When a Town Tries to Criminalize a Disabled Black Woman for Driving While Existing:
The Glen Ridge Municipal Court’s Unconstitutional Power Grab
By Freedom Watch Investigative Desk (Journalist)
November 23, 2025
Glen Ridge, New Jersey: Meet Naomi Johnson: ordained minister, host of the Noneillah Talk Show, a medically disabled Black woman with chronic pain, PTSD, and mobility impairments. On February 24, 2025, she was traveling privately in her 1995 Mustang (handicap plates, ministerial plaque, groceries in the back) when Glen Ridge Police Sergeant Anthony Mazza decided to turn a routine drive into a nine-month nightmare.
Here’s the part the Glen Ridge Municipal Court doesn’t want you to know:
The stop, the tickets, the tow, and the bench warrant that still hangs over Naomi’s head never happened in Glen Ridge at all.
Body-camera video is crystal clear: Sgt. Mazza radioed headquarters and announced he was making the stop at Woodland Avenue and Willowdale Avenue — in MONTCLAIR, not Glen Ridge.
Yet the tickets he wrote claim “Glen Ridge.” The tow happened in Montclair. The disabled woman was left to walking home in freezing weather, in Montclair.
This is the traffic citation that Municipal Court Judge Mark Clemente, Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster, and Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo received, read, filed, and then weaponized against a disabled Black woman named Naomi Johnson.
Look at it. Really look at it.
There is no court date typed on this summons. Sgt. Anthony Mazza wrote the location as “Woodland/Douglas, Glen Ridge Township.”
His own body-camera audio tells the truth he tried to bury: as he radios in the stop at Woodland & Willowdale — MONTCLAIR, New Jersey.
MONTCLAIR.
That single radio transmission obliterates every shred of jurisdiction Glen Ridge ever pretended to have.
- Territorial jurisdiction? Gone. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-16 limits municipal courts to offenses “within the territory of that municipality.” Montclair is a separate sovereign town.
- Subject-matter jurisdiction? Gone. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-17.
- Personal jurisdiction? Never established — Naomi challenged it repeatedly and was met with silence and a warrant.
Yet Denise C. Iandolo, the Violations Clerk/Court Administrator, ignored Naomi documents to dismissed the tickets citation fee. Instead he entered it into the system, and began demanding two $55 payments — $110 total when they do not have any lawful jurisdiction to requested for payment.
When Naomi dared file Notices of Special Appearance, Motions to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction, and Demands to Show Cause, what did the trio do?
Judge Mark Clemente issued an unconstitutional bench warrant. Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster stayed silent — abdicating her duty to prove jurisdiction. Denise C. Iandolo kept the unlawful machine running.
Body-camera video is clear. Sgt. Mazza radioed headquarters and announced he was making the stop at Woodland Avenue and Willowdale Avenue — in Montclair, not Glen Ridge.
Yet the summonses he issued list the location as “Woodland/Douglas, Glen Ridge Township.” The vehicle was towed from Montclair, and Naomi — a disabled woman — was left to walk home in freezing weather in Montclair.
There was no court date typed on the summonses.
New Jersey law on jurisdiction is unambiguous:
- N.J.S.A. 2B:12-16 limits municipal court territorial jurisdiction to offenses committed “within the territory of that municipality.”
- N.J.S.A. 2B:12-17 governs subject-matter jurisdiction.
- N.J.S.A. 40A:14-156 restricts municipal police enforcement authority to their own borders absent hot pursuit or a mutual-aid agreement — neither of which has ever been produced.
Naomi repeatedly challenged jurisdiction through Notices of Special Appearance, Motions to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction, and Demands to Show Cause. Every filing was ignored or deemed “not filed.”
She requested ADA accommodations (remote appearance due to severe mobility issues and tremors). Judge Mark Clemente’s response was to suggest she “use the public library.” When she explained she is physically unable to do so, communication ceased and the warrant remained.
The summonses contain a handwritten “(B)” next to her name — a race designation that has no field on the official New Jersey Uniform Summons form and is prohibited by AOC Directive 02-07 and N.J.S.A. 39:5-3.
She found out because an Internal Affairs lieutenant casually emailed her, months after Judge Mark Clemente secretly issued an administrative “warrant” on May 14, 2025. Service of the bench warrant? Regular mail only — despite Court Rule 7:2-3 and R. 4:4-4 requiring personal service or certified mail with return receipt for bench warrants. Naomi first learned of the warrant months later through an email from Lt. Timothy Faranda.
