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$32K Worth Of Heroin Seized In NJ Turnpike Drug Raid, Man Charged: Prosecutor
A 52-year-old Teaneck man was arrested and charged after he was found transporting $32,000 in heroin, which authorities said was seized from him along the NJ Turnpike in Mercer County. Officers began surveilling Edwin Vargas after receiving information he was transporting large quantity of narcotics into Hamilton Township near the Woodrow Wilson Service Area, Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta D. Marbrey said. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 11:30 a.m., law enforcement conducted a motor vehicle stop on a Kia Telluride driven by Vargas on the New Jersey Turnpike, Marbrey said. Vargas was detained…
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Boy, 6, Killed In NJ Apartment Fire That Injured 17 Was Visiting Relatives: Police (
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A six-year-old Central New York boy was visiting his family in Ewing when he died in a massive apartment fire that injured 17 people and left at least 16 without homes, authorities said. Jayden Gotell-Watkins of Baldwinsville, NY, was identified as the victim killed in the Cambridge Hall fire, the Ewing Police Department said in a news release. Seventeen other victims were hospitalized in the blaze on Thursday, Jan. 2. Investigators said Gotell-Watkins was visiting relatives when the fire broke out on the fourth floor at around 3 p.m. Emergency responders arrived at the scene on Lower …
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Man Sexually Assaulted Sleeping Girl, 6, During Prayer Service In Trenton Home: Prosecutors
A Trenton man was accused of sexually assaulting a young girl while she slept in a home during a prayer service, authorities said. Jose Agustin-Hernandez, 51, was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree criminal sexual contact, and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta Marbrey said in a news release on Monday, Dec. 30. Investigators said Agustin-Hernandez entered a room where a six-year-old girl was sleeping and sexually assaulted her on Tuesday, Dec. 23. The assault happened during an evening prayer servi…
Police & Fire
Trenton Man Dies In Shooting, Investigation Underway: Police
Police were investigating after a man was shot and killed in Trenton, authorities said. Shakeem Lemach Davis of Trenton died in the shooting on Sunday, Dec. 22, Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta Marbrey said in a news release. An age wasn't given for Davis. Officers responded to reports of shots fired on the 100 block of South Cook Avenue at around 5:51 p.m. Davis appeared to have been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation remained ongoing. Anyone with information should call the Mercer County Homicide Task Force at 609-989-6406 or 609-256-0997.
Police & Fire
Elderly Woman Critically Injured In Trenton House Fire, Neighbors Treated For Smoke Inhalation
An elderly woman was fighting for her life after a late-night fire tore through her Trenton home, leaving neighbors injured and displacing multiple residents, authorities said. The 89-year-old woman was critically injured in a house fire on Wednesday, Dec. 4, a Trenton Police Department spokesperson said. The blaze in the Howell Street home was reported at around 11:28 p.m. The fire also impacted a neighboring home, sending two adults and a child to Capital Health Regional Medical Center for smoke inhalation. Another adult from the home was displaced. The Red Cross is provi…
Police & Fire
NJ Man Working As Mascot Got Preteen Girl To Send Him Sexual Pics, Videos: Prosecutors
A New Jersey man who had been employed as a mascot for amusement parks and sports teams including Sesame Place is arrested on accusations he convinced a preteen girl to send him child pornography, authorities said. Don-Diego Parkman, 19, was arrested in mid-September, Acting Mercer County Prosecutor Theresa Hilton said in a news release on Tuesday, Sept. 17. New Jersey investigators said they received a tip from police in Missouri in early September that the preteen was chatting with Parkman and he sent her sexual pictures. Parkman also told the girl to send him photos a…
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Sidewalk Save: Bodycam Footage Shows NJ Officers Saving Choking Baby
Newly-released body-worn camera footage shows two New Jersey police officers saving a choking baby. Hightstown Officers Daniel Abbatemarco and Kenneth Larsen responded to a call of a choking baby girl on March 31. Upon arrival, they were met by a man holding the girl. Larsen arrived on scene and quickly performed the Infant Heimlich Maneuver on the girl, who was breathing again in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, Abbatemarco and Larsen comforted the man holding her and a woman crying at the scene. "She's breathing, she's clear," the officers say. "Let's let out a cry sweetheart!" …
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Trenton Police Sergeant Exposed Himself To Female Officers In Dept. Gym, Lawsuit Claims
