Hannan Adely

Staff Writer, @AdelyReporter

A bar fight between two women turned uglier Friday night when one bit and took a chunk off the other’s earlobe.

Police were called to Miller’s Ale House at 270 Route 4 East in Paramus at 11:10 p.m. and found the two women.

“A violent dispute occurred between the two, during which the suspect bit the victim’s left earlobe, severing a portion of it,” Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.

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The injured woman was an employee of the suspect's, police said. Police did not say where they worked or what kind of work they did or release their identities.

The suspect was “heavily intoxicated” and would not cooperate with police, Ehrenberg said.

The victim declined to file a complaint, and there were no witnesses to the incident when the officers arrived, he added. The matter is under investigation.

The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. The suspect was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center under the Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act, which allows police to seek emergency treatment for seriously intoxicated people.

Not the first fight at this Miller's Ale House

It's not the first time police have been called to Miller's Ale House. Five police departments responded to a fight in the parking lot at 2:40 one Friday morning in August 2014, after an officer on patrol saw dozens of people fighting there.

Two men, one from Englewood and one from Hackensack, were arrested in that incident for disorderly persons charges of tumultuous behavior and resisting arrest.

Miller's Ale House, a national chain that includes 78 bar-and-restaurant locations in 11 states, opened in Paramus in 2012.