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Authorities: Central Jersey Man Assaults Somerset Officer Who Busted Him, 2 Others For Fraud Authorities: Central Jersey Man Assaults Somerset Officer Who Busted Him, 2 Others For Fraud
Authorities: Central Jersey Man Assaults Somerset Officer Who Busted Him, 2 Others For Fraud One of three people who fraudulently took out $10,000 in cash from a local bank hit a responding Warren Township police officer in the face then ran, police said. Deleon Hutchenson , 25, of Sayreville; Rebecca Burlew, 43, of Keyport and Lemar Lodge, 37, of East Orange were arrested on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, theft by deception, resisting arrest and more, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said Tuesday. An employee of the Bank of America on Mountain Boulevard called police headquarters to report a possibly-fraudulent cash withdrawal of $10,000 aro…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
NEW RANKINGS: These New Jersey Towns Named Among Safest In State NEW RANKINGS: These New Jersey Towns Named Among Safest In State
NEW Rankings: These New Jersey Towns Named Among Safest In State A new report from AdvisorSmith ranked the crime rates of hundreds of municipalities across New Jersey to determine the safest small, midsize and large cities. The study — which analyzed a total of 37 large cities, 200 midsize cities and 247 small cities — used data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Dataset to calculate and compare crime levels, putting more weight on serious and violent crimes like murder, rape and assault. The analysis found the safest small, midsize and large cities to be Matawan, Warren Township and Middletown, respectively. The average crime score for the large ci…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Fatal Hit-Run Crash Investigated In Middlesex County Fatal Hit-Run Crash Investigated In Middlesex County
Fatal Hit-Run Crash Investigated In Middlesex County Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Central Jersey that resulted in the death of a 55-year-old man from Somerset County. David Wojcik, 55, of Warren Township was struck at 8:39 p.m. on Wednesday near Somerset Street and Millstone Road in New Brunswick by a sedan, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and New Brunswick Police Director AnthonyA. Caputo. The sedan, which sustained front-end damage, fled scene of the fatal collision, they said. Wojcik was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, th…

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by Jon Craig