Not by certified mail.
Not by sheriff service.
Not by any lawful process.
- No Notice of the Warrant Was Ever Sent New Jersey Court Rule 7:2-3 and the Fourteenth Amendment require actual notice and opportunity to be heard before a court can issue a bench warrant for failure to appear. Glen Ridge sent nothing.
- No Notice That Appearance Was Ever Required The two $55 tickets were payable, not court-mandatory. Judge Clemente himself later admitted in writing: “the tickets do not necessarily require an appearance.” So they issued a warrant for failing to do something she was never required to do.
- Naomi Had Already Filed Motions
Before the secret warrant was issued, Naomi had already served the court with:
- Motion to Show Cause
- Notice to Vacate the Void Tickets
- Challenge to Jurisdiction (the stop was in Montclair, not Glen Ridge) The court ignored every filing, then punished her for not showing up to a hearing she was never lawfully summoned to.
This is not sloppy paperwork.
This is deliberate ambush justice designed to terrorize people into paying unlawful fines.
They knew the tickets were void (wrong town, no jurisdiction). They knew appearance wasn’t required. They knew proper notice was never given. They issued the warrant anyway.
And when Naomi asked for proof of jurisdiction?
Silence.
An unconstitutional tickets into a lifetime of fear for a grieving mother whose only child was killed and whose rights mean nothing to Glen Ridge.
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“Read the Judge’s Own Words: This Email Is a Confession of Judicial Extortion” An Open Indictment of Municipal Judge Mark Clemente’s July 25, 2025 Email November 25, 2025. Here it is, straight from Judge Mark Clemente’s keyboard.
Read it with your own eyes. Then ask yourself how any of this is legal.
The email (cc’d to Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster, Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo, and Lt. Timothy Faranda) is dated July 25, 2025.
On May 14, 2025, Municipal Judge Mark Clemente issued a bench warrant with $500 cash bail for “failure to appear” on two payable $55 tickets. In his July 25, 2025 email, Judge Clemente acknowledged that the tickets “do not necessarily require an appearance” and stated that if Naomi paid the tickets online, the warrant would be recalled.
As of November 25, 2025, the warrant remains active in the New Jersey Judiciary’s Municipal Court Case Search portal and PROMIS/Gavel system.
Glen Ridge Municipal Court is a quasi-judicial administrative tribunal created under N.J.S.A. 2B:12-1 et seq. with strictly limited statutory power and no equitable jurisdiction. New Jersey courts have repeatedly held that municipal courts cannot convert civil motor-vehicle infractions into criminal contempt proceedings without a separate indictable offense (State v. Gonzalez, 114 N.J. 592 (1989); State v. Cloutier, 262 N.J. Super. 260 (App. Div. 1993)). Because the underlying stop occurred outside Glen Ridge, the court lacked territorial jurisdiction from the beginning. A court without jurisdiction cannot lawfully punish a failure to appear that alone makes the warrant void and unconstitutional (Rule 7:7-2), (State v. Dangerfield, 201 N.J. 151 (2010); State v. Inglis, 235 N.J. 449 (2018)). This continuing situation implicates potential violations of Naomi’s rights under the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983. Naomi Johnson has filed complaints with state and federal oversight agencies and is pursuing all available remedies.
He tells a severely disabled Black woman the only ADA accommodation he will provide is to “come through the back door of the public library” to access the courtroom. That is not accommodation. That is public humiliation for someone whose medical records (Social Security Disability determination, neurology reports, nurse practitioner notes documenting PTSD, chronic pain, and mobility impairment) were already in his hands. Judge Mark stated in his letter “If you pay the tickets online… the warrant will be recalled and you will not need to appear.” (Let that sink in).
Pay money to a court that has no jurisdiction (the stop occurred in Montclair, not Glen Ridge), and we’ll make the illegal warrant disappear. This action can be allegedly seen as coercion under color of law, extortion by public official (N.J.S.A. 2C:27-5), and a blatant violation of the First Amendment petition clause and the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause.
- Clemente acknowledges receiving Naomi’s:
- Affidavit of Fact
- Motion to Quash Warrant
- Motion to Vacate Void Judgment
- Proof of Disability
- Challenge to Jurisdiction …and instead of ruling on any of them, he says, “Come to court and we’ll talk.” That is not how the law works. A judge cannot force a party into a courtroom he has no jurisdiction over just to “talk.” Jurisdiction is not optional. It is threshold. The New Jersey Supreme Court has been crystal clear: no jurisdiction = no power to compel appearance (State v. Inglis, 235 N.J. 449 (2018)).
