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Where Is Central Jersey? Monmouth U. Poll Finds Answers To NJ's Tricky Regional Debate
Monmouth University pollsters have tried to answer a question that has been hard to solve for many in the Garden State: Where is Central Jersey exactly? The Monmouth University Polling Institute released a survey on Tuesday, Apr. 16 that asked New Jerseyans what region they live in and if they believe their region gets a fair share of state resources. The pollsters also asked people to pick their favorite convenience store. According to the poll, 41 percent of New Jerseyans said they live in North Jersey, 34 percent said they're in Central Jersey, and 23 percent said they're from South…
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Bizman Sentenced For IRS Tax Dodge: 2½ Years In Prison, $11.2 Million Restitution
UPDATE: An Ocean County businessman who stiffed the IRS out of more than $10 million in payroll taxes is headed to federal prison for a plea-bargained 2½ years. Josef Neuman, 37, of Lakewood, also must pay $11.2 million, including interest, that he still owes the government. Neuman was CEO of the Lakewood-based Concord Healthcare Group, which provided services to nursing homes and other healthcare operations -- including 20 or so that he also co-owned, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Despite being responsible for collecting, accounting for and paying the payroll taxe…
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Man Admits Anti-Semitic Rampage: Running Down Victims, Stabbing, Carjacking
A Jersey Shore man admitted in federal court on Thursday that he committed a series of violent assaults on members of the Jewish Orthodox community in and around Lakewood. What became a rampage over roughly seven hours began when Dion Marsh, 29, of Manchester, dragged a "visibly identifiable" Orthodox Jew out of his car, beat him and sped off in the victim's vehicle on April 8, 2022, authorities said. Marsh was driving a different car in the heavily Orthodox community hours later when he ran down victims in three separate incidents, attempting to kill each of them, U.S. Attorney for New Jer…
Police & Fire
Antisemitic Carjacker Pleads Guilty To 2022 Jersey Shore Rampage: Prosecutors
A Manchester Township man admitted to a series of antisemitic attacks in Ocean County that hospitalized three people, including an Orthodox Jewish man who was stabbed, authorities said. Dion Marsh, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism on Wednesday, Jan. 24, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billheimer announced. Prosecutors will seek a 30-year state prison sentence without parole for Marsh. Billhimer praised police for potentially saving lives and reiterated that hate does not belong in Ocean County. "The evidence marshaled through the course of this investigation led us to the unmis…
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'Reckless' Owner Of Princeton Nursing Home That Abruptly Closed Barred From Receiving Medicaid
New Jersey has cut off Medicaid funding for a nursing home that abruptly closed its doors to 72 patients last fall. Princeton Care Center closed suddenly on Sept. 1, 2003, and only notified residents' families that morning — leaving them with just hours to relocate, as first reported by Planet Princeton. Gail and Ezra Bogner, the owner and administrator of Princeton Care Center, respectively, will be suspended from New Jersey Medicaid, effective March 28, the Office of the State Comptroller said. “The Bogners’ recklessness, neglect, and incredibly poor judgment caused serious harm and…
Police & Fire
Couple Killed In Parkway Crash With Snowplow
A man and woman from Lakewood were killed after crashing into a snowplow truck on the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County, authorities said. State police said an SUV driven by 29-year-old Eliyahu Naydavoud was heading north on the parkway in Tinton Falls around 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 15. A snowplow truck was also traveling north and tried to turn into an emergency vehicle U-turn area near mile marker 104.2. Naydavoud's SUV crashed into the side of the snowplow. He and 30-year-old Raizel Rothenberg were killed in the crash. According to The Yeshiva World, Naydavoud…
Police & Fire
Road Rage Driver Gets Year In Prison For Crash That Killed Jersey Shore Newlywed
A 21-year-old Ocean County man was sentenced to prison for a 2021 road rage crash that killed another driver just weeks after his wedding. Avrohom Pam was 18 years old when he struck Brick Township's Sean Avon head-on, during a road rage incident involving a different driver in June 2021 in Lakewood, Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer has said. Pam was sentenced Wednesday, Nov. 8 to to 364 days in the Ocean County Jail, as a condition of a three-year term of probation imposed, "Sean Avon was an innocent bystander driving home from working late at work, just hoping to get home to …
Police & Fire
Teens Who Tossed Eggs At Pedestrians Arrested In Ocean County: Police
Three teenagers from Brick have been arrested for tossing eggs at pedestrians and property in Lakewood, authorities said. On Friday, Nov. 3, Lakewood police received several calls about the occupants of a Nissan Altima throwing eggs. At approximately 12:40 a.m., Officer Nicholas Romeo, with assistance from members of the Lakewood Civilian Safety Watch, located the vehicle near Lanes Mill Road and Joe Parker Road. The occupants later identified as 18-year-old Zack Hadley, 18-year-old Jace Pichirallo and a 17-year-old juvenile male, all of Brick, were arrested after officers "observed …
