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An off-duty police officer in New Jersey was arrested after she allegedly broke into a house, attacked two individuals and threatened that she’d set the house on fire, The New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Just before 11:30 pm on Friday, Rebecca A. Sayegh, a Toms River Police Officer, allegedly used her baton to smash the front door of her ex-boyfriend’s Berkeley home on Friday, confronting him and a woman who was present at the time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Court documents said she began to argue with her ex-boyfriend and the woman. Ms Sayegh reportedly started pushing and hitting the two when the verbal altercation turned into physical violence.<\/p>\n Ms Sayegh “broke free” and destroyed items and pictures on the wall when the two victims attempted to control her in the living room, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n She also allegedly damaged the hood of one of the victims’ vehicles parked in the driveway of the Evernham Avenue residence before the alleged home invasion, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n She allegedly threatened to set the house on fire when she was strolling down the driveway, according to court documents cited by multiple publications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Initially, it was unclear whether or how Ms Sayegh knew the other people. But Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer claimed that police had been called to a “domestic disturbance.”<\/p>\n The off-duty cop was charged with two counts of assault, terroristic threats, two counts of criminal mischief, assault, burglary, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n