Carrier Clinic Staff Injured During Attack By 6 Teens: Police

MONTGOMERY, NJ — Two Carrier Clinic staff members were injured following an attack by six teens in Montgomery, police reported.

A fight involving eight teens with staff members at the East Mountain Youth Lodge at Carrier Clinic at 252 County Road 601 was reported on July 11 at 9:58 p.m.

When Montgomery Township Police arrived they found six juvenile males being physically restrained by staff members, police reported.

The six juveniles — ranging in ages from 14 to 17 and were from Freehold, Camden, Dover, Tinton Falls, Princeton and Asbury Park — were placed under arrest and transported to Montgomery Township Police headquarters.

One of the victims, a 32-year-old staff member, was transported to Robert Wood Johnson Somerset for further medical treatment.

The Somerset County Prosecutors Office authorized juvenile delinquency complaints against the six teens for aggravated assault on a health care worker, a third-degree crime.

As a result of the juvenile delinquency complaint, five of the juveniles were ordered to be held in detention at the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, in North Brunswick. The sixth juvenile was placed on home detention and released from police custody to a guardian.

The Montgomery Township Police Department was assisted by Montgomery EMS Squad 47.

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