Obituaries
Lakewood Salsa Dancer ID'd As Victim Of Howell Rollover Crash
Police have identified the 51-year-old man from Lakewood killed when his vehicle overturned in Monmouth County, authorities said. Victor Ardiles was killed in the single-vehicle crash at 11:02 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6 near Lanes Mill Road and Lanes Pond Road, Howell Township police said. Ardiles was operating an SUV in the eastbound lanes of Lanes Mill Road when he ran off the road on a curve and struck a concrete mailbox, police said. Ardiles struck a brick landscaping wall and flipped over, police said. Ardiles, who was trapped inside, was pronounced dead at the scene. Th…
Police & Fire
Man Trapped In Industrial Machinery Dies In NJ
First responders' attempts to save a man trapped in industrial machinery were futile as the man died on Friday morning, Aug. 25, in Ocean County. OSHA is investigating the fatality at Cambridge Pavingstones, according to Lenore Uddyback-Fortson, regional director of the federal agency. The man was found unresponsive in the machine at 10 Havenwood Court in Lakewood just after 7:30 a.m., Lakewood police said. Responders were able to free the man and began life-saving measures. Unfortunately, efforts were unsuccessful and the man was pronounced dead at the scene, police sa…
Police & Fire
NJ Driver Bailed In Crash That Left Passenger Dead: Prosecutor
A 26-year-old man has been arrested for leaving the scene of a crash that left his passenger dead in Ocean County, authorities said. Angel Garcia-Rodriguez, 26, of Lakewood, was behind the wheel of a 2007 Honda Civic when he lost control and struck a utility pole on James Street around 2:25 a.m. Saturday, July 22, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Officers found a critically injured male in the passenger seat of the vehicle. He was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where he died, Billhimer said. Garcia-Rodriguez fled the scene before police a…
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Popular Kosher Supermarket Opening In North Jersey
Seasons Express is coming to Bergen County. The popular kosher supermarket is opening a location at 465-467 Cedar Lane in Teaneck, replacing a Wells Fargo. The new Seasons Express comes on the heels of the supermarket closing its location in Clifton, after the store unexpectedly lost its lease. Currently, the only Seasons Express in New Jersey is in Lakewood. An opening date for the new Teaneck location has not been announced.
Police & Fire
Fire Erupts At UPS Facility At Jersey Shore
Firefighters worked to knock down a massive fire that broke out at a UPS facility in Ocean County Wednesday, June 28. The blaze erupted just before 7 p.m. at the Vassar Avenue facility in Lakewood. According to CBS, at least six trailers and part of the warehouse were damaged. JUST IN: UPS truck on fire at the @UPS facility in Lakewood pic.twitter.com/ouz9rKSK95 — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) June 28, 2023 The Lakewood Scoop posted footage from the scene.
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Wrestling Champ Who Coached Kids Admits Trafficking Child Porn
UPDATE: A former New Jersey state wrestling champion who made national headlines when he came out admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he trafficked child porn, authorities said. Alec Donovan, a 26-year-old youth wrestling coach and referee from Brick, “used an internet-based application to exchange multiple images and videos of child sexual abuse, including depictions involving pre-pubescent children,” U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said after the June 6 plea hearing in Trenton. Donovan, who records show has coached at the Shorething Wrestling Club in Lakewood, also …
Police & Fire
NJ Man Who Killed GF Found On Maryland Roadside: Prosecutor
A 59-year-old Lakewood man has been charged with killing his live-in girlfriend before fleeing to Maryland, authorities said. John Filistovich was charged on Thursday, June 1 with murder in connection with the beating and suffocation of Betty Perry, 60, of Lakewood, they said. On Tuesday, May 30, at approximately 12:15 p.m., Lakewood Township Police responded to a residence on Thornbury Court to conduct a welfare check on Perry, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. Police found the dead body of a woman, later identified as Perry, on the floor of the bed…
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Skull Fracture Among Injuries Suffered In Lakewood Carnival Accident
Three people were hospitalized, including one with a possible skull fracture, after an accident at a Lakewood carnival Monday, April 9, authorities said. Two other people sustained less serious injuries at the event, according to Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith, a Lakewood Police Department spokesman. The accident happened at a private event on Summer Avenue. According to abc7, an inflatable bounce house blew over. A pregnant woman suffered abdominal pain and two other adults suffered head injuries, the outlet said citing police. No other details were immediately available.
