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Emails circulating around oneWarren County municipality erroneously say the so-called knockout game is being played there, police said today.

Greenwich Townshippolice Chief Richard Hummer says a dispute between an adult and a group of juveniles Friday night was an isolated incident and that no one was assaulted.

The incident began shortly after 8 p.m. in the Greenwich Chase development, just west of Routes 519 and 22, with the juveniles on a sidewalk acting disorderly and shouting profanities at one another, police said.

The adult resident walked up and questioned one of the juveniles, sparking a dispute and call to police, according to a news release from the department; the juveniles left before police arrived.

Emails brought to the department's attention by the township committee made the incident out to be more than it was, reporting an assault and saying it was part of the knockout game. In the so-called game, an assailant -- primarily younger, and part of a group -- assaults someone at random and without provocation, in an attempt to knock the person unconscious, while someone else records it to share online.

"There was nobody assaulted, no punches thrown," Hummer said. "It was a dispute, it wasn't an assault.

"That did not happen. People are under the impression that it did."

No one has been charged with any crime in the incident, which remains under investigation.

Police ask anyone with information or questions to call the department at 908-454-1010.

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