Hazlet: Man Smashed Car Windows, Fled From Police, Officials Say

HAZLET, NJ — A Keansburg man went on an apparent wild rampage throughout Hazlet Saturday night, allege Hazlet police, smashing parked car windows with a baseball bat and running from police.

Police think more damage may have been done: If you live in the area of Tralee Drive or Liberty Place, Hazlet police ask that you review your home surveillance systems, and Nest and Ring, and report anything unusual that happened Saturday night.

Hazlet police were first called to a home at 1:54 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 for a call for a domestic assault that happened earlier that evening. The residents of the home told police the man fled on foot in the area of the Garden State Parkway at approximately mile marker 118.

Hazlet police issued a warrant for his arrest.

Then at 4:34 a.m. Sunday, Hazlet police got a call of a man using a baseball bat to smash the windows out of a parked car in the area of Tralee Road. The caller said he was wearing a ski mask and was last seen fleeing on foot towards Ennis Drive.

Hazlet and Holmdel police arrived and canvassed the scene, also using a police K9. As they were doing that, they received another call from the area of Liberty Place where the homeowner reported that a man wearing a ball cap and wielding a baseball bat destroyed their car as well as their home's front door.

A short time later at 5:21 a.m., the man was eventually located at his home in Keansburg, with the assistance of Keansburg police.

He was arrested without incident, and police did not release his name. Police say all three incidents are related and there is no threat to the public.

You can call Hazlet police at 732-264-6565 or www.hazletpd.org./ Calls can be anonymous.