Police who busted a Fort Lee, N.J., house party over the weekend forgot a van full of suspects — some of them teens — for more than 12 hours, leaving them locked up and parked outside in the freezing cold.
Officials only realized what had happened after a passerby heard screams and banging from the police van, NBC New York has learned.
Police had raided the house party at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday because of noise complaints from neighbors, according to Fort Lee borough attorney Lee Cohen.
Temps on Saturday morning were in the 20s and 30s.
Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said an internal investigation has been launched within the Fort Lee police department.
Cohen declined to comment on the people left outside, other than to say the case is under "active investigation."