A 70-year-old Toms River man was arrested twice in less than three hours Saturday after violating the state’s emergency orders during the coronavirus pandemic by entering separate Wawa stores without a mask and threatening to hit people with a pipe, authorities said.

Stephen Breza became belligerent when he walked into a Wawa on the 100 block of Route 37 east in Toms River at around 11 a.m. and was told he needed to have his face covered, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General said Monday.

Breza then started screaming and cursing at employees before threatening to hit another customer with a pipe, according to Toms River police. He screamed at the responding officers and resisted arrest prior to being taken into custody, officials said.

After being booked and released, Breza went to a Wawa on the 1600 block of Route 37 east at about 1:30 p.m. and again entered without a mask, officials said. He then punched a customer in the face and went to his car to get a pipe, which he began waving around, the Attorney General’s office said.

Breza was charged with two counts apiece of violating emergency orders, disorderly conduct and failure to submit to fingerprinting. He was also charged with resisting arrests, making terroristic threats during an emergency and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Breza remains held at the Ocean County jail as of Tuesday morning.

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