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Disgruntled Employee Admits Torching Jersey Shore Business After Being Fired: Police
A 26-year-old Toms River man admitted to setting a Lakewood business on fire after being terminated, authorities aid. Jorge Euxaque-Ballesteros pleaded guilty on Friday, March 31, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. On Jan. 19, 2022, at approximately 2 a.m., Lakewood Township police and firefighters were dispatched to a business on Cross Street in reference to a sprinkler system alarm. Firefighters were able to extinguish a fire in the basement of the business. Investigators determined that the cause of the fire was incendiary by an unknown …
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Machete-Wielding Man's Lakewood Menacing Not Considered Anti-Semitic, Authorities Say
An incident involving a man who menaced pedestrians with a machete in Lakewood was not believed to have been an anti-Semitic attack, authorities said. Max Sanchez, 22, approached five pedestrians along Forest Avenue near 6th Street with the weapon around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, March 13, local police said. Although the incident occurred in a neighborhood where a large portion of Orthodox Jewish families live, "there is nothing that indicates that Sanchez chose to menace the victims based on their religious beliefs," police said in a statement. Although no specific threats were made to a…
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Convicted Jersey Shore Sex Offender Who Collected 1,000 Child Porn Images Admits Grooming Girl
A convicted sex offender living in Ocean County who collected more than 1,000 child porn videos -- after convincing more than two dozen underage girls to record some of them – took a guilty plea in federal court on Wednesday, authorities said. Samuel Schwinger, a 37-year-old British national living in Lakewood, was on 10-year probation for similar offenses out of Brooklyn when he posed as an 11-year-old girl to groom another pre-teen in Oklahoma in 2019, a federal complaint says. "I'll send you a vid of what I'm wearing now and then u send me of u and then my turn again k?" Schwinger texted…
Police & Fire
Video Shows Parkway Crash That Purportedly Struck Trooper On Scene Of Another Accident
A crash that injured a New Jersey State trooper on the scene of another accident was captured on dashcam footage, according to New Jersey State Police and The Lakewood Scoop. The footage shows a vehicle plowing into another car that then overturns, and gets pushed several feet near mile marker 89.4 in Lakewood at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11. CAUGHT ON VIDEO: A multi-accident on the GSP (mm 98) involving an overturned vehicle was caught on dashcam. It was at this accident a NJ Trooper was struck and injured. He was transported to JSUMC for treatment. pic.twitter.com/xhcXuD8T99 — The Lak…
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Driver Assaults Orthodox Man In Lakewood Road Rage Incident (
Video
): Report
A road rage incident involving an Orthodox Jewish man being assaulted by another driver was captured on video, according to The Lakewood Scoop. While it was not clear exactly what happened leading up to the incident, witnesses told TLS that a black man got out of his car to scream at the Jewish driver then grabbed his phone. Police are investigating a road rage incident caught on video in Lakewood pic.twitter.com/96x57AwJVG — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) June 1, 2022 The black man was captured assaulting the Jewish man on camera and later apparently got in his car and left, tos…
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Manifesto
: Buffalo Mass Shooter Says These NJ Communities Are 'Deplorable'
Lakewood, Toms River, Jersey City and Brooklyn, NY, are among the Jewish communities that Buffalo's accused mass shooter considers "deplorable'' in a 180-page manifesto, according to multiple news reports. Payton Gendron, 18, was arraigned Saturday on first-degree murder charges and ordered detained without bail on accusations he carefully planned the massacre at a Buffalo supermarket that left ten people dead. Eleven of the 13 people he shot were black, reports say. Gendron had penned a 180-page manifesto that named Lakewood and Toms River among the communities that the alleged shooter con…
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Jersey Shore Man Set Dozens Of Fires In 4 Towns: Prosecutor
A 32-year-old man from Ocean County has been indicted in connection with setting dozens of fires in four townships, authorities said. ALSO SEE: 'Red Flag' Warning Issued For NJ As Risk Of Serious Fires Rises Dramatically Gregory Fullman, Jr., of Manchester Township, was indicted by a Grand Jury on 28 counts of aggravated arson, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. The charges are in connection with multiple fires that occurred in the Townships of Little Egg Harbor, Manchester, Lakewood, and Wall — between May 2021 and January 2022, he sai…
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600 Pounds Of Pot, Fentanyl, Cocaine Seized In Jersey Shore Bust: Prosecutor
