Three times is sometimes a charm. In the case of one Galloway man, it was apparently the opposite. And it all happened in the aftermath of a hurricane. The 38-year-old received multiple charges after allegedly causing three separate accidents on the same night in one hour, according to police. Luckily, in each of the first two accidents none of the victims were hurt, police said. However, as the descriptions piled up from each, the third accident (only involving the alleged perpetrator) led to the man's arrest for all three — and possession of suspected heroin. Each Monday, Patch takes a peek…

Sometimes, police really have their work cut out for them at a crime scene. They've got to canvass for witnesses. They've got to collect fingerprints, fibers and hairs. They've got to look for the slightest signs of disturbance, any subtle clues that might track back to the bad guy. And sometimes, the bad guy just makes things easy for them. That's what Madison police say happened when they were investigating a robbery at an office. They found one particularly helpful piece of evidence—the alleged burglar's wallet. We know the folks at American Express like to tell people "Don't leave home …

It's been kind of a slow week. No, really. With Patch serving nearly 100 communities throughout New Jersey, we don't usually have much trouble finding some seriously jaw-drop-worthy (if not head-smack-worthy) incidents each Monday to feature in our "OMGs from NJ PDs." There's a lot of things you can call New Jersey's criminal element—but "graceful" isn't one of them, which gives us plenty of fodder. Like there was that time we told you about the guy police say shoved $100 worth of razors down his pants. Or the woman who, police say,refused to pull up her own pants. We like anything involving …

As the song goes, if you like it then you should have put an egg on it. That is the lyric, right? No? Then what on earth was this guy thinking? South Brunswick police say things went a little rotten when a ... let's call him an enthusiastic fan... just wouldn't stay away from a mobile home park where Beyonce was shooting a new music video. The man was first asked to leave the set of the video by the mobile home community's staff after he was yelling and acting out, police said. They said he appeared intoxicated, but friends agreed to drive him home. "At first he was yelling that he wanted to …

Cops say this crime had Andrea Bove's name written all over it. No, really. They literally mean his name was written down on the evidence. While patrolling the old Essex County Hospital Center on Fairview Avenue in Cedar Grove, officers noticed an open door and investigated further, police said Working with the Essex County Sheriff's Department, they found two lengths of freshly cut copper pipe, and a bucket of tools nearby, police said. Officers were getting ready to search the rest of the building when two men emerged from a wooded area nearby, police said. Both readily admitted removing …

You think you've been hot and uncomfortable this past week? Just be glad you're not covered with fur. The heat got to be too much to bear for one, well, bear, as a Dana Strus of North Caldwell learned. She looked out her window Tuesday and saw a black bear in her yard splashing around in her pool. The mother of one (with another on the way) did what one does in 2011 when something odd happens—she stepped out onto the patio to photograph and video her new friend Fozzie (and, lucky us, she was kind enough to share the video with Patch). We can only imagine that 20 minutes later, the bear's …

Which is more punishing—the law or a scorned spouse? Springfield police say one man was betting on the latter, when he allegedly lied to them about being robbed. It turns out, police say, the man had been at a go-go bar in Newark, and got lost driving home, eventually winding up in Springfield. When his wife became worried he was late, she kept calling him, and he eventually told her he'd just been robbed at gunpoint—rather than admit he was at the go-go bar, police said. But things got a little more complicated when the wife offered to call 911 for the man, police said. He instead told her …

Somebody did something bad to someone else who was sort of related to the first guy, but maybe not. That's about as far as our brains got when trying to make sense of a case where a 25-year-old Deptford man pleaded guilty to attacking someone else with a knife at a baby shower. In his plea, the man said the victim “was beating up on my little sister and a fight broke out”—a fight that led to the victim receiving a chest laceration, a broken rib and a collapsed lung. Ok. We're following it so far. But the next few details, courtesy of West Deptford Patch, had us struggling to understand the …