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Somerset Teen Convicted Of Assaulting Employee, Fracturing Face: Prosecutor
A 19-year-old Somerset teen was convicted on Friday, May 10, of brutally beating an employee at a business in Franklin Township in Nov. 2022, authorities said.
On Nov. 23, 2022, Yahmir Brown, along with a juvenile, assaulted at an employee of a local business on Hamilton Street in Franklin Township, Somerset County Prosecutor John McDonald said.
The employee suffered multiple facial fractures, authorities said. Brown was convicted of aggravated assault and faces a mandatory prison sentence, McDonald said alongside Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of County Detectives Fra…
FedEx Driver Points Police To Bronx Thief On Quiet Waldwick Street: Authorities
An alert FedEx driver pointed police in Waldwick to a Bronx man waiting on a quiet dead-end street for packages that he fraudulently had delivered there, authorities said.
Officers Chris Sanchez, Dillon Sherman and Jake Wanamaker responded to her call and found the dark-colored sedan with Florida plates on Lee Court, just off Wyckoff Avenue, around 2 p.m. Friday, May 10, Lt. Troy E. Seifert said.
They arrested the driver, Juan Soriano, 34, after Detective TJ Palaia discovered that he'd gone there to collect fraudulently ordered packages, the lieutenant said.
Soriano, who lives 25 mile…
NJ Driver, 33, In Deadly Hit-Run Made U-Turn Before Returning: Prosecutor
A Flemington man has been arrested in a deadly pedestrian crash, authorities in Somerset County said.
Andres Estaban Silva, 33, was in a 2019 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck heading north on Veterans Memorial Drive and turning left onto Somerset Street in Somerville, when he struck a 72-year-old resident on Friday, April 26 around 6:10 p.m., Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said.
Following the crash, Silva made a U-turn and fled east on Veterans Memorial Drive, McDonald said. It wasn't long before he returned to the scene and parked in a lot on Somerset Street near the crash site…
