Why was Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi arrested in 2010? Jersey Shore star reconnects with the arresting officer

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has reconnected with the cop who famously arrested her in 2010 during a season 3 episode of “Jersey Shore.”

The reality star, 37, commemorated the 15th anniversary of the incident that took place on July 30, 2010, in Seaside Heights, NJ, Page Six reported. At the time, Snooki was heavily inebriated, leaving her with charges of disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and criminal annoyance, People Magazine has reported.

On Monday, she took to TikTok to share a video of herself recreating the original scene with the officer in question, Joe Fastige.

“We’re going to do a little photo shoot in honor of my new merch dropping in honor of me getting arrested all those years ago,” she said in her video. “I’m also seeing again the cop that arrested me. I haven’t seen him since that fateful day . . . So it’s gonna be a little reunion at the Snooki Shop,” Polizzi added.

The charges against Polizzi were dropped two months later. She was left with a fine of $500 and two days of community service.

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Speaking with People Magazine about the infamous moment that eventually spawned hundreds of memes for her "Where is the beach?" line, Polizzi recalled spending too much time at a local bar after a 10:00 a.m. shift:

"I literally hardly got any sleep, and obviously, we were drinking a lot. So when I woke up, I was dead, like dying. I walked in with my club dress still on and a blanket. I was dying. I needed sleep," she recalled. "I was like, 'Okay, if I need to finish this shift and do this, I'm just going to run away and keep the party going. I'm going to go get a mimosa, I'm going to go enjoy myself, and then I'll go back to work,' but then obviously I got arrested."

Ahead of the arrest, Snooki recalled having a good time and wanting to get to the beach. However, her notorious dialogue didn't come out as she intended to:

"I meant, 'How do you get on the beach?' Because there's only so many ramps on the boardwalk to get on the beach," she explained. "So I was so drunk that I wasn't asking the right question. That's why I kept running, because I couldn't find a ramp. And then when I finally got onto the beach, that's when the girls came and they were like, 'You cannot swim. You need to go home.' "

In her TikTok video, Snooki asked her former arresting officer what was “going through his mind” when he noticed her being “disgusting” on the beach.

“Not disgusting. You just had a little bit of fun, a little too much fun, that’s OK,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t know, I was 21 years old at the time. … Baby cop. I think I was a year out of the academy, and I was getting paid a little bit of overtime to kind of watch you guys. … And I was there, and I was like, ‘Oh, man, this is a lot. This is a lot of people too.’”

He then recalled one of the producers informing him that the reality television star was just putting up an act:

“I had to do what I had to do, but it’s OK. Everyone makes mistakes, everybody gets a little bit too drunk and doesn’t know where the beach is even though the beach is right under your feet,” he joked.

Since then, Snooki told People Magazine she is proud of the woman she has become and credits her past for it:

“I never took myself seriously, thank God, so when people talked about me bad or made fun of me, I’m just like, ‘Whatever, let me live,’” she said. “I feel like, especially back then, everyone had something to say about us. They were judging whatever. It’s not like we were killing people. We were just enjoying ourselves, being young and single at the boardwalk and down the shore. It’s not that serious.”

Snooki is now a mother of three: Lorenzo, Giovanna, and Angelo, whom she shares with her husband, Jionni LaValle. The pair met back in 2012 on the show and tied the knot two years later, The New York Post has reported.

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