Food Pickup At Hoboken Restaurant Leads To Arrest Of 3

HOBOKEN, NJ — Three out-of-state visitors in a Mercedes Benz apparently followed social distancing guidelines when picking up their food at a Hoboken restaurant, but ran afoul of the law because of how they paid, according to a release from the Hoboken police.

This past Friday, around 6:39 p.m., a restaurant on the waterfront told police that someone had placed a food order there over the phone. After the transaction was approved, the restaurant — Del Frisco's Grill — got a call from a man in Oregon saying he received an alert from his credit card company about the transaction, which he had not approved.

After the restaurant employee notified police, officers headed the two blocks to the location and learned that the order had not been picked up...yet.

Detective Michael Losurdo, Detective Adam Colon, and Detective Fabian Quinones waited. A uniformed patrol under the command of Lt. Ranaldo Gonzalez also investigated.

According to the police, Isaiah Baptiste, 20, from Bushkill, PA, Kaya Findlay, 20, from Brooklyn, and Jason Palmer, 20, from Brooklyn, arrived in a Mercedes Benz around 7:24 p.m. Baptiste attempted to pick up the order, police said.

Police arrested all three. According to police, they were charged with: fraudulent use of a credit card, credit card theft, theft of identity, uttering, theft by deception, conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, and committing an unauthorized act during a State of Emergency.

All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.