By 5:35 P.M., the police had reported issuing 316 criminal summons for charges including public consumption of alcohol.

Mr. Silva said the city now rarely gives criminal summonses.

Finally, on Feb. 21, a criminal summons was issued - for failure to comply with the previous orders - and work appeared to stop.

The number of parking violations rose to 398 from 196, and criminal summonses nearly doubled.

When the town issued a criminal summons for continuing to fly the Texas flag, he decided to resist.

Sea Gate's private police force issued criminal summonses to those it considered trespassers, and handcuffed a local woman who refused to leave.

And the driver was issued a criminal summons for defacing parks property (the court date is scheduled for March 7).

The man was arrested on a charge of third-degree sexual abuse, he said, and the woman was issued a criminal summons for harassment.

More often than not, the officer issues several criminal summonses for commercial and environmental infractions.

I couldn't issue a criminal summons because they both lived in Manhattan.