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24-Year-Old Passenger Killed In Car That Rolled Onto Parked Vehicles On Route 35 In Sayreville
Authorities have identified the 24-year-old man killed in a single-car crash over the weekend on Route 35 in Sayreville. Zion Jackson, of Keansburg, was a passenger in the vehicle that crashed near Fred’s Bait and Tackle Shop around 5 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. A 2009 Acura TL was heading south on Route 35 when it veered off the roadway striking a safety bollard for a fire hydrant and then rolled over onto the two parked vehicles, the prosecutor said. Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver and a second passenger were hospit…
Obituaries
Friends Killed In Route 18 Crash Remembered With Motorcycle Ride
Several events have been planned to remember two young friends and motorcyclists killed in a multi-vehicle crash earlier this week in Monmouth County. Ka'shon K. Cross, 18, of Hazlet, and Gregory K. Tuft, of Keansburg, were identified as victims in a fatal collision with three cars along Route 18 in Marlboro on Monday, July 24, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. So sad to hear about the passing of Gregory Tutt. This kid was always so kind and genuine. Always a smile on his face... Posted by Anthony Viera on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 A balloon release organized for Grego…
Police & Fire
Ex-Hudson Sheriff's Officer Admits $98,000 Short-Sale Mortgage Scheme For Jersey Shore Home
A former Hudson County sheriff’s officer admitted defrauding a bank to duck $98,000 in mortgage payments on a Jersey Shore home, federal authorities said. Osbado Hernandez, 54, of Avenel, conspired with others to lie about a bogus short sale of his house in Keansburg so that the unidentified bank would discharge what was left on his mortgage, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Hernandez bought the property for $239,900 in 2006, financing it through a mortgage loan from the victimized bank, a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Trenton says. He ended up behind on the payments,…
Lifestyle
'Chasing Chasing Amy': Famous NJ Movie's Legacy Explored In New Doc
Though "Chasing Amy" is a 90s Garden State classic, a new documentary is exploring its somewhat problematic legacy. "Chasing Chasing Amy" is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, spotlighting "Chasing Amy", Kevin Smith's film about a man who falls in love with a lesbian and develops a relationship with her. Smith, a proud New Jersey native, filmed the movie throughout his home state, including in Brick, Asbury Park, Keansburg, Leonardo, Middletown, Red Bank and Rumson. In the documentary, director Sav Rodgers explores how the film changed his life. Rodgers was 12-years old …
News
Feds: Jersey Shore Dealer Convicted Of Selling Cocaine, Crack In Monmouth, Ocean Counties
An ex-con was convicted in federal court of selling cocaine and crack along the Jersey Shore, authorities said. Damion “Checks” Helmes, 42, of Cliffwood was the last of 20 defendants convicted of peddling the drug throughout Monmouth County and into Ocean County. Jurors in U.S. District Court in Trenton found Helmes guilty of various drug-dealing charges while acquitting him of two gun offenses following a two-week trial. Helmes had already done time following a drug and gun bust in Keansburg in 2004, records show. Initially busted by the locals, Helmes was charged federally by the FBI’s …
News
Police Justified In Shooting Jersey Shore Drugstore Robber Who Stabbed Officer, Grand Jury Says
UPDATE: Police were justified in shooting an ex-con who’d stabbed a Keansburg lieutenant with a large knife while holding a pharmacy worker hostage during a robbery, a state grand jury ruled. James Sutton, 55, of Keansburg, was holding up the Keansburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street when officers responding to multiple 911 calls arrived shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2022, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Sutton had “demanded oxycodone, and was holding a pharmacy employee at knifepoint,” Platkin said. Two officers deployed their Tasers with no effect, t…
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: Powerball Lottery Player Takes Home $50K On Jersey Shore
One New Jersey Lottery ticket matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball for the Wednesday, April 13, drawing to win the $50,000 third-tier prize. The ticket was sold at Circle K – Keansburg, 120 Carr Ave., Keansburg in Monmouth County. The winning numbers for the Wednesday, April 13, drawing were: 14, 16, 41, 63, and 68. The Red Power Ball number was 26. The Power Play was 2X. The Powerball jackpot rolls to $325 million for the next drawing to be held Saturday, April 16, at 10:59 pm. The Double Play drawing results for the Wednesday, April 13, drawing were: 17, 51, 54, …
Police & Fire
WWE Star Tammy Sytch Of NJ Arrested In Deadly FL Crash: Report
WWE star and New Jersey resident Tammy Sytch has been arrested for the third time in three months, this time for DUI in a Florida crash that left another person dead, TMZ reports The Hall of Famer was behind the wheel of a 2012 Mercedes when she struck the back of a 2013 Kia Sorento stopped at a stoplight just before 8:30 p.m. on March 25 on US Highway 1 in Volusia County, TMZ says citing police. The Kia was sent into the back of a 2011 GMC Yukon, also stopped at the light, ultimately killing the Kia driver, police said. Police said they believed Sytch was under the influence of alcohol at…
