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Woman charged with false alarm atWoodbridge Center BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer
WOODBRIDGE - A 23-year-old Edison female was arrested and charged with creating a false public alarm at the Woodbridge Center mall last week.
Police are withholding the woman's name because of her psychiatric condition, police said.
Police were dispatched to the mall at 3:28 p.m. March 6 on a 911 call to the Woodbridge Center mall on a report of a woman with a gun, police said.
The woman who had made the call stated that she was at the mall with a gun and was leaving the bathroom and walking around the mall with the gun, the police report said.
Police dispatch called the number back, but the unknown female had turned her phone off. Police were able to trace the cell phone number back to the female, who resided in Edison, the police report said.
Several police units including mall security were given the woman's Motor Vehicle Commission photo.Acomplete check of the mall was done; however, according to police, the woman could not be found.
During that time, Edison police were contacted to check the woman's address.
Edison police stated that the woman was home and they asked to see her cell phone.
The cell phone revealed that there was a 911 call made at 3:23 p.m.
The woman's mother told police that her daughter has psychiatric problems and is on many medications and is being treated at a hospital.
The mother also told police that they do not own any guns and that they have never owned any guns, the police report said.
The woman was released on her own recognizance pending that she went to the hospital and was seen by her doctor, police said.
The woman's cell phone was seized and placed into evidence, police said.
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