Maybe you remember Mark Newton.

He was featured in my column in May as the incredibly active pro se litigant who often has several lawsuits, eviction battles or other legal actions going on at the same time.

For many years now, landlords have accused him of damaging apartments once he has moved in, then withholding rent while accusing them of running substandard rentals.

Landlords also say it can take years and several thousand dollars to get him out of the place because he knows — as well as any professional lawyer — how to fight a case in court, thus extending the proceedings ad infinitum.

In the process, Newton and his family sometimes file lawsuits and complaints against neighbors, landlords and others who complain about them.

Mark Newton seems to live for a good squabble. So when his next-door neighbors, Andy and Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry, began tangling with him, they, like most people, said they had no idea what they were getting into.

The Newtons and the Shabazz-Henrys have been going at it continually for a few years now, with each alleging that the other has been making threats, causing disruptions and concocting false charges. The Shabazz-Henrys have filed terroristic threat charges against Newton. His wife, Andrea, recently filed separate harassment complaints against the Shabazz-Henrys. In the complaints, Andrea Newton said that Andy Shabazz-Henry called her a derogatory name and that his wife walked up to her with relatives and said: "Why do you keep making reports against me?"

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Newton’s son, Qadir, filed a complaint earlier this year against Andy and Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry, saying they broke into the Newtons’ house on St. Paul Avenue in Newark in June 2010. A warrant was issued, and the couple were arrested on burglary charges even though they denied the allegations. They posted bail and those charges were dismissed May 25.

Case closed.

Not really.

It seems Newark police never deleted the warrant from the system as they were supposed to have done. The blunder caused Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry to get arrested again, this time by South Brunswick police when she was driving home with her three children from the Sesame Place theme park in Pennsylvania.

"I got arrested twice for doing nothing, because of Mark," Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry said. "Mark has made this fight between us and the police department and he’s not in the equation."

She was about 40 minutes from home when South Brunswick police stopped her on Route 1 at about 10:30 p.m. May 29. Her kids, wearing Sesame Street pajamas, were asleep in the back seat. She had on an Elmo hat, Big Bird T-shirt and lanyards around her neck.

Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry and the local police pretty much agree on the details. She and the officer exchanged pleasantries. He asked about her job, where she was headed. Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry, a 16-year registered nurse, pulled out her credentials. She said she was tired, having worked back-to-back 12-hour shifts at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood before the family outing.

As fatigue kicked in, Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry said, she got lost and swerved while fiddling with the GPS system. Officers on patrol for drunken drivers thought she may have been impaired and stopped her. The officer ran her name through the National Crime Information Center database, and the burglary warrant popped up.

"I’m like, ‘Okay, I can explain this,’ " Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry said.

There was one problem, though. She did not have the paperwork to prove the warrant was cleared. Sgt. Jim Ryan, a South Brunswick police spokesman, said his officers did not want to arrest Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry, because she didn’t fit the part of a burglary suspect.

He said she had phone numbers of Newark detectives familiar with her situation, plus she was dressed in Sesame Street clothing. Officers let her call Newark’s Fourth Precinct where, she says, some officers know her family and the Newtons from answering more than 64 calls of complaints between the two families since May 2010. Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry said the cops wouldn’t help, because her name was still in the system as having a burglary warrant for her arrest.

South Brunswick police had no choice but to take her in. At headquarters, she called Newark again while her children drank juice and ate snacks in the lobby.

"I must have called them (Newark) five or six times that night," she said. "I’m begging them to please help me and my family."

She was finally released around 2:30 a.m. after her husband left work to get proof from home that they paid the bail. Ryan, the South Brunswick spokesman, said Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry said she didn’t get upset with his officers, understanding they had a job to do. Hey, she says, she is also a fan of Newark police, finding time in July to hand out fliers so residents would know about a new precinct in the city’s Vailsburg section.

This screw-up didn’t sit well with Police Director Samuel DeMaio after Kiewanda Shabazz-Henry’s internal affairs complaint was investigated. In an Aug. 19 letter to her, he said the officers failed to perform their duties and were in violation of department rules and regulations. He identified the officers as Timothy Danzey, Detective Gerard Piacenza, Lt. Aurelio Silva and Sgt. Luis Mendez.

"Please be assured that this department does not tolerate inefficiency or unprofessionalism by any personnel," he said. "Please accept my profound apology for the inconvenience encountered by you and your family."

But the battle between the Newtons and the Shabazz-Henrys goes on, and even took a new turn recently. Mark Newton was arrested and jailed last month on aggravated assault charges that Andy Shabazz-Henry filed against him.

The allegation, according to a police report, is that Newton deliberately drove his Ford Explorer into Andy Shabazz-Henry, injuring his arm during an encounter July 31 on their block. Over the summer, Andy Shabazz-Henry said the Newtons have become increasingly annoying to his family. He said that they continue to file harassment complaints against them and that Newton and his sons, Qadir and Qawiyyu, videotape his family when they leave home and return.

Newton declined to be interviewed to give his side of the story. His bail was $100,000, but it was reduced to $12,500. He was transferred from the Essex County Jail to Delaney Hall, a residential re-entry center in Newark and eventually released after he posted bail. No trial date has been set.

Meanwhile, on another front, Newton and his family still live next door to the Shabazz-Henrys in a house on which they have not paid rent in nearly two years. The owner, Wells Fargo Bank, lost its eviction case against the Newtons in April and has not filed another eviction notice to get them out. And Newton seems to be in no hurry to move.