Ninja "Warriors" Arrested In N.J.

(CBS/ AP)  Clifton police say they arrested two men dressed liked ninjas and armed with Asian martial arts weapons who said they were sending a warning to drug users.

Calling themselves "Shinobi warriors," the men wore black SWAT-type vests and carried knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks and a bow and arrows.

Twenty-year-old Tadeusz Tertkiewicz and 19-year-old Jesse Trojaniak are charged with weapons possession. Tertkiewicz is also charged with harassment for a letter left for an ex-girlfriend.

After being arrested early Wednesday in a car on Route 46, the men said they were delivering warning letters to drug dealers and drug users urging them to stop their "impure" activities.

Their weapons, Detective Capt. Robert Rowan told The Bergen County Record, were to be a precaution in case they were confronted by the drug dealers.
The officers who arrested the men found the letters in five envelopes decorated with red Chinese designs, The Record reports.

Reports show the two men had already delivered one such letter to Tertkiewicz' 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in Clifton. Police contacted the teen and her mother and alerted them to the situation.

The letters warned drug users and drug dealers that the "Shinobi will stop your cruel and sadistic intentions with justified yet, merciful force."

In the letter, the two men accused drug dealers and users of having "committed sin of passing impurity" to others and that the "wind guides us to those of impure heart and intent."

"Their intentions may have been good, but we tell everyone that they shouldn't take the law into their own hands because it will cause more problems for everyone in the longrun," Rowan said.

Trojaniak's father tells The Associated Press his son is "not a maniac" and was only trying to help a friend.

[basiaaria]

I don't know why I never posted on any of these news stories earlier, but I'm a little confused as to why nobody interviewed me.

To straighten things out, nobody on their list was a drug dealer, that was just a pathetic line to make themselves look like they had good intentions and weren't just morons. Although they didn't fall far from that impression.

[patriot12436]

It says they left a threatening note with an ex girl friend so i don''t think these guys were playing with a full deck.

[patriot12436]

deacon
Anyone in martial arts that looks for fights is not a true martial artist. With the training comes discipline and respect, fr yourself, other people and the art.

[usclimey]

Socialism FAILS every time!

Posted by zerrato

I''d ask a Russian about that. Moscow was safe under the communists - now it''s a shooting gallery.

[zerrato]

Polish or Czech Ninja? Somebody was taking Ben Stiller and Robert Downey''''s new movie waaaaaay too seriously (impersonating other races) rotflmao

Posted by toldyouso12 at 11:42 PM : Aug 21, 2008

Robert Downey Jr wasn''t impersonating anything...he''s just kept his true race in the closet all this time.

[zerrato]

Let''s face it...this is New Jersey. Drug pushers and hoodlums are the FIRST CLASS citizens, everyone else better just behave themselves.

[keithle1]

Why don''t black people do this kind of thing? Take back their neighborhoods from the drug dealers, thugs & gangs.

[slim1h2o]

So why does the 19 year old, have a 16 year old ex-girl friend?

Hmm, me thinks something was going on that shouldn''t be. With these two, meaning the girl, and man (?) in this case.

[deacon20081]

Had two aquaintenaces years ago who earned their minor degree''s in karate. Thought they were a couple of bad azzz''s. Got in a fight with two street fighters...........It was not pretty, both karate champs ended up in a ditch with broken faces and legs. It was like HAI Karate! verse High with a Crow Bar...

[ejpearcy]

Well, crime fighting on a personal level has long been glorified. It seems like an appropriate means when the threat is great and when it IS NOT A PERSONAL CHOICE. Drug use IS a personal choice which should not be anyone else''s business in a free society.

Neither police nor vigilantes have any business enforcing their will upon others no matter how badly they wish things were different.