Woman Bites EMS Worker During Heavy Metal Concert at PNC Arts Center, State Troopers Say

Holmdel, NJ - A Morris County woman has been charged with biting an emergency medical technician while he was trying to give her first aid during a heavy metal concert at the PNC Bank Arts Arena in Holmdel last Sunday night.

The incident happened Sunday evening, July 31, during the Disturbed concert at the venue, New Jersey State Police said, as it was state troopers who made the arrest. The woman, Elizabeth Chirichiello, 36, of Pequannock Township in Morris County, was charged with simple assault after police said she bit the uniformed EMT worker while he was trying to give her aid.

She was then charged with kicking state troopers and flailing her arms as they were trying to subdue and arrest her, a fourth-degree crime. Disturbed is a heavy metal band based out of Detroit.