Maplewood Police Respond to Two Disputes at Local Businesses

This past week, Maplewood police responded to a dispute at a business on Newark Way and a fight at the Burger King on Springfield Avenue, making an arrest in the first incident.

On Monday, December 12, Maplewood officers arrested Erroll Thompson, 28, of Maplewood, after finding that he had allegedly damaged a door to a Newark Way business by smashing it with a silver aluminum baseball bat. Thompson had apparently accused a worker of stealing headlights from his vehicle. Thompson was arrested and charged with a variety of offenses including possession of a weapon (the baseball bat).

On Friday, December 9, officers responded to the restaurant at 1833 Springfield Avenue on a report of a fight in progress. The caller had reported that five men had jumped a customer in the restaurant. At the restaurant, the victim told police that he had become engaged in a verbal altercation with another diner who was accompanied by four other men. He reported that the group of five 20-23 year olds circled him in the store and then began to punch and kick him before leaving in a vehicle east on Springfield Avenue. The man reported that he was not injured and that nothing was taken from him.