- The warrant itself is worded like Naomi is a violent felon: $500 cash bail, full criminal booking threatened — over two $55 Title 39 traffic tickets. Title 39 violations are civil, not criminal. Treating them as crimes is a fraud upon the court and a direct violation of State v. Gonzalez, 114 N.J. 592 (1989).
This grieving mother — whose only child was killed by an NJ Transit/Coach USA bus driver in a case Essex County prosecutors helped bury — is being hunted like a fugitive because she dared to ask a simple question:
That is not justice.
To Judge Mark Clemente:
You took an oath under Canon 1 and Canon 2 of the Code of Judicial Conduct to uphold the Constitution and decide cases impartially. You have violated both — spectacularly and on the record.
You do not get to manufacture jurisdiction by threatening a disabled Black woman with jail unless she pays tribute.
The warrant is void. The tickets are void. Your conduct is criminal.
We are done asking.
#ClementeEmailExposed #ExtortionInRobes #VoidWarrant #NoJurisdictionNoPower #GlenRidgeMustBeHeldAccountable
Naomi Johnson is coming — with federal complaints, §1983 litigation, Brady demands, and every oversight agency in the state. And when the U.S. Attorney finally opens the file labeled “Glen Ridge Municipal Court — Systemic Civil Rights Violations,” this ticket and this $500 warrant will be Exhibits A and B.
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“Driving While Black in the Wrong Zip Code: Glen Ridge’s 8-Month Illegal Warrant on Minister Naomi Johnson”
So how exactly did Glen Ridge Municipal Court Judge Mark Clemente, Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster, and Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo claim the power to issue a bench warrant against her?
They didn’t. They just did it anyway.
No Territorial Jurisdiction Glen Ridge officers have zero authority to write enforceable traffic tickets in Montclair without a valid mutual-aid agreement or hot-pursuit situation. Neither existed. No agreement has ever been produced — because Naomi demanded it in multiple filings and the court went silent.
No Subject-Matter Jurisdiction New Jersey municipal courts only have jurisdiction over offenses committed within the municipality. The alleged infractions occurred entirely in Montclair. Game over.
No Personal Jurisdiction Naomi challenged jurisdiction in writing more than a dozen times — motions to dismiss, notices of special appearance, demands for proof of jurisdiction. Every single one was ignored or “deemed not filed.” That is not due process; that is tyranny in black robes.
Translation:
Naomi feel that Bourough Glern Ridge court indirectly saying for her to pay them money under threat of arrest, or they we’ll keep hunting her— even though they have no lawful power over her.
- Disability Discrimination in Open View Naomi repeatedly requested ADA accommodations (remote appearance — she can barely walk some days). Clemente’s suggestion? “Use the public library computer.” When she explained that triggers tremors and PTSD, the court ghosted her and denied OPRA requests for their own ADA policy manual.
- Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster — Missing in Action Brewster has never once attempted to prove jurisdiction. She has ignored every motion, every constitutional challenge, every demand to produce the mutual-aid agreement. Her silence is complicity.
- Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo — The Gatekeeper of Injustice Iandolo processes warrants, schedules hearings, and controls the docket. He is the one who is in charge of Naomi’s filings, who allowed a warrant to issue on tickets that require no appearance, who helped maintain the fiction that Glen Ridge had any authority here at all.
This is not a “traffic case.” This is a coordinated effort by a judge, a prosecutor, and a court clerk to criminalize a disabled Black woman who had the nerve to know her rights.
As of today, November 23, 2025, Naomi Johnson — a minister, a journalist, a disabled American citizen — still has an active bench warrant hovering over her head for the crime of driving while Black, disabled, and constitutionally literate in the wrong zip code.
The question for Glen Ridge isn’t whether they’ll fix this. The question is how long they think they can keep getting away with it before the federal courthouse in Newark opens a very different kind of case.
We’re watching.
And so should you.
Glen Ridge Municipal Court is not a constitutional court of record. It is a quasi-judicial administrative tribunal created under N.J.S.A. 2B:12-1 et seq. It has strictly limited statutory power and zero equitable jurisdiction.
That means:
- The “bench warrant” Judge Mark Clemente issued on May 14, 2025 is not a judicial warrant signed by an Article III or Article VI judge. It is an administrative contempt order issued by a municipal traffic court that has no authority to issue criminal arrest warrants for non-criminal Title 39 violations.