A Trenton police sergeant was accused of exposing himself in front of two female officers in the department's gym several times, according to a sexual harassment lawsuit. The two officers filed a civil suit on Friday, Aug. 9 against Sgt. Noel Santiago, accusing him of sexual harassment and other forms of creating a hostile workplace. The officers also claimed the police department didn't properly respond to their allegations against Santiago, who had a supervisory role over them. Daily Voice reached out to the Trenton Police Department to comment on the suit. The department hadn't…
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Former Trenton Teacher, Basketball Coach Sexually Assaulted Student Over Five Years: Prosecutor
A former Trenton elementary school teacher and middle school coach was accused of sexually assaulting a student for about five years, authorities said. Darrell Moody, 51, of Plainfield, was arrested on Monday, Aug. 12, Acting Mercer County Prosecutor Theresa Hilton said in a news release. He was a teacher at Parker Elementary School and a basketball coach at Joyce Kilmer Middle School. Investigators said the victim reported the sexual assault claims to Trenton police in May. Moody met the victim while he was teaching fifth grade at Parker. The victim claims Moody sexually as…
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Camden Man Dies Of Injuries From Trenton Shooting: Prosecutor
A 23-year-old man from Camden died a day after being wounded in a July 2 shooting in Trenton, authorities said on Monday, July 15. Capriest Ruiz was shot early that morning on Euclid Avenue, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office The murder remains under investigation. No arrests had been made. Anyone with information about the fatal shooting is urged to call the prosecutor’s Mercer County Homicide Task Force at 609-989-6406.
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Father Shot Dead Trying To Save Children During 'Horrific' Trenton Carjacking, Mayor Says
A father was shot dead while trying to save his two children from a carjacking on Friday night, July 12 in Trenton, the mayor confirmed. "A young father lost his life in a senseless act of violence, leaving his two minor children witnesses to this horrific event,'' Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said in a press statement. At about 10:20 p.m., police responded to an overturned vehicle near Garfield and Farragut avenues, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said. There was a white Durango with one male victim inside and two children, he said. The victim, identified as Johny Emmanuel Cruz…
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Transportation Worker Dies Days After Quadruple Trenton Shooting: Campaign, Prosecutor
One of four victims of a quadruple shooting in Trenton died days later, officials announced. Samier Vincent, 30, of Trenton, died on Thursday, June 27 — four days after an early morning shooting in Trenton, according to the Mercer County Prosecuror's Office. A story on the shooting by Peterson's Breaking News of Trenton can be found by clicking here. The 1:33 a.m. shooting near Walnut Avenue and Monmouth Street left four people injured, two of them in critical condition, according to a story by Peterson's Breaking News of Trenton. No arrests had been made in the shooting. The …
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NJ Restaurant Owner Preyed On Job Applicant, Sexually Assaulted Others, Authorities Say
The owner of three restaurants in Trenton has been arrested for multiple sexual assaults including a job applicant, authorities said. Gerald Araya, 44, of Ewing, was arrested in Trenton on Wednesday, June 19, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri, Lawrence Township Police Chief Christopher Longo and Trenton Police Director Steve Wilson. He is charged with five counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, one count of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of second-degree sexual assault, one count of first-degree kidnapping, two counts o…
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Killer Who Aimed To 'Flood Streets' Of Trenton With Heroin Gets 17-Year Minimum In Fed Pen
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Jerome “Righteous" Roberts will have to see his 70th birthday before he can taste freedom again. A convicted killer who aimed to "flood the streets" of Trenton with a "motherlode" of heroin, Roberts, 53, was sentenced this week to what will be a minimum of 17 years in federal prison for his role in a drug ring that once dominated the capital city. Federal jurors had convicted Roberts, of Delran, of drug conspiracy following a three-week trial in Trenton in October 2021. U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner, in turn, sentenced the Bloods gang leader to a 245-month prison sentence t…
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Reign Of Terror: NJ Ex-Con Gets 16 Years For Series Of Armed Robberies, Carjackings
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A 25-year-old ex-con from Trenton who’s already served 2½ years in state prison is headed to federal prison for 16 more for a string of gunpoint carjackings and robberies. Joshua M. Perez was one of three armed robbers who commited a Oct. 10 carjacking, another on Dec. 5 and the robbery later than second night of a local gas station, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Surveillance cameras captured video of Perez and two other robbers emerging from a sedan, pointing handguns at occupants of another vehicle, Sellinger said. They then fled with money and cellphones in the victims…