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Pro Wrestling Star Tammy Sytch Charged With Threatening Partner With Scissors At Jersey Shore
Pro wrestling Hall of Famer turned adult entertainment star Tammy “Sunny” Sytch spent a night in jail after threatening to kill an "intimate partner" with a pair of scissors at the Jersey Shore, authorities said. Tamara Lynn Sytch, 49, "appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol" when she raised the scissors in the air and threatened to kill the unidentified man early Thursday in Keansburg, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Freehold alleges. He wasn’t injured, it says. The Matawan native was booked into the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, also in Freehold, on c…
News
Authorities ID Ex-Con Shot, Killed After Stabbing Officer During Jersey Shore Drugstore Robbery
UPDATE: An ex-con who was shot and killed by police who interrupted a robbery at a Keansburg drug store had stabbed an officer with a large knife and threatened a pharmacy worker, New Jersey's top law enforcer said Tuesday. James Sutton, 55, of Keansburg, was holding up the Keansburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street when officers responding to multiple 911 calls arrived shortly before 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Sutton "was holding a large knife and threatening to harm an employee of the pharmacy" and then stabbed an …
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AG: Armed Robber Shot, Killed After Stabbing Officer At Jersey Shore Drugstore (
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UPDATE: An armed robber who stabbed a Keansburg police officer was shot and killed by police at a local drug store Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Multiple officers fired at the robber at the Keansburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street shortly before 3:30 p.m., Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, the attorney general said. His identity was temporarily being withheld. The officer was taken to Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel. Three other officers were hospitalized for evaluations, responders said…
News
Mayor: Suspect Shot, Killed After Stabbing Officer At Jersey Shore Drugstore
An armed robber who stabbed a Keansburg police officer was shot and killed by police at a local drug store Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Multiple officers fired at the robber at the Keanburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street shortly before 3:30 p.m., Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, the attorney general said. His identity was temporarily being withheld, Bruck said. The officer was taken to Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel. Three other officers were hospitalized for evaluations, responders sa…
News
Drug Ring Member Who Trafficked Coke, Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Into NJ Bayshore Gets 16½ Years
A member of a drug ring that trafficked massive amounts of heroin and cocaine into the Bayshore areas of Monmouth and Middlesex counties must spend more than 16 years in federal prison. Guy Jackson, 49, of Effort, PA must serve just about all of the 200-month sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. It was by far the stiffest term handed down so far in U.S. District Court in Trenton following a sweep led by federal investigators. Members of the network funneled heroin and cocaine into the Raritan Bayshore, which stretches from the Amboys to Sandy Hook, forming the n…
News
NJ Man Indicted For Sending Explicit Photos Of Teen To Her Friends, Family: Prosecutor
A 38-year-old man from Jersey City has been indicted for distributing illicit photos of a minor who allegedly shunned him, authorities. An 18-count indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County Grand Jury, charges David Lopez with soliciting illicit photos and videos from a teenage girl, then distributing them to members of her family in retaliation for her threatening to break off contact with him, authorities said. He was charged with first-degree manufacturing child sexual abuse materials, multiple counts of endangering the welfare of of a child, making terroristic&…
News
Jersey Shore Man Forced Girl, 14, To Carve His Initials Above Her Breast, Indictment Charges
A Jersey Shore man who convinced a 14-year-old girl he met online to carve his initials above her breast with a razor blade threatened to hurt her and her family if she didn’t meet his demands, an indictment returned Wednesday by a state grand jury alleges. Jason Berry, 40, of Keansburg also “demanded that the girl photograph herself engaging in acts of sexual penetration,” then sent some of the images to her mother, the indictment returned in Trenton charges. He also sent the girl “sexually explicit photos and videos of himself,” it adds. The case “demonstrates how powerful online predato…
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Feds: Member Of Ring That Trafficked Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Into NJ Bayshore Gets 7½ Years
A member of a drug ring that trafficked large quantities of heroin and cocaine into the Bayshore areas of Monmouth and Middlesex counties must spend the next 7½ years in federal prison. Daniel McHugh, 51, of Sayreville on Wednesday became the latest member of the ring sentenced in U.S. District Court in Trenton in connection with a federally-led sweep. Co-defendant Brian Hall, 49, of Freehold, meanwhile, was sentenced to eight months of home confinement and three years probation. Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said the two were part of a network that funneled heroin and cocaine int…
