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Posted at 6:17 AM EDT (1017 GMT)  Oct. 25th, 2006 -- On Sunday October 22, five men were arrested and charged with forging hand stamps to allow people to enter the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park without paying.
Upon being alerted by the theme park's security, five Jackson police officers responded and stopped a motor vehicle on the theme park's premesis. Sgt. Brian Geoghegan, patrol officers Fred Meabe, Michael Grochowski, Trevor Crowley, and Colin Menafra responded to the call, Sgt. Thomas Hratko said. The five individuals were in a passenger vehicle when it was stopped at 4:20 p.m. Sunday. The men were found with equipment to make and check hand stamps to gain entry into the park. Included in the findings were hand stamps, latex gloves, baby powder and an ultraviolet light, Hratko said. All five men were charged with forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and possession of a forgery device. Multiple drug charges were also handed out against the four Union men and one Queens man for possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The men were held in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River: Chin was held in lieu of $125,000 bail, Garcia in lieu of $100,000 bail, Clark in lieu of $85,000 bail. Doherty and Williams were held in lieu of $75,000 bail, said Sgt. Edward Bennett.
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Katie
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Wow, looks like Six Flags prices make people really desperate. That's just sad.
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| 10/25/2006 7:28 AM |
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I love DW
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A smaller addmission price could have prevented it all. lol.
Well i'm glad Six Flags called the cops though.
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| 10/25/2006 8:20 AM |
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James
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I have seen stuff like this happen at PKD.. Guy got a hand stamp then try'd to rub it off on a guy next to him.
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| 10/25/2006 1:23 PM |
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Wes
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^ I know some friends that used to do that at Carowinds.
I was none too happy to think that people were probably doing the same thing at other parks as well.
If you don't want to pay, then don't go.
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| 10/25/2006 1:46 PM |
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SFGAFan4
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I think they should eliminate the stamp and give a re-entrance pass, with your picture and the date on it.
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| 10/25/2006 2:46 PM |
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mikey53
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A re-entry pass with a pic would cost major mullah (something they don't have much of right now) to keep in operation considering how many people transverse through those gates on a daily basis. I am glad that those scammers got caught.
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| 10/25/2006 4:14 PM |
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Jerry S
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They should give outwristbands instead of hand stamps. Or both, for double protection.
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| 10/25/2006 4:53 PM |
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I love DW
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The wristband would work great, because they could say Six Flags on them and no one else is going to have them then. And to put them on someone else you have to cut or brake them. Then when you re-enter they could cut them off at the gate then they would be usless.
And the pass with photo way to much money to spend just so someone can re-enter.
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| 10/25/2006 5:44 PM |
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Thunderhawk
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People will do anything to save a few bucks... I've even heard of forged season parking passes first hand.
This park really attracts la creme de la creme, doesn't it?
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| 10/25/2006 8:47 PM |
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Chris L
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^^^ The thing with the wristbands is that producing them on a mass scale for thousands of guests EVERY day would be too expensive just to weed out the extremely small percentage of individuals that attempt and actually get away with gaining entry without paying.
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| 10/25/2006 10:14 PM |
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James R
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In addition to Chris' comments, visitors could easily save the wrist band and come back another day posing as a visitor who left the park earlier that day, although there are things that can be invented to counter-act that, it would be just too much of a hassle.
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| 10/25/2006 11:47 PM |
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rjholla2003
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Or they can pull a Knoebles and stamp "Tuesday" (Or whatever day) on your hand in pen ink. You're not washing that off, and it's dry very quickly.
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| 10/26/2006 7:18 AM |
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Mrceagle
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I need to remember to leave my hand help black light at him when I go to fright fest. don't want to be falsely accused. But please if your going to forge hand stamps you didn't bring drugs along with you.
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| 10/26/2006 9:50 PM |
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w00dland
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Way to go Six Flags, your high prices have caught drug using criminals!
I wonder if they can catch something even better next time.
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| 10/27/2006 1:44 PM |
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usmc7046
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I have to agree with the wristband use. It is actually a great way to keep track. Where I live we have an amusement park that hands them out to everyone in the car, they are color coded and date coded so there is no way to forge them. Instead of a ticket that is what you receive. They do sell tickets as well to organizations/companies and when you turn your ticket in you get your wristband for the day. There is no telling what color to use and you definitely cannot accurately forge the date stamp because it is a series code not an actual date.
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