On June 6, 2024, at approximately 8:50 p.m., Police Officers Rose Kanan and Jason Montalvo responded to ACME, 614 Clinton St., on reports of a shoplifting. A description of the actor in this case matched the description of someone who had attempted to shoplift from CVS, 59 Washington St., earlier in the day whom officers identified as 39-year-old male of Jersey City. The officers viewed store surveillance footage from the ACME and saw Johnson enter the store, place multiple soap packages in a bag and leave without paying. Police Officers Christopher Barral and Marc Lombardi located the suspect in the area of Second and Bloomfield Streets, where he was placed under arrest. While he was being arrested, he took a glass vial with suspected CDS PCP out of his pocket and threw it on the ground, causing the glass to shatter and liquid to splash out. A search incident to arrest located another glass vial with brown burnt residue suspected to be CDS PCP. He was transported to Hoboken Police Headquarters and charged with possession of CDS, shoplifting, evidence tampering, and possession of drug paraphernalia. After processing him was transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility. He was later additionally charged with defiant trespassing for going into the CVS earlier in the day, despite having been advised multiple times he was no longer allowed in the store and that he would be issued a summons as a defiant trespasser if he went inside. These charges are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. An arrest is not a finding of guilt: that’s something for a court to decide.

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