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Cops crash Ewing ‘Corona Party’ as COVID-19 death toll rises, testing site opens March 31.....
A township man hosted a large “Corona Party” in violation of Gov. Phil Murphy’s stay-at-home executive order, Ewing Police announced Saturday.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on New Jersey and beyond, Wade E. Jackson, 54, ignored the governor’s social distancing guidelines and organized a house party on the 300 block of Concord Avenue, authorities alleged.
Responding to an anonymous call about 1 a.m. Saturday, Ewing Police found more than 40 attendees inside the apartment, forcing cops to disperse the crowd and shut down the festivities in the name of public health, police said Saturday in a news release.
The event featured alcohol and smelled of marijuana, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Jackson, the renter of the apartment, told cops he was throwing a “Corona Party,” police said, adding the tenant had “ended the party” after police told him he was in violation of Murphy’s sweeping Executive Order No. 107.
“Gatherings of individuals, such as parties, celebrations, or other social events, are cancelled, unless otherwise authorized by any part of this Order,” Murphy states in Paragraph 5 of his sweeping edict.
“NO CORONA PARTIES. They’re illegal, dangerous, and stupid,” Murphy said Saturday via tweet. “We will crash your party. You will pay a big fine. And we will name & shame you until EVERYONE gets this message into their heads.”
In an earlier tweet, Murphy said: “Ewing Township Police broke up a party with 47 people — including a DJ — crammed into a 550-square foot apartment. The organizer was charged, as they should have been and deserved to be. This is not a game. Stay home. Be smart.”
Murphy’s social distancing guidelines are intended to prevent community spread of COVID-19, a highly contagious respiratory illness that has already killed 140 New Jerseyans and more than 1,600 Americans across the nation as of Saturday afternoon.
Enforcing Murphy’s law, township cops crashed the house party on Concord Avenue and released everyone except for the tenant, identified as Jackson, charging him with two disorderly persons offenses — obstructing administration of law and violating an executive order. Almost all of the people at the party were squeezed together inside, with a handful outside of the residence, according to the prosecutor’s office.
“The goal was to break up the party and send everyone home,” County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said Saturday in a press statement. “Based on safety and resources, police made the right call to only issue citations to the host.”
But the prosecutor also gave a stern reminder to the public to heed the governor’s executive orders.
“These are mandates, not suggestions,” Onofri said. “Mercer County and the entire state of New Jersey will not tolerate such irresponsible, criminal behavior, and violators will be prosecuted. Not only are these actions illegal, but in a time where such reckless conduct could endanger family, loved ones, first responders and the community at large, they are also unethical.”
Mercer County is opening a COVID-19 drive-up testing site in the parking lot of the Quaker Bridge Mall. Officials stress that it is appointment-only through primary doctors.
Rich Hundley III —The Trentonian

Cops crash Ewing ‘Corona Party’ as COVID-19 death toll rises, testing site opens March 31.....
A township man hosted a large “Corona Party” in violation of Gov. Phil Murphy’s stay-at-home executive order, Ewing Police announced Saturday.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on New Jersey and beyond, Wade E. Jackson, 54, ignored the governor’s social distancing guidelines and organized a house party on the 300 block of Concord Avenue, authorities alleged.
Responding to an anonymous call about 1 a.m. Saturday, Ewing Police found more than 40 attendees inside the apartment, forcing cops to disperse the crowd and shut down the festivities in the name of public health, police said Saturday in a news release.
The event featured alcohol and smelled of marijuana, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Jackson, the renter of the apartment, told cops he was throwing a “Corona Party,” police said, adding the tenant had “ended the party” after police told him he was in violation of Murphy’s sweeping Executive Order No. 107.
“Gatherings of individuals, such as parties, celebrations, or other social events, are cancelled, unless otherwise authorized by any part of this Order,” Murphy states in Paragraph 5 of his sweeping edict.
“NO CORONA PARTIES. They’re illegal, dangerous, and stupid,” Murphy said Saturday via tweet. “We will crash your party. You will pay a big fine. And we will name & shame you until EVERYONE gets this message into their heads.”
In an earlier tweet, Murphy said: “Ewing Township Police broke up a party with 47 people — including a DJ — crammed into a 550-square foot apartment. The organizer was charged, as they should have been and deserved to be. This is not a game. Stay home. Be smart.”
Murphy’s social distancing guidelines are intended to prevent community spread of COVID-19, a highly contagious respiratory illness that has already killed 140 New Jerseyans and more than 1,600 Americans across the nation as of Saturday afternoon.
Enforcing Murphy’s law, township cops crashed the house party on Concord Avenue and released everyone except for the tenant, identified as Jackson, charging him with two disorderly persons offenses — obstructing administration of law and violating an executive order. Almost all of the people at the party were squeezed together inside, with a handful outside of the residence, according to the prosecutor’s office.
“The goal was to break up the party and send everyone home,” County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said Saturday in a press statement. “Based on safety and resources, police made the right call to only issue citations to the host.”
But the prosecutor also gave a stern reminder to the public to heed the governor’s executive orders.
“These are mandates, not suggestions,” Onofri said. “Mercer County and the entire state of New Jersey will not tolerate such irresponsible, criminal behavior, and violators will be prosecuted. Not only are these actions illegal, but in a time where such reckless conduct could endanger family, loved ones, first responders and the community at large, they are also unethical.”
Mercer County is opening a COVID-19 drive-up testing site in the parking lot of the Quaker Bridge Mall. Officials stress that it is appointment-only through primary doctors.
Rich Hundley III —The Trentonian
