DUI Lawyer Serving Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant Borough is the road to the beach, not the beach itself, and that geography shapes the DWI cases that come out of it.
The boardwalk, the inlet and the bars sit in neighboring Point Pleasant Beach, a separate borough with its own police department and its own court. To get there and back, nearly everyone drives through this borough: Route 88, which the borough knows as Ocean Road, brings cars in from Route 70 and Brick, crosses the Point Pleasant Canal on a lift bridge and ends at Route 35 on the line between the two towns, while Bridge Avenue, Arnold Avenue, Beaver Dam Road and River Road carry the rest of the summer volume past year-round homes and the marinas along the Manasquan River. The stops happen on that return trip, at the signals and the bridge approaches, and because the two Point Pleasants share one ZIP code and run two separate courts, the summons decides the courtroom: a stop by borough police is charged under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50 and answered at Point Pleasant Borough Municipal Court, 2233 Bridge Avenue, Point Pleasant, NJ 08742, whatever the evening looked like a few blocks east. The charge is proved with the details of the stop, the roadside tests, the breath testing and the records behind the Alcotest, and each of those is something we examine before you decide anything. Contact us for a free consultation the same day you are released.
What We Know About Point Pleasant Cases
The borough's DWI stops are pass-through stops: the driver was usually heading home from the beach, the boardwalk or a boat on the Manasquan River and was pulled over on Route 88, Bridge Avenue, Arnold Avenue or one of the side streets that connect Brick with Point Pleasant Beach, so the police report often begins with a lane drift or a rolling stop rather than a crash.
Because Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach are different boroughs with different courts that share one ZIP code, the first thing we check is which department made the arrest and which court name is printed on the summons, since a borough arrest is heard at 2233 Bridge Avenue while a stop a few blocks east belongs to a different courtroom with its own calendar.
The lift bridges are the borough's own stop story: when the Route 88 or Bridge Avenue span goes up, a line of cars sits for minutes, and what the officer says happened when it came down, a slow start, a drift, a brake tap, is the reason for the stop the State has to justify, so we read the dashboard video against the report before accepting its version of why you were pulled over.