Officials Find 30,000 Springsteen Tickets in Back Pocket of North Arlington Scalper

State Police arrested North Arlington resident Paul Napalitano after finding him with almost all of the supposedly unavailable Bruce Springsteen concert tickets that went on sale earlier this week.

On Tuesday, undercover agents approached a man later identified as Napalitano standing outside the Izod Center in a puffy coat asking passers-by, “Need tickets? Need tickets?” When one of the investigators asked Napalitano how many he had, the scalper replied, “All of them.”

“It was actually pretty impressive,” Det. Dan Carney said. “He fanned out 30,000 tickets in one hand like a magician with a deck of cards. Everything was organized by section and row number.”

“The guy even had backstage passes, although he wanted more than just cash for those,” the detective continued. “I don’t want to get into details, but let me just note for the record, ‘I’m goin to see Springsteen!’”

It was unclear how the 42-year-old unemployed man who lives with his mother in a basement apartment on Schuyler Avenue wound up with tickets for every seat to the two shows in May that Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the Meadowlands. Authorities said Napalitano told them he got most of the tickets from “a friend” who didn’t need them and found the others in a brown paper bag on the sidewalk.

But inside Napalitano’s coat, police found a business card from Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty. On the back of the card was a note, “Call me when you sell all of these. I may have some more.”

Ticketmaster spokesman Albert Lopez declined to comment on the case, other than to say, “Those who were able to solve the Goldbach conjecture math problem were given an opportunity to then fight a black bear for the chance to log onto our website with a dial-up connection and buy our wide selection of tickets in section 240, row Z, seats 29 and 30.”

In related news, Ticketmaster has agreed with regulators to now include actual tickets in the prices it charges for tickets.