Montclair Men Arrested For Fighting On Glenridge Avenue: Police

Montclair, NJ – Montclair police arrested David Blakely, 25, of East Orange, last week, marking the seventh time that the Essex County resident has made the local police blotter in the past three years.

According to the Montclair Police Department, officers arrested Blakely and Lander Ceaser, 34, of Montclair, after observing them get into a physical altercation on Glenridge Avenue on March 15.

After Blakely and Ceaser allegedly disregarded officers’ orders to stop and continued to fight, police arrested the pair, charging Blakely with disorderly conduct and obstruction, and Ceaser with being under the influence of a CDS.

Monday’s arrest wasn’t the first encounter that Blakely has had with local cops.

• On June 18, police arrested Blakely for open warrants after he allegedly entered a Bloomfield Avenue restaurant and engaged in a physical altercation with the staff.
• In 2014, police arrested Blakely for robbery and criminal mischief after he allegedly got into a fight with an 18-year-old male who dropped a gift card on the ground, damaging the front door of the Bloomfield Avenue Bank of America in the process.
• In 2014, police arrested Blakely for disorderly conduct at the Lackawanna Plaza Pathmark after arriving to find him “intoxicated and arguing with security.”
• In 2013, Blakely allegedly stole his grandmother’s boyfriend’s car and crashed into several parked cars on Greenwood Avenue while intoxicated.
• Around 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day in 2013, police arrested Blakely on Greenwood Avenue for unlawful possession of a weapon – an eight-inch kitchen knife – which was tucked into the waistline of his pants.

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