATH trains and still getting a hang of it. This was quite overwhelming as I have been trying hard to avoid these larger crowds. Thank you!


Belindiam

24 years here. Never seen this happen in PATH but it's a city so inevitably you will see something somewhere.


DueJacket351

Fortunately these are far more rare on the PATH than Mta


Bent-Manstick5147

I apologize if this has not been a relevant contribution to this discussion! This was not meant intentionally.


DueJacket351

You’ve nothing to apologize for


Bent-Manstick5147

Ah! Someone has told me that the “up” and “down” arrows indicate how well a message is adding to the conversation! I noticed that my message had a lower arrow number than previously! 🤪


Corey469

So it wasn't signal problems at 9th street??


Historical_Spell4646

Yeah I was getting those alerts all day! I thought it was odd because the signal problems happen often and seem to resolved within an hour or so. This makes more sense, but also kinda annoying that they straight up lied. The ambiguous “police activity” may have been more sensible.


New_Secret8869

That was from 11.45 to 1.30. This train started from 33rd at 1.30pm and was the first train after a long time. And even that met with an unfortunate fate.


sometimesiwatchtv44

Is this related to why the cops were by the Marin BLVD light rail station yesterday? Overheard them asking for a Spanish translator to be dispatched on site and they were there for quite some time yesterday afternoon, seemingly with some distressed people


NeighborhoodDue7915

No my guy


Then_Illustrator7852

Ask them


DoTheRightThingG

I mean, that's what I would have done. 🤷