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'You Will All Die': FBI Seizes NJ Man Who Threatened White Massacre
FBI agents in New Jersey seized a discharged U.S. Marine who they said publicly threatened to massacre as many white people as he could. "I want to erase them," Joshua Cobb, 23, posted on social media, according to U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger. "All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can." Interviewed by law enforcement, Cobb admitted writing the posts and even identified what he'd considered potential targets, including a Jersey Strong gym and an Aldi grocery store in Robbinsville, the U.S. attorney said on Monday, May 13. He "also discussed hi…
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Cold
CASE: Two Charged 16 Years After NJ Robbery Victim Is Beaten To Death, Thanks To New Tech
UPDATE: Leroy Julious had planned on whipping up a celebratory dinner after cashing a bonus check from his cook's job at The College of New Jersey when his brutally beaten body was found in a gravel lot across the street from his Ewing home. Julious's murder went unsolved for 16 years -- until authorities announced that technological advances and a shared mission among various agencies and law enforcement forensic experts cracked the cold case. Breyon Goodman, 36, of Trenton, and Jason Howard, 41, of Providence, R.I. killed Julious during a robbery near his Ewing home on May 9, 2008, t…
Schools
NJ Daycare Worker Caused Child's Nose Bleed In Series Of Assaults, Police Papers Say
Three students at a preschool in Mercer County were hit and grabbed aggressively by a childcare teacher, authorities said. In one of the incidents at the Malvern School on Route 33 in Robbinsville, the teacher's slap caused a nosebleed, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Daily Voice. Another incident caused a visible injury to an arm, the paperwork says. Ekta Dwarkesh, 45, of South Brunswick, is charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child by abuse or neglect, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. Surveillance video from the school…
Police & Fire
Triple Ivy-Educated Musical Prodigy, Princeton Queer Alum Trustee Busted With Child Porn: Cops
A man affiliated with several music organizations at Ivy league universities including Princeton has been charged with possession of child pornography, authorities said. Roy "Trey" Farmer, 53, was arrested and charged Friday, March 22 with possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. Farmer is a 1993 graduate of Princeton University and has been involved with several university-related groups, currently serving as president of both the Princeton University Glee Club Foundation and Queer Princeton Alumni, according to multiple online bios and…
Police & Fire
'Trail Of Tragedies': Illegal Rifle Empowered Man Who Murdered 3 In PA, New Jersey AG Says
UPDATE: A killing spree and manhunt in two states this weekend was "the latest in a horrific litany of illustrations of how illegal guns and assault rifles can empower one aggrieved and disturbed actor to do immense damage and leave a trail of tragedies in their wake,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, gunned down his stepmother, his 13-year-old sister and the mother of his two children in separate locations in Falls Township, PA, after carjacking an elderly woman in Trenton to get there, authorities said. The homeless gunman also bludgeoned his girl…
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US Marshals Arrest Trenton Fugitive In Fatal Shooting: Prosecutor
A 38-year-old fugitive from Trenton has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting, authorities said. Chelsey White was charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri. White was arrested on Sunday, March 9 in Branchburg by members of the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, Onofri said. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 28, Trenton police responded to a shooting at 428 Ardmore Ave. Police found an unresponsive man on the porch suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, Onofri …
Police & Fire
New Details Emerge As Feds Take Case Of South Jersey Man Charged With Building Pipe Bombs
Federal authorities on Tuesday announced that they're now handling the prosecution of a South Jersey man who forced a major evacuation of homes and businesses after local police said they found him driving around with homemade pipe bombs in his car. U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip Sellinger announced the move on Jan. 23 while sharing new details about last summer's arrest. Jeremy Giliberti, 52, of Mount Laurel, was stopped by Hamilton Township police in the parking lot of a T-Mobile store on South Broad Street shortly before 11 a.m. last July 26. On the floorboard of the front passenge…
Police & Fire
Police ID Motorcyclist Killed In Weekend Crash In Mercer County
Police have identified the motorcyclist killed in a collision in Ewing Township. Theodore Condo, 57, of Ewing died in the crash on Saturday, Nov. 25, authorities said. At 4:54 p.m., Ewing police responded to a serious crash involving a vehicle and a motorcycle at Parkway Avenue and Walter Street in Ewing. The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No names had been released by police. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office's serious collision response team was called to the scene and was assisting Ewing police with the investigation. Anyone with information about …
