Philly fugitive snagged in click-it-or-ticket stop

A Philadelphia man wanted for violating parole on a bank robbery conviction was arrested during a click-it-or-ticket seat belt stop at the Shore, police said Wednesday.

The fugitive, Joseph Piston, 36, was a passenger in a car that North Wildwood Police Officer Bryan Skill stopped Tuesday afternoon at 20th and New York Avenues, police said.

Neither Piston, nor the driver, Harry McCook, 44, of Philadelphia was wearing a seat belt, police said.

Besides the parole violation warrant out of Pennsylvania, Piston has outstanding warrants from North Wildwood, Somers Point, Wildwood Crest and Union Township, N.J., police said.

Piston was being held at the Cape May County Correctional Center to await extradition, police said. He was also given a summons for failure to wear a seat belt as was McCook.