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1 Sep

Acting AG Platkin Announces the Indictment of Eight Individuals Allegedly Operating a Prostitution and Human Trafficking Ring in Central Jersey

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that eight defendants were indicted on first-degree racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with a prostitution and human trafficking ring they allegedly operated in Mercer and Monmouth counties. During a four-month investigation, detectives from the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) discovered...

5 Aug

Man convicted after slashing 25-year-old’s throat outside N.J. bar

A man who slashed the throat of another bar-goer with a knife following an argument outside a Rahway bar last summer has been convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and weapons offenses, authorities said. Michael G. Johnston, 45, of Winfield Park faces up to 10 years in state prison...

3 Aug

Bound Brook Man Charged With Aggravated Sexual Assault Of Child

BOUND BROOK, NJ — A Bound Brook man was arrested after police say he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald announced. Lenic S. Galvin, 20, of Linden Avenue, Bound Brook, was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault by contact and third-degree endangering...

26 Feb

NJ governor ‘deeply disturbed’ by video showing Black teen handcuffed, pinned by police

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said on Wednesday he was “deeply disturbed” by a video that shows police officers arresting a Black teen but not a Latino teen when breaking up a fight between two boys. The video shows police officers in Bridgewater, N.J., responding to a fight at...

26 Feb

Three men arrested for attempted murder in Plainfield shooting

Almost one year after Plainfield Police units responded to the area of Liberty and West 4th Streets after multiple calls of shots fired on April 26th, an investigation by the Union County Prosecutor’s Office’s and the Plainfield Police Department has led to arrest of three men. The accused have been...

17 Feb

A British man accused of sexually assaulting a woman arrested

A British man has been arrested after a woman alleged that he raped her on a United Airlines flight from New Jersey to London’s Heathrow Airport. According to a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police, the investigation is ongoing. “At 06:39hrs on Monday, 31 January police at Heathrow Airport were alerted...

14 Feb

Accused killer arrested in shooting of 39-year-old N.J. man, prosecutor says

A 33-year-old man was arrested Monday and charged in the shooting death of a Warren County resident in Paterson, authorities said. Jaquawn Housey was charged with murder and weapons-related offenses in the slaying of 39-year-old Rodney Phelps, according to Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes. Read more ….

10 Feb

A 26-year-old New Jersey man face first-degree murder charge