Jersey Shore beach town unleashes extreme tactics to bury viral teen mayhem for Memorial Day weekend

A New Jersey enactment municipality is calling successful an awesome amusement of unit successful mentation for Memorial Day weekend, pursuing a surge of viral teen takeovers, "pop-up parties" and a past of chaos.

Officials successful Seaside Heights, location of the iconic "Jersey Shore" tv series, are vowing to deploy a litany of preventive measures — specified arsenic FBI support, SWAT teams and mounted officers — successful an effort to curb unit inflicted connected the municipality by rowdy teenagers.

The borough began preparing for the upcoming Memorial Day play successful September, aft authorities grappled with 2 back-to-back seasons of summertime unit that overwhelmed officials and wreaked havoc connected the shores. 

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People bask the Jersey Shore successful Seaside Heights, N.J., arsenic businesses hole for the vacation play connected May 23, 2025. (Asbury Park Press via IMAGN)

"Last year, we prepared ourselves and we thought we did a beauteous bully occupation – until that weekend. The fig of young radical that came was unbelievable," Mayor Tommy Vaz told Fox News Digital. 

In 2025, astir 100,000 radical visited Seaside Heights for the holiday, according to NJ.com. Authorities yet made much than 70 arrests implicit the people of the weekend, including 21 minors, and the boardwalk was temporarily unopen down aft 3 abstracted stabbing incidents. 

One twelvemonth earlier, mendacious reports of gunfire reportedly led to chaos and sent swarms of teens fleeing the packed beaches. 

As a result, Seaside Heights officials person requested FBI support, SWAT teams, Homeland Security agents, mounted authorities troopers and an summation successful roving officers to instrumentality to the beaches connected Memorial Day weekend.

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Police escort a detained antheral aft a stabbing incidental connected a fashionable boardwalk successful Seaside Heights, New Jersey during Memorial Day play successful 2025. (Assemblyman Paul Kanitra/Facebook)

"We’re bringing successful each our manpower that we have," Vaz said. "And with these added instrumentality enforcement agencies, we're going to spot a strategical program successful place." 

Officials are hoping the beingness of further instrumentality enforcement agencies volition discourage a emergence of unsanctioned societal events promoted by young radical connected societal media – oregon what Vaz refers to arsenic "pop-up parties." 

"If idiosyncratic puts connected societal media, ‘Come down to Seaside Heights, bring your booze. It doesn't substance if you're 10 [years old], oregon 15, oregon 18. Come connected down’ – our guys spot it close away," Vaz said.

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People bask the prima and a crippled of spike shot connected the beach. Memorial Day play gets underway on the beaches and boardwalks of the Jersey Shore with summer-like upwind conditions. Seaside Heights, NJ Friday, May 24, 2024. (Doug Hood/Asbury Park Press / USA TODAY NETWORK)

Additionally, the Seaside Heights Police Department has 2 dedicated officers tasked with combing societal media successful hunt of planned, unsanctioned events. 

"We find the radical that are doing it, and we've enactment a tribunal injunction," Vaz said. 

Vaz added that section officials person already enactment a halt to six unsanctioned "pop-up parties" up of Memorial Day weekend, but his interest besides centers astir rowdy teenagers who program to travel to the enactment without organizing connected societal media.

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"It's happening successful suburban areas, it's happening successful different states," Vaz said. "We look astatine it arsenic a occupation with enforcement – consequences for the young radical that person disrespect. Any bully kid tin travel down, and find himself with a radical and get involved." 

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In an effort to nonstop a connection to immoderate minors readying to descend connected the Jersey Shore for a play of lawbreaking and recklessness, Vaz is vowing to prosecute some the offending kid and their parents.

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"It's the kid that says, ‘You can't marque maine permission and you can’t bash thing to maine due to the fact that I'm not 18.’ Well, conjecture what? We're gonna bash thing to you. We're going to summon you and summon your parents," Vaz told Fox News Digital.

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"This has got to halt – not lone successful Seaside, but nationwide."

Last year, erstwhile Gov. Phil Murphy signed authorities that holds parents criminally liable for their children’s behavior. Anyone recovered to beryllium successful usurpation could look a maximum of six months successful jailhouse and up to $1,000 successful fines.

Additionally, officials person introduced a bid of caller measures successful an effort to quell the imaginable for chaos successful the upcoming season. 

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"We’ve changed ordinances, curfew times, rental facilities to underage children and young people, and truthful forth," Vaz said.

A caller curfew implemented wrong the borough prohibits anyone nether the property of 18 from being retired connected the streets past 10 p.m. without a guardian, and minors indispensable person an big contiguous for short-term lodging rentals, according to Vaz. 

"But successful the lawsuit of our ordinance, we've approved that the concern head – with a consultation from myself and the main of constabulary – tin alteration that curfew," Vaz added.

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In airy of the preparations, Vaz hopes the accrued instrumentality enforcement beingness volition bring a consciousness of calm to the picturesque Jersey Shore up of yet different Memorial Day weekend. 

"We're conscionable hoping that it's a peaceful weekend, and we privation radical to cognize that we're a destination with a batch of household activities," Vaz said. "We're geared to that now, families – and that's the backbone of our community." 

Similar incidents involving teenagers overtaking communities are continuing to plague the Jersey Shore arsenic the upwind warms up.

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Earlier this month, authorities successful adjacent Wildwood served 2 promoters with cease-and-desist orders stemming from alleged unsanctioned events planned for Memorial Day play circulating connected societal media. The individuals are besides expected to beryllium charged with disturbance astatine a nationalist gathering for "inciting these types of unsanctioned takeovers," the Wildwood Police Department said successful a societal media post.

"We person been readying to mitigate the imaginable nationalist information concerns associated with these types of unsanctioned takeovers," Chief Joseph Murphy said successful a statement. "The precise quality of these investigations are precise hard owed to the galore societal media platforms being utilized to beforehand these unsanctioned takeovers."

In effect to the increasing trend, metropolis officials person implemented a 10 p.m. curfew for each unaccompanied minors and announced the boardwalk volition beryllium closed to the nationalist year-round from 1 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Additionally, six radical were arrested Tuesday nighttime connected charges including disorderly behaviour and eluding constabulary successful transportation with different unsanctioned lawsuit successful Long Branch, according to authorities.

Authorities from galore section agencies reportedly made a fractional twelve arrests during a viral "teen takeover" successful Long Branch, New Jersey connected Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (@bucketlist_brittbritt via Instagram)

The incidental unfolded successful Pier Village — a sprawling oceanfront assemblage clad with rental units and hotels — aft authorities said a ample mob of teens were observed inciting brawls, jumping connected cars and contributing to "disorder" crossed the boardwalk.

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The chaos forced 139 officers from aggregate section agencies to beryllium deployed to the scene, arsenic metropolis officials implemented an exigency 8 p.m. curfew successful an effort to nonstop the youngsters home.

Video shows dozens of officers — immoderate carrying riot shields — corralling the ample radical successful the mediate of the street.

"With Memorial Day play approaching, the Long Branch Police Department, successful coordination with the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office and their determination communal assistance partners, volition support a strong, disposable beingness passim the beachfront and downtown corridors," Long Branch metropolis officials said successful a statement. "Anyone who travels to Long Branch intending to prosecute successful unit oregon upset should expect to beryllium arrested and prosecuted."

Fox News Digital's Ashley Papa contributed to this report.