This happened 13 years ago. I was their landlord.

Their uncle was the former chief of police.

The arresting officer was their cousin, (small town)

They harassed me endlessly.

One of them broke my nose in "multiple" places after picking me up from a lawn chair and throwing me around a bit. I filed charges but she never was indicted.

The weapon was a bottler of pepper spray for animals that contained .35% capsasin.. The arresting officer told the judge that I was carrying 35% pepper spray which was above the legal limit for capsasin. It was because of this that the charges were upped to aggravated instead of simple assault, (I believe).

All three sued me, my mother, (the owner of the apartments) and the apartment company.

I only paid $350 for my attorney because I did not think that it would go beyond municipal court.

Several years after; the woman's, (the one who broke my nose) attorney told my new stepfather who was a client also that she made a living out of suing people. I believe to this day that they purposely aggravated and scared me into spraying them with the pepper spray so they could collect on another "business insurance company"' money. I spent many nights staying at a friend's house because I was afraid to walk by their apartment on the way to my own in the night.

I could not handle going through a jury trial. I was so mentally sick I just wanted it to go away so I took the plea deal, (the dropped the 2 weapon, (pepper spray) and I plead to 3 counts of aggravated assault.

I moved to Florida right after if happened although I had to go back to NJ 3 times to face the judge. I was a mental mess and could not stop crying.

For a long time I would be afraid if I saw a police car even if it was on TV. I couldn't even watch Judge Judy. I think I had post traumatic stress disorder.

To this day I am afraid of the police.

That is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.