Police Arrest Three Men In Alleged Gang Activity

Hoboken police arrested three men for unlawful possession of weapons on Thursday night, according to police reports. 

The arrest had to do with gang-related activity, said Lt. Mark Competello. 

Police arrested Nicholas Alongi, 21, from Bayonne; Troy McMillan, 21, from Bayonne and Samuel Perez, 20, from Jersey City for possession of weapons for unlawful purpose, according to police reports.

The police had been tipped off that a shoot out would happen that night between rivals, according to reports. Around 11 p.m. one alleged gang member was driving around in a 2002 red Ford Explorer on Jackson Street, between Third and Fifth Streets, according to police reports. 

Around 11:15 p.m. a black Explorer with a New Jersey license plate appeared and started following the red car, police said. According to police reports the two vehicles "toyed with each other." Hoboken police kept following the vehicles, onto the 14th Street Viaduct into Union City, according to reports. 

After a short chase, the officers in the unmarked car put on their siren and stopped the black Explorer on Paterson Plank Road, according to reports.

However, before the police officers could get out of their car, one suspect had gotten out of the black Explorer, throwing a .45 caliber automatic handgun—which turned out to be a stolen firearm from Keysville, Virginia—on the floor, police said. From the car police said they also recovered a wooden axe handle and a metal hatchet.

After getting help from a canine unit from the Bergen County police, the Hoboken officers were led to a basement apartment on Central Avenue where they arrested Alongi, McMillan and Perez, according to police reports. 

At the apartment police also arrested Ruth Jones, 53, from Union City, who resisted arrest and knocked a flashlight out of the sergeant's hands, police said.