Police in Mantoloking have issued 36 summonses and made seven arrests since the full reopening of Route 35 through the storm-damaged borough.
Chris Nelson, special counsel for the borough's recovery effort, said at a borough council meeting Tuesday that the summonses include 12 issued for "unwanted tourism" and four for "scrapping."
The borough is defining unwanted tourism as motorists stopping their vehicles to take pictures of the destruction from Superstorm Sandy. Scrapping refers to motorists who enter the borough to illegally take away pieces of scrap metal.
"For the first time in my life, I saw a woman in her Mercedes driving 50 m.p.h. along Route 35 filming the length of the borough of Mantoloking," said Nelson.
A 25 m.p.h. speed limit is being strictly enforced between Mantoloking and the southern point in Ortley Beach, where Route 35 converges with Route 37.
Other tickets were issued for various traffic offenses, including four to people who were driving with suspended licenses.
"If your license is suspended, I wouldn't drive here," said Nelson. "The state police have a car that drives around and [automatically] reads your license plate."
The arrests included those who were taken to jail for disorderly conduct – specifically, a person who was fighting with a police officer who was trying to write a ticket – as well as trespassing.
The borough is being patrolled not only by local police, but state troopers who are in town due to the continued state of emergency declaration. They are accompanied by Ocean County Sheriff's Department officers in four wheel drive vehicles who are patrolling the beach, which is completely off-limits.
According to an earlier statement from Mantoloking Police Detective Lt. John Barkus, motorists are prohibited from driving or parking on side streets within Mantoloking without a resident permit.
The borough has been saturated with police vehicles since the state highway which runs through it reopened.
This guy, Hammski, isn't real. I recognize the style. He's just trying to create bad blood and then sit back and laugh to himself in his bedroom in his mother's house. He did the same thing during the election. He tried to come off as a conservative Republican saying some pretty offensive things. Some readers fell for it but he's like a little kid telling the same joke over and over and thinking it's just as funny no matter how many times he tells it.
You come across as a mean spirited decrepit man who wants nothing more to be left in his own swallar. You get some kind of a thrill resorting to non-productive name calling and apparently defending some area which you don't know anything about or don't live in or near, according to you. Years ago, I would probably have said that you and New Jersey would be pufact together. But, I have seen the resilience and resolve of those actively rebuilding and I think you deserve to be in the class of Imperial Mayor Hypocrite Bloomberg and his lap dog consort the Governor "Mini-Pious" Cuumo. You might be better off swimming back across the Hudson where you belong. But I'm afraid that you will try to ruin the spirits of those working hard to continue to put that City back together again, too.
charge a $2.00 to enter Rt 35 from Point Pleasant per car - exiting Mantoloking Bridge, then charge another $4.00 to continue to sea side. Then reverse the trip. $4.00 from Seaside to Mantoloking Bridge and another $2.00 to continue towards point. Why.? you'll be able to give a good portion back to all those residents who live there 50/50 split. Just run it for the next 3 months. This way everyone wins, The Towns get a cut and the people who are struggling there can get a check in 90days. you already know who lives there.? they all have FEMA numbers, they've all been identified to who's who.. what a great opportunity for tourism into the are for the next 90 days, and those people will be able to get something back.
"And no not a SSH winter renter but an affulent owner of two houses that does not live on the barrier island, but west of Toms River." Now all of a sudden, "some" of your multiple homes are on the barrier island...phony!
You are intentionally being nasty and disagreeable.