Aberdeen, Old Bridge Women Slap, Spit on Police Officers: Chief

Aberdeen, NJ - An Aberdeen woman and an Old Bridge woman were arrested Monday morning after they allegedly fled from a hit-and-run on Highway 35, and then slapped and spit on police officers who tried to bring them into custody.

Tess Fonseca, 22, of Cottage Place in Aberdeen, and Jenna Custer, 20, of Prospect Avenue in Old Bridge, were arrested, police said.

Officers were called to Cottage Place at 9:15 a.m. Monday for a report of a female in a vehicle, possibly unresponsive.

They were waved down by Fonseca, who appeared to be intoxicated, police said. She said she was unable to wake the woman in the car, later identified as Custer.

The officers determined that Custer was conscious, but apparently intoxicated. A glass marijuana pipe and a small amount of suspected marijuana were found in the car. The vehicle had significant damage and it fit the description of a car that had been involved in a hit-and-run crash earlier Monday morning, at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Hwy. 35.

Officers then tried to arrest Fonseca, who fit the description of the hit-and-run driver. But she physically resisted the officers’ attempts to take her into custody and slapped one of them, Aberdeen Chief of Police John Powers said. Custer then spit on the other officer as the women were driven back to headquarters, he said.

Both women were charged with drug and paraphernalia possession, and Fonseca was also charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, as well as reckless driving, leaving the scene of a crash, and failure to report a crash.

Custer was charged with throwing bodily fluids on a law enforcement officer.