BRICK TOWNSHIP, NJ – Police in Brick say a bicyclist under the influence on crack cocaine charged and assaulted police after he was reported by multiple individuals loitering in parking lots in the vicinity of Route 88.
“On [Wednesday], at approximately 8:30 p.m. SCU observed a suspicious male riding a bicycle through various parking lots on Rt. 88,” the Brick Police Department said in a statement. “This male was stopping people in vehicles and on foot appearing to be loitering to obtain CDS. SCU detectives stopped Gerald Snyder, 39 years old from Brick Township, in the parking lot of Dollar Tree (1930 rt 88).”
Police reported, “During the investigation, it was determined he was under the influence of CDS. As detectives advised him he was under arrest, he charged at officers, and a scuffle began. He resisted arrest and during the scuffle he attempted to grab his pocket knife in his pocket.”
Mr. Snyder was placed under arrest and was found to have a quantity of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia on his person. Snyder was also charged with loitering to obtain CDS, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, resisting arrest, obstruction, possession of a weapon (pocket knife), possession of crack cocaine, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, and under the influence of a CDS. Snyder was processed and lodged in Ocean County Jail.