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20 Dec

Middletown police investigate 3 attempted break-ins

Middletown police are investigating three break-ins in town. Officials say the suspects tried to steal cars at the Estates at Bamm Hollow in the Lincroft section of town. Police say they also broke into a home in the Four Winds neighborhood but took off after homeowners confronted them. Read More...

19 Dec

NJ Transit driver arrested after shooting teens who attacked him

JERSEY CITY — A rookie NJ Transit bus driver fired at three teenage boys Saturday night after being assaulted outside his bus. Now the driver faces a half-dozen charges, the most serious being attempted murder. Charles Fieros, 48, was assaulted near Monticello & Jewett avenues on the city’s West Side...

19 Sep

Bayonne man is charged after gunfire incident: police

A Bayonne man was arrested after police say he two fired two shots toward an empty lot early Sunday morning. Jay F. Romero, 28, met a man in the area of East 31st Street, fire the shots and then fled in a pickup truck, Bayonne Capt. Eric Amato said. Romero...

6 Sep

Man sought in domestic violence stabbing charged with attempted murder

Authorities are looking for a South Jersey man who allegedly stabbed a woman multiple times during a domestic dispute in a car. The 27-year-old woman was driving her vehicle on Tuckahoe Road in Franklin Township, Gloucester County, on Friday night when her passenger, Joshua T. Sammons, 26, of Minotola, allegedly...

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...