Police & Fire
Search For Missing Person Ends Tragically Near NJ Mountain
The search for a missing person ended tragically when their body was found near a New Jersey mountain, authorities said. The person, whose name is being withheld, was last seen on Friday, Aug. 18, according to Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough police. Their personal car was found unoccupied in the parking lot of Baldpate Mountain. A search was launched immediately. The victim's body was found and no foul play was suspected. Assisting agencies included the Mercer County Prosecutors Office, Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, West Windsor Police Department, Lawrence Township Police D…
Police & Fire
South Jersey Ex-Con Gets 25 Years Without Parole For Drug, Weapons Convictions: Feds
A Trenton-area ex-con who served time for drug and weapons convictions is headed to federal prison for 25 years. Timothy “Young Money” Wimbush, 33, will have to serve out just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Wimbush rejected a plea offer from the government after he was caught armed and dealing during a gun war in Trenton. Taking his chances with a jury, he was convicted in October 2021 of selling and conspiring to sell heroin and possessing a firearm and ammo as a convicted felon. That led to a 300-month prison sentence handed down by…
Police & Fire
3-Year-Old Child Fatally Shoots Self In Trenton: Prosecutor
A three-year-old child accidentally shot themself to death in Trenton, authorities said. The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Task Force responded to Princeton Avenue on a report of a child suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a county prosecutor. The child has been pronounced dead by Capital Health Hospital. The firearm was recovered. The investigation is ongoing.
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Football Star, 24, Dies Of Injuries From Trenton Shooting: Prosecutor
A 24-year-old man from Mercer County died of injuries suffered in a shooting in Trenton earlier this month, authorities said. Justin Prescott Reed, of Ewing, died on May 22, as a result of injuries he sustained in the May 14 shooting on Brunswick Avenue, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said on Wednesday, May 31. No arrests had been made in the shooting as of press time, authorities said. Reed was a star football player at Ewing High School. He later played football at Delaware Valley University, Monroe College and Mercer Community College, his obituary said. He enjoyed eat…
Police & Fire
Bloods Leader Killed In Trenton Shooting, Authorities Say
A reputed leader of the Bloods street gang was shot and killed in Trenton, authorities said. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton police are investigating the fatal shooting on Friday, May 26, police said. Sharief Treadwell, 36, a self-described ‘four-star general” of the Trenton Gangsta Killa Bloods sect, died after being shot near Oakland and Hoffman streets, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. The shooting came the same day it was announced that another Bloods leader had been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyree "Hellboy" Thomas,…
Police & Fire
Park Ranger Billed Mercer County 298 Hours Of Work While At Home: Prosecutor
A park ranger from Mercer County spent about 298 hours at home when he said he was at work, a complaint shows. James J. Romano III falsified 64 patrol logs between July 27, 2002, and Jan. 17, 2023, which totaled 298.5 hours and $5,728 in stolen wages, according to the criminal complaint filed by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. Romano III, 34, of Hamilton, was charged in March with official misconduct, tampering with public records and theft by deception, according to the complaint.
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Detective Found Justified In Shooting NJ Man Now Paralyzed For Life
A Mercer County Grand Jury found that police use of force was justified in the February 2022 shooting of a 29-year-old Trenton man that left him paralyzed, authorities announced. Jajuan Henderson had been accused of ramming a police car and other vehicles in an alleged attempt to flee from police on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, before Trenton Det. Michael Gettler opened fire, according to a release from the Union County Prosecutor's Office. The UCPO handled the investigation due to a conflict between Trenton police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. The incident unfolded on Centre Str…
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Man Kills Ex-GF, Wounds Son In Trenton Murder-Suicide: Prosecutor
A 41-year-old woman was killed by her ex-boyfriend who then turned the gun on himself over the weekend in Trenton, authorities said. Nyeisha Saunders was shot by Antione Brown, 46, on the 100 block of Pennington Avenue around 6:35 p.m. Sunday, March 26, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said. Saunders' 19-year-old son was struck by gunfire and wounded in his hand, authorities said. Saunders was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead a short time later, the prosecutor said. While at the scene, police learned from a concerned citizen that a shooting sus…
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