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Meter Maid Charged With Obstructing Police

By Lependorf & Silverstein

A parking enforcement officer from Bayonne was criminally charged on Dec. 7 when her job interfered with police detectives? job, reports the Jersey Journal. Two police detectives were staking out a narcotics suspect in an unmarked car parked at a meter when the officer, Susan Wojtkowski, began writing them a ticket. They opened the window and explained that they were police officers, sparking an argument. While they talked, the suspect left the area. The detectives wanted to follow, but Wojtkowski refused to move away from the car until she had finished writing their ticket. Later that day, she was charged with obstructing a governmental function, which can be handled as either a criminal charge or as a minor infraction -- like a parking ticket...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on December 18, 2007 (boomark / email).