- New Jersey courts have repeatedly held that municipal courts cannot convert civil motor-vehicle infractions into criminal contempt proceedings without a separate indictable offense (State v. Gonzalez, 114 N.J. 592 (1989); State v. Cloutier, 262 N.J. Super. 260 (App. Div. 1993)).
- Because the underlying tickets are void for lack of territorial jurisdiction (stop occurred in Montclair, not Glen Ridge), the municipal court had no lawful power to summon Naomi in the first place. A court without jurisdiction cannot punish “failure to appear” — doing so is an ultra vires act and a nullity from the beginning.
- The so-called “warrant” carries a $500 cash bail and threatens full criminal booking and detention. That is false imprisonment under color of law when applied to civil, non-indictable Title 39 tickets.
- Administrative municipal warrants are not entered into NCIC as criminal warrants and cannot lawfully authorize arrest outside the issuing municipality unless a superior court judge re-issues it. Glen Ridge knows this — yet they still terrorize citizens with the threat.
Bottom line: What Clemente issued is not a real warrant. It is a scare tactic printed on municipal letterhead, designed to coerce payment from people who don’t know their rights.
It has zero constitutional force. It is void on its face. And every cop, clerk, prosecutor, and judge who treats it as legitimate is participating in a fraudulent deprivation of liberty under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and N.J.S.A. 2C:30-2 (official misconduct).
The Unlawful Warrant: Still Active, Still a Lie – Glen Ridge's 8-Month War on Naomi Johnson
November 25, 2025 – Eight months. That's how long the Borough of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, has been illegally hunting Naomi Johnson with an active bench warrant issued on May 14, 2025. As of today – verified through public records checks on the New Jersey Judiciary's Municipal Court Case Search portal and direct inquiries to Essex County Sheriff's Office – this so-called "warrant" remains live in the system, flagged against her name for "Failure to Appear" on two $55 traffic tickets that were never lawfully hers to pay.
This isn't justice. It's a deliberate, ongoing deprivation of liberty under color of law – a violation of Naomi's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, compounded by ADA discrimination and racial profiling. And it's all built on a foundation of fraud: a forged ticket from Sgt. Anthony Mazza, processed by a quasi-judicial kangaroo court with zero jurisdiction.
The Warrant: Not Judicial, Not Legitimate – An Administrative Bluff
Let's be brutally clear: Glen Ridge Municipal Court is not a full constitutional court. It's a quasi-judicial administrative tribunal under N.J.S.A. 2B:12-1 et seq., with powers strictly limited to minor, non-indictable offenses within its municipal borders. It cannot issue true judicial arrest warrants for civil Title 39 infractions like these – only administrative bench warrants for "contempt" of a non-existent court order. These are not entered into NCIC as criminal warrants and lack the force to authorize statewide or cross-jurisdictional arrests without escalation to Superior Court.
This "warrant" – carrying a $500 cash bail and threats of full booking – is void ab initio because:
- No Territorial Jurisdiction: Sgt. Mazza's own body-cam audio (timestamp 26:19) proves the stop occurred in Montclair, not Glen Ridge. Municipal courts have no power over out-of-town offenses (N.J.S.A. 2B:12-16).
- No Subject-Matter Jurisdiction: Title 39 violations are civil, not criminal. Treating them as warrant-worthy crimes is a fraud upon the court (State v. Gonzalez, 114 N.J. 592 (1989)).
- No Personal Jurisdiction or Due Process: No notice of hearing was sent (required by Rule 7:2-3). Naomi filed a Motion to Show Cause and Notice to Vacate before the warrant issued – ignored. Service? Regular mail – unconstitutional (Greene v. Lindsey, 456 U.S. 444 (1982)). She learned of it via Lt. Timothy Faranda's email, not lawful process.
- No Required Appearance: Judge Clemente admitted in his July 25 email: "The tickets do not necessarily require an appearance." Issuing a warrant for a non-mandatory act is ultra vires – an illegal overreach (State v. Dangerfield, 201 N.J. 151 (2010)).
Bench warrants in NJ have no expiration for civil matters like this, lingering indefinitely until quashed – which is why it's still active today, terrorizing Naomi with arrest fears during job hunts, medical visits, and daily life. It's a sword of Damocles, designed to coerce payment from those who can't afford lawyers or time off.
The Human Cost: A Grieving Mother's Nightmare
Naomi Johnson isn't a "defendant" – she's a survivor. Ordained minister. Host of the Noneillah Talk Show. A Black woman with chronic pain, nerve damage, anxiety, depression, and PTSD – documented by Social Security Disability, neurology reports, and nurse practitioner notes. Her only child was murdered by an NJ Transit/Coach USA bus driver; Essex County prosecutors buried the case.