News
Down Down, Do Your Thing! NJ Sanitation Workers Caught Dancing On The Job
All work and no play makes Keansburg sanitation workers dull boys. A video of the men doing the "Cupid Shuffle" Wednesday morning is going viral. Kenneth Cook's video shows the men recording each other and dancing alongside a Roselle garbage truck. "Nothing like waking up to the Cupid Shuffle," Cook told Daily Voice. "They just got a speaker like a week ago, fairly recently, never saw them dancing though." The video was featured on "Good Morning America" and shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter. "These guys are the hype!!," Cook said on Facebook. "Thanks so much for sending …
Police & Fire
NJ Pedophile Roundup: 21 Caught Having Or Trying To Have Sex With Kids, AG Says
One pedophile traveled to Atlantic City from Oklahoma for sex with two pre-teenage girls. Another had a girl carve his initials into her legs. A third posted a social media video of her raping a youngster she was babysitting. These were among 21 people busted in a massive state pedophile roundup, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday. Opportunities for predators to contact children directly have dramatically increased with remote home learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, Grewal said. “Reports to our Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force of potential pred…
News
Complete Rundown Of George Floyd Marches, Vigils Planned Across Garden State
Many more marches and other demonstrations in memory of George Floyd are planned in New Jersey and across the nation this week. Protests over Floyd’s death in Minneapolis have swept across the country Four Minnesota police officers who were at the scene of Floyd’s death were fired, and one of them, Derek Chauvin, was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. At least seven such rallies were set for Tuesday, June 2 including: In Princeton, the Coalition for Peace in Princeton will hold a peaceful protest at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Nassau and Witherspoon streets. In Kean…
Police & Fire
Three Charged With Attempted Murder In Jersey Shore Drive-By
Authorities charged three Monmouth County residents with attempted murder for a drive-by shooting three months ago in Keansburg. Wayne Jones Jr., 23, of Keansburg, Tyrone Bailey, 21 of Asbury Park, and Brittany Smalls, 25, of Neptune Township also were charged with weapons offenses in connection with the Feb. 20 shooting, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said Saturday. Detectives from various law enforcement agencies identified the trio after the intended victim was shot at from a vehicle on Seabreeze Way near Pinewood Place, Gramiccioni said. Police found Jones and tw…
Police & Fire
One Dead, One Missing In Rash Of Boating Accidents Up And Down Jersey Coast
A rash of water mishaps up and down the Jersey Coast continued Saturday with a search for a missing kayaker in the Raritan Bay, less than 24 hours after a Toms River boater drowned in Barnegat Bay -- and moments before two other people had to be rescued off Keansburg. Authorities on Sunday suspended a search for the kayaker. Search and rescue crews in New Jersey and on Staten Island searched the water after a passerby rescued two of the victim's companions when all three of their kayaks overturned near the Great Beds Lighthouse in South Amboy around 3 p.m. Saturday. None were wearing life …
Police & Fire
Wife Of Former Jersey Shore Mayor Found Shot Dead At Home
The wife of former Long Branch Mayor Philip Huhn deliberately shot and killed herself in her home Friday morning, authorities confirmed. Investigators determined that the death of June Huhn, 73, was a suicide, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccionni said. Officers responding to the Norwood Avenue home found Kuhn dead from a gunshot wound to the chest, the prosecutor said, adding that her husband, 75, was home when they arrived His detectives investigated along with Long Branch police. Philip Huhn was mayor of Long Branch from 1982 to 1990 and later worked as city manag…
Lifestyle
10 Most Popular Pizzerias In Monmouth County
Craving a slice of crispy, cheesy pizza loaded with toppings in Monmouth County? Here are 10 places you can try today. The spots you see on this list were top-rated on several user-generated review sites, featured in local publications and recommended by Daily Voice readers. Some are longtime favorites while others have only recently opened their doors. All of these pizzerias, however, are dishing up pies we think you'll love. Federici's: The Federici family has been serving up thin-crust pizza and "unsurpassed" hospitality for the better part of a century, now with locations in Belmar, F…
Police & Fire
Elmwood Park Woman Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam
An Elmwood Park woman is facing four years in state prison after she collected $53,800 in fraudulent insurance claims for purported losses following Superstorm Sandy and filing false bankruptcy application, authorities said. Katreecea Cline, 49 of Elmwood Park, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree insurance fraud and one count of second-degree fraud by insolvency in a hearing before Superior Court Judge James J. Guida in Bergen County, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced. Cline admitted she submitted fake and altered receipts to her insurance company supporting claims alle…
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