Sunday, March 10, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Cherry Hill East teacher accused of exposing himself to a child in a Walmart and a former corrections officer indicted on prisoner sex assault charges.
Butler Councilman Sean McNear was indicted on child endangerment charges Thursday after authorities said he pointed a loaded BB gun at and threatened to shoot his 5-year-old son. A Columbia High School student was arrested Tuesday and will be charged with making a terroristic threat after he allegedly placed an envelope filled with white powder under a dean's office door, Capt. John M. Perna of the Maplewood Police Department said. A local high school Spanish teacher was arrested and charged with lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child last week after he allegedly exposed his genitals to a preteen at a Walmart Auto Care Center, the Camden County Prosecutor announced Monday. A corrections officer and the former assistant head of the…
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Other top stories this month include a man accused of molesting a toddler in his home over the course of a year and the indictment of two North Jersey men in connection with synagogue firebombings.
A Glen Rock hedge fund manager pleaded guilty to charges he defrauded investors — including a disabled, elderly woman — out of more than $4 million while he took lavish vacations, dropped thousands at chic nightclubs and purchased luxury cars. Imprisoned felon Leon Glaspie, who allegedly injured a Deptford police officer during Glaspie's getaway from a bank robbery while he was on furlough from a halfway house, could soon be a free man. A Glen Rock resident and business owner molested a toddler in his home over the course of a year, prosecutors alleged Friday. Anthony Graziano, of Lodi, and Aakash Dalal, of New Brunswick, remain in Bergen County Jail since they were first charged in connection with a series of arson and bias attacks at a …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Other top stories this week include a fatal fire in Flanders and the conclusion of a 12-day murder suspect manhunt.
A West Orange High School English teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student pleaded guilty Tuesday to endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s office. A traffic stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway Thursday led police to the arrest of an alleged gang member with 100 bags of heroin concealed in his anus, authorities said. Two Flanders residents died after an early-morning fire Monday. A man wanted for allegedly beating a gas station attendant to death, then robbing a Delran gas station days later, was captured in Camden Friday morning following a 12-day manhunt. The state has filed suit against a Sparta pair who allegedly created a Hurricane Sandy relief fund …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Alleged armed kidnapping of 71-year-old woman, firefighter admits to arson and a Newark teen allegedly points shotgun at a police officer also among top headlines.
Tyrik S. Haynes, 19, of Middletown, is being held at the county jail on $1 million bail after being charged with first-degree attempted murder and weapons offenses by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. Haynes is accused of stabbing a Keansburg woman 12 times at the Middletown Bed, Bath and Beyond on Thursday. A reputed local mobster known as "Papa Smurf" could face nearly two centuries in prison after he was charged Wednesday with conspiring to grab control of the waste management industry in New York and New Jersey. The mob-targeted federal sweep netted a dozen others. Ramsey resident Carmine Franco, 77, is a known associate of the Genovese Crime Family, federal law enforcement officials said. Two East Rutherford residents are …
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Other top stories include a Summit man charged with sexually assaulting a 'physically and mentally incapacitated' woman and parents plead guilty to giving their teething baby heroin.
Deptford police officer James Stuart, 29, is now facing first-degree murder charges after the man he allegedly shot in the head was pulled off life support. Gloucester County prosecutors said the incident occurred in the officer's home and "was not random," but have released few details of the shooting. Dr. Roberto Rivera had the materials and know-how to create homemade bombs and automatic weapons, the attorney general's office said Wednesday. Authorities say a November raid yielded nitric acid, thermite, a cache of weapons, and how-to manuals in folders marked "Revolution" and "Anarchism." Rivera has been connected to the 'Occupy' movement. Summit's Cyrus Fakroddin, best known as the owner of pizza-devouring goat Cocoa, was charged with …
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Other top stories include man charged with making terroristic threats directed at his child's school and firing of Jets general manager and Basking Ridge resident Mike Tannenbaum.
Authorites have charged a Woodbury man in the slaying of a missing woman whose body was found in a clothing-collection bin early Monday morning. A Metuchen man was charged Wednesday with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact after he allegedly touched two different women “in a sexual manner” at a medical office in Fort Lee, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced. The father of a student at the Atlantic County Special Services School was arrested last week and charged with making terroristic threats directed at the school, Atlantic County Sheriff Frank X. Balles announced Wednesday. The body of missing 26-year-old North Plainfield resident Manuel Antonio Guevara was recovered after the lake was partially drained. Basking …
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Other top stories include a home health aide charged with sexually abusing a teen while employed in her family's residence and a pizzeria waitress accused of aiding the alleged attempted armed robbery of her boss.
Three police officers were shot early Friday morning when a prisoner grabbed the firearm from a police officer's holster and opened fire inside the Gloucester Township police station, authorities said. A server at the Grand Lux Cafe at the Cherry Hill Mall has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant and its parent company, alleging sexual harassment by a trainer who she claims raped her, then shared a nude photo of her with other restaurant employees this summer. A home health aide from Paterson was charged Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old River Edge girl while being employed in the family's residence. Three individuals, including one of the restaurant's waitresses, have been charged in connection with the attempted …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Other top stories include a high school student arrested for allegedly possessing bomb-making materials and an ex-Boy Scout leader charged with sexually assaulting teens.
A Camden man who was released from prison earlier this year is accused of fatally stabbing a woman who testified against him during a 2006 trial in which he was ultimately convicted of aggravated manslaughter. A pair of men from Bergen County were charged in a scheme to sell guns believed to have belonged to the family of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Thursday. A 16-year-old student at Cedar Creek High School was taken into custody Tuesday after Galloway Police and the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office discovered several ingredients that when mixed together could cause an explosion, police said. The investigation and subsequent arrest came after a teacher observed pictures of weapons in …
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Other top stories include former Wyckoff Township Committee candidate a target of vicious vandalism and a Good Samaritan struck by an alleged drunk driver while attending to a car accident.
Early news reports named Hoboken resident Ryan Lanza, a 24-year-old Quinnipiac University graduate, as the shooter who had massacred 20 school children in a sleepy Connecticut town. Subsequent reports named Lanza's younger brother, Adam, as the actual shooter. Gov. Chris Christie requested the removal of Robert Bianchi as prosecutor six months after his term expired. Fredric Knapp was sworn in as acting Morris County prosecutor Friday. More than $10,000 in damages, including spray painted expletives and derogatory terms, were done to former Wyckoff Township Committee Candidate Eileen Avia's home, and two residents' cars Saturday night. A Paramus man was critically injured Friday night when he was struck by a drunk driver after stopping to …
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Other top stories include a NJ marine killed in Afghanistan, five heroic Freehold Borough police officers and a Toms River teacher accused of having sexual contact with a student.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
A Toms River babysitter is being held on $250,000 bail with no 10 percent option after being charged with the murder of a 14-month-old child, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. A Blackwood man was arrested Wednesday along with his son and daughter as conspirators in a drug ring that distributed multi-kilogram quantities of Colombian cocaine, as well as other narcotics, according to authorities. An emergency room worker at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro was arrested on Saturday and charged with forcing a female patient to improperly touch him, and in a separate incident, was charged with sexually assaulting a female patient. Marine Cpl. Christopher M. Monahan Jr., 25, was killed on Nov. 26, the …
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