Nearly 600 pounds of marijuana, 3.5 ounces of cocaine, two weapons and nearly $158,000 in cash were seized during a drug bust along the Jersey Shore, authorities said. The investigation focused on the distribution of cocaine, marijuana, and pain medication laced with fentanyl in the Ocean and Mercer County areas, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. The cooperative, multi-agency investigation identified three residences in Ewing, one residence in Lakehurst, and a motor vehicle located in Lakewood, as being utilized by Ronald Walker, 37, of Ewing, an…
News
Feds Charge NJ Man With Hate Crimes For Series Of 'Blood Bath' Assaults On Orthodox Jews
UPDATE: An antisemitic Jersey Shore man who authorities said warned of a “blood bath” before an hours-long spree of violent attacks on members of the Orthodox Jewish community in and around Lakewood has been charged with federal hate crimes. Dion Marsh, 27, of Manchester, originally was charged locally with three counts of attempted murder and bias intimidation after police said he ran down two men and stabbed another in the chest last weekend. U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced on Wednesday, April 20 that his office and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division…
Police & Fire
Anti-Semite Was Fresh Off Breakup When He Went On Crime Spree Targeting 'Devil' Jews: Report
A 27-year-old Jersey Shore man had recently broken up with his girlfriend before he went on an hours-long crime spree targeting Hasidic Jews, who he referred to as "the real devils," NJ Advance Media reports. Dion Marsh was found clutching a machete on a bed in his Manchester home when police found him last Friday night, after he struck two victims with his car and stabbed another, the outlet said. Marsh also told family members it was "going to be a blood bath," NJ.com says citing court documents. Marsh, of Manchester, approached a 2016 Toyota Camry, near MLK Drive and Pine Street, assau…
Police & Fire
Carjacker's Anti-Semitic Jersey Shore Rampage Sparks Sadness, Outrage
Jewish communities around the world were left reeling following a series of anti-Semitic attacks against Orthodox Jews carried out by a carjacker on the Jersey Shore last week. All three victims of 27-year-old Dion Marsh's violent crime spree in Jackson and Lakewood were believed to have been Orthodox Jews. Marsh struck two pedestrians and stabbed a victim before his arrest on Friday, April 8, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was "saddened and outraged" by the attacks. “I am personally horrified at the cruelty with which the suspect alle…
News
Lakewood Man, 36, Killed In 3-Vehicle Crash: Police
A 36-year-old man from Lakewood was killed in a three-vehicle crash, authorities said. Oliver Vazquez has been identified as the victim of the crash on Madison Avenue just south of 9th Street on Saturday, April 2 just before 9 p.m. A GoFundMe was launched in an effort to help bring his body to Mexico, his home country. Upon arrival, police determined that a 2006 Ford F-350, operated by 38-year-old Matthew Sebolt of Colts Neck had side-swiped a 2010 Honda Accord as he was traveling north along Madison Avenue, police said. The Honda Accord, operated by 34-year-old Moshe Mashitz also was tr…
Obituaries
Sheriff's Officer Who Founded Mounted Unit Killed In Lakewood Crash
An off-duty Ocean County Sheriff's officer who started his agency's mounted unit was killed in a pre-dawn Valentine's Day crash, authorities said. Brian Stockhoff, 41, was heading south on Shorrock Street when his 2005 Toyota Sienna struck a brick wall outside of the Leisure Village East community at the border of Lakewood and Brick Township around 3:45 a.m., Lakewood Police Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith said. Stockhoff's vehicle came to a stop near Dumbarton Drive in 2014. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene a short time later. Stockhoff founded the sheriff's Mounted Unit in 2014 wi…
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Anti-Semite Refused Medical Care Because EMTs Were Jewish: Report (
Video
)
A video showing a Lakewood resident refusing to accept medical care because the volunteer first responders from Lakewood EMS were Jewish, Yeshiva World News reports. "She don't want to talk to you guys," the woman's husband is heard telling the EMTs. "No judio." "If she doesn't feel well you have to get medical help," an EMT can be heard saying. Paramedics were then called to help the women, but they also were Jewish, the outlet said. Eventually, the woman was treated and taken to an area hospital by the Jewish first responders — "but not before she threw a fit," YWN says. Earlier …
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Plow Employee Who Splashed Lakewood Orthodox Jews With Snow Fired: Report
A snowplow worker slammed on social media for tossing snow onto a pair of unsuspecting Orthodox Jewish men has been fired from his job, NJ Advance Media reports. Donny Klarmann posted then deleted the video, which shows the plow driver dumping a load of snow onto the men walking to Saturday services then driving away. One of the workers can be heard chuckling. Posted by Paula R. Stern on Sunday, January 30, 2022 The man's employer, Waste Management, issued a statement on Tuesday, Feb. 1: “While the incident did not involve a company vehicle or company equipment, the employee associated…
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