A Hoboken man who is a repeat offender was caught with crack cocaine and heroin, stripped naked while be processed at police headquarters, the department said in their police blotter.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
On March 24th at approximately 10:40 p.m., Police Officers Nasir Willey and Harold Milne responded to the 600 block of Sixth Street to conduct a sweep of a residential building, in response to complaints of non-residents trespassing.
They located an individual they recognized as Phillip Steed, 42, of Hoboken, sitting on the steps of a stairwell as Police Officers Anthony Hochstadter and Marc Lombardo arrived on the scene. Steed was placed under arrest for defiant trespassing.
He received a 10-year prison sentence in August 2017 for repeated drug offenses, The Jersey Journal reported, but public records did not show why he was released early.
A search incident to arrest was conducted and located 152 clear plastic bags each tied in a knot containing suspected crack cocaine, 151 white wax folds with various stamps suspected to be heroin, and two glass vials containing a brown liquid suspected to be PCP.
He was transported to Hoboken Police Headquarters, where he took off all his clothes and refused to be photographed and fingerprinted.
He was charged with possession with intent to distribute CDS heroin/cocaine, possession with intent to distribute narcotics, possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of school property, possession with intent to distribute within 500 feet of public housing property, possession of drug paraphernalia, and refusal to be fingerprinted.
When officers attempted to transport Steed to the Hudson County Correctional Facility on
March 25, 2024, at approximately 3:30 p.m., he refused to put his clothes back on, and became verbally abusive, combative, and physically violent with officers.
He flailed his arms while officers were trying to handcuff him, lunged toward officers, kicked one in the stomach and another in the leg, and spit at officers.
Police Officers Kyle Seper, Jessica Pizanie, Andrias Bonilla, and Mark Moreman were eventually able to place Steed in handcuffs, but he continuously refused to get dressed and refused to walk out of the cell. Officers placed a sheet over him and carried him to the car for transport to HCCF.
As a result, he was further charged with aggravated assault on law enforcement, throwing bodily fluids, and criminal mischief, authorities said.
It is very troubling that someone who has a long criminal record to be free and walking around Hoboken.
Everyone knows the system is broken