For what? A fabricated stop in the wrong town. Groceries spoiled in impound. $575 in predatory tow fees. Walked home in freezing cold, missing therapy, tremors flaring. And now? An active warrant that brands her a criminal for a civil ticket she never owed.
Glen Ridge's machine – from Mazza's racial "(B)" notation (illegal under AOC Directive #02-07) to Clemente's coercive email ("Pay online and the warrant goes away") – reeks of systemic bias. They ignored her ADA pleas (library access? For someone who can't walk without pain?). Ignored her motions. Treated Title 39 as a felony to extract cash from a disabled Black widow.
This is Monell liability in action: a municipal policy of jurisdictional overreach, racial profiling, and disability discrimination (42 U.S.C. § 1983; NJLAD N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq.).
It's Still Active – And That's the Scandal
As of November 25, 2025, Naomi's name lights up on the NJ Municipal Court Case Search as "warrant active." No resolution despite her certified notices, OPRA demands, and reports to NJ AG Civil Rights (who cited "staff shortages" – unacceptable). Essex County Sheriff's Warrants Unit confirms it's enforceable locally, but quashable via motion.
Call to Action: End This Now
- Quash It: File a Motion to Recall/Quash under Rule 7:4-4 at Glen Ridge Municipal Court (3 Herman St., Glen Ridge, NJ 07028; 973-748-5400). Demand proof of jurisdiction – they can't provide it.
- Check Your Own Status: Use NJMCDirect or PROMIS/Gavel for traffic/municipal warrants.
- Amplify & Report: Share Naomi's story. Contact US DOJ Civil Rights Division, ACLU-NJ, and Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II. This demands federal intervention.
Naomi's rights aren't optional. Her life isn't collateral for your revenue racket. Share it. Post it. Send it to every news outlet, every civil-rights group, and every federal oversight agency in the country. Because if they can do this to Naomi Johnson, they can do it to anyone. We're watching. The nation soon will be.
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#SecretWarrant #NoNoticeNoDueProcess #GlenRidgeKangarooCourt #VoidFromTheJump
#NotARealWarrant #AdministrativeExtortion #QuasiJudicialFraud #GlenRidgeExposed
#NoneillahTalkShow
#GlenRidgeInjustice #
EndQualifiedImmunity
#ADAviolations
#NoJurisdictionNoWarrant
#ForgedTicket #VoidAbInitio #NoJurisdictionNoWarrant #ADAViolationOnItsFace
Mark Clemente
Judge of Municipal Court
Denise C. Iandolo
Municipal Court Administrator
Violations Clerk
Eliabeth Brewster, Esq.
Borough Prosecutor
Public Records: Naomi Johnson
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Glen Ridge Police Department Evidence of Unlawful Traffic Stop and Towing – Montclair, New Jersey
December 2, 2025
I am making the following **redacted public records** available for transparency and to document my ongoing efforts to obtain a proper internal affairs investigation.
**Summary of Events**
Monday, February 24, 2025
On Feb, Glen Ridge Police Sergeant Anthony Mazza conducted a traffic stop and ordered my vehicle towed **entirely within the Town of Montclair**, where Glen Ridge officers have no jurisdiction (N.J.S.A. 40A:14-152). The citations issued list the location as Glen Ridge. My vehicle contained perishable food and medication and I am disabled (handicap placard displayed). I was left stranded.
**Redacted Public Records (click to view or download)** 1. Traffic Citation – lists location as Glen Ridge 2. Towing Receipt – clearly states vehicle removed from Montclair 3. Body-Worn Camera Clips (key segments only) - Sgt. Mazza radioing “pulling over in Montclair” - Sgt. Mazza stating he has “probable cause” and calling the stop a “crime” - Sgt. Mazza ordering tow while still in Montclair 4. Glen Ridge Internal Affairs Summary by Lt. Faranda 5. Email confirming active bench warrant issued on void citations
**Current Status** - December 2, 2025: Formal Notice with all new evidence sent to Essex County Prosecutor’s Professional Standards Bureau demanding reopening of investigation - Civil rights lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
These documents are shared in redacted form consistent with New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA) and the common-law right of access. No private medical details or unredacted personal identifiers are included.
Questions may be directed to naomi.johnson.public@gmail.com
Thank you for helping ensure accountability and transparency.
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