NJ Cop Asked Skateboarder For ID. Instead He Spit In His Face, Authorities Say

LAKEWOOD, NJ — A Lakewood teenager is accused of spitting in a Lakewood police officer's face after the teen refused to stop skateboarding in an active construction zone, police said.

Shmaya Schreiber, 18, was being held in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River pending a detention hearing on charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer (spitting), resisting arrest, possession of false government documents and unlawful possession of a weapon, Lakewood police said.

Schreiber was skateboarding through an active lane shift in a construction zone, "placing both himself and passing motorists in danger," police said.

Detective Stephen Nickens, who was working an extra-duty traffic assignment, saw Schreiber riding in the zone and told him multiple times to get out of the road for his safety, police said, but Schreiber ignored all the warnings.

Nickens then tried to stop Schreiber to get Schreiber's ID and issue him a ticket, but Schreiber became confrontational, police said, and spit directly in Nickens’ face and physically resisted arrest.

More police officers responded and Schreiber was arrested, police said.