Utilities Report Harassment, Threats In Outages

Gov. Chris Christie says utility workers have been harassed by people still without power as a result of Saturday's snowstorm, and a utility reports the arrest of one person for making an alleged threat.

Christie says the workers are "just trying to do their job" and should be left alone.

PSE&G spokeswoman Karen Johnson says a juvenile was arrested after an alleged threat on Twitter against the company. She declined to provide further details.

Johnson says repairmen have also been "verbally harassed." She says the company will ask police, when appropriate, to investigate any threats.

Christie says at three arrests have been made but had no details. Jersey Central Power & Light says it knows of no arrests.

About 70,000 customers of PSE&G and Jersey Central remained without power Thursday afternoon.