Man high on drugs hangs off fire escape at Eastern Pkwy, Jersey City NJ

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/1/2025 01:23 PM

Near Eastern Pkwy, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Police responded to a call about a man high on drugs at near Eastern Parkway close to Ocean and Garfield in Jersey City. The caller’s phone number was disconnected. Officers found the man hanging off a fire escape on the third floor. He refused to come down and needed help to be safely removed from the fire escape.

Audio|Source: Jersey City Police

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Transcript:

00:00

All right, making way of near Eastern Parkway, that's near Eastern Park. We got another male high on drugs.

00:07

Empezee all the time.

00:11

CDEb-Ced, that's going to be near Eastern Parkway?

00:15

That's correct, near Eastern Parkway off the Ocean and Garfield.

00:22

Near six.

00:26

OS2, this call by console don't get those numbers disconnected.

00:38

Yeah, the callback for this one is no good.

00:41

Says the number is disconnected.

00:44

I receive, but that's going to be no cussle good.

00:47

Receive?

00:50

Five,

00:53

we're going off.

00:56

See.

01:01

So, you can go to top of the CIA.

01:07

1627

01:12

Each once. It's going to be just a loud verbal,

01:21

all advice.

01:22

Thank you for the backup.

01:25

We see, now verbal or that much.

01:31

We're going to be on a quick picture, measure.

01:35

That was what you mean?

01:42

Uh-huh.

01:46

Quick distribution.

01:48

Okay. Okay. Okay.

01:54

Hey.

01:56

Okay.

02:00

Put us on 88 Whitman getting flagged now.

02:05

Give me more when I get it.

02:08

Okay.

02:13

So far.

02:15

Again.

02:18

Highly IPing. He don't want to come down. He's like literally hanging off the stairs. We go to the third floor.

02:25

You might want to reach out to the boss.

02:27

Maybe he needs to come over here and help out.

02:34

This regard, boss is here.

02:37

Okay.

02:39

Yeah, sorry, I'm scared. Yeah.

02:48

We're served.

02:54

We're good, but we definitely got a private need issue to come and help extract this gentleman from the fire escape here.

03:03

Gotcha.

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