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Police Bear No Responsiblity In Old Bridge Man's Drug Death, Grand Jury Finds
Old Bridge police bear no responsibility in the death of a township man in custody while he was high on drugs, a state grand jury found.
Frank Zampini, 49, was “flailing his arms around” and fighting with a neighbor who was trying to restrain him when officers arrived at the Stratford Apartments on Arcade Lane shortly before 1 a.m. July 15, 2019, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said.
Zampini “was coming down after having used Ecstasy,” Bruck said.
He fought with the officers, as well, trying to bite them, so they handcuffed him “for his own protection as well as their own,” the att…
Police Pepper-Spray Didn't Kill Fair Lawn Man At Paterson Bar -- Alcohol Did, Authorities Find
Paterson police weren’t responsible for the death earlier this year of a 25-year-old Fair Lawn man who’d been involved in a bar fight, state authorities announced Monday. Alcohol was, they said.
In simplified terms, Steven Sherlock drank himself to death, an autopsy showed.
Surveillance video confirmed witnesses’ accounts that Sherlock was involved in a fight with two bar patrons, a man and a woman, at Duffy’s Bar and Tavern on River Street before dawn on March 17, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
Sherlock punched the man repeatedly, apparently knocking him out, he said.
Sherlock “…
