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Camden Driver Charged In Fatal Hit-Run Crash In Central Jersey: Prosecutor
A 24-year-old man from Camden has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash, authorities said. Giovanni Gaines-Little also was charged Monday, Jan. 29, with obstruction, hindering, witness tampering and driving without a license, among other charges, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Raymond Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department On Feb. 25, 2023, at approximately 10 p.m., police responded to the intersection of Route 130 and Route 32 following the report of a crash. Police found Ke…
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3 Rutgers Students Sexually Attacked By New Brunswick Man: Police
A New Brunswick man has been arrested n a string of sexual attacks at Rutgers University, authorities said. Jose Paulino II, 32, carried out multiple sexual attacks on three Rutgers students on Monday, Oct. 30 and Tuesday, Oct. 31, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. Paulino is accused of inappropriately touching and harassing two female students on Monday, who separately reported the incidents, Ciccone said alongside New Brunswick Director Anthony Caputo and Rutgers Police Chief Kenneth Cop. On Halloween night, a third female Rutgers student said a man t…
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Police Release IDs Of Parents, 2 Children Found Dead In NJ Quadruple Murder
Authorities have released the names of the four people found dead in a New Jersey home Wednesday, Oct. 4. Tej Pratap Singh, 43, Sonal Parihar, 42, and their two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl, were found lifeless in a Titus Lane home in Plainsboro during a welfare check Wednesday afternoon, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Plainsboro Police Chief Eamon Blanchard said. A spokesperson for the prosecutor's office said only that the incident was "not a shooting," and the cause of deaths have yet to be determined by the medical examiner. It is, however, be…
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'Not A Shooting': Four Bodies Found In NJ Home Probed As Homicide: Prosecutor
Four people were found dead in a New Jersey home Wednesday, Oct. 4, authorities said. The discovery of four bodies in a Titus Lane home in Plainsboro is being investigated as a homicide case, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Plainsboro Police Chief Eamon Blanchard said. A spokesperson for the prosecutor's office said that this was "not a shooting incident" and the cause of deaths have yet to be determined by the medical examiner. Police were called to the home around 4:40 p.m. for a welfare check when they found the four bodies, Blanchard and Ciccone said. An initial i…
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'Covered In Blood': Charges Upgraded For Man Who Killed His Mom In Gruesome NJ Attack
Charges have been upgraded for a 44-year-old Central Jersey man whose mother died a week after a gruesome attack, police said. Herbert Roberts, of Plainsboro, is believed to have attacked his 73-year-old mom, Beverly Roberts, of Princeton Junction, the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 18, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. Beverly was flown to Newark University Hospital after she was found covered in blood with severe injuries to her head and eyes, Ciccone said alongside Chief Eamon Blanchard of the Plainsboro Police Department. Herbert was arrested at the scene and …
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Pair Sentenced In 100 MPH Edison Street Race Crash That Killed US Army Hopeful
A pair of men from Central New Jersey were sentenced in connection with a fatal street race, authorities said. Daniel Girgis, 18, of Dayton was sentenced to three years in New Jersey State Prison and Tyler Dickerson, 19, of Monmouth Junction, was sentenced to one year in the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center for the crime, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone. Diana Somarriba, 18, of South Brunswick, was a passenger in Girgis' vehicle at the time of the Route 1 and Fox Road crash on Jan. 20, 2022. When police arrived at the scene, they found two v…
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Rutgers University Student Committed Suicide: Prosecutor
Authorities are investigating after the body of a male student was found on the Rutgers University Campus in Piscataway. The death was ruled a suicide, they said. There was no threat to the public and no foul play was suspected, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Kenneth Cop of the Rutgers Police Department. The discovery was made around 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 27 on Busch Campus, police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Sergeant Calvert of the Rutgers Police Department at 732-932-7211 or Detective Michelle Coppola …
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Central Jersey Man Charged In Fatal Hit-Run Crash
A man from Middlesex County has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash Thursday, Feb. 16, authorities said. Nageswar Polamuri, 42, of Iselin, fled the scene but was eventually located, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Captain Warren Morrison of the Piscataway Police Department. Polamuri was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash, they said. Polamuri allegedly was driving in the wrong direction when he crashed head-on into a car driven by Max Spivak, 21, of Old Bridge at about 1 a.m. Thursday, they sa…
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Police ID Victim, Car Thief In Central Jersey Pursuit-Crash That Left Innocent Bystander Dead
Authorities have charged two people and identified the innocent victim killed by car thieves during a wild police pursuit in Old Bridge on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Samuel Villar, 19, of Somerset, was using the vehicle stolen last month to burglarize cars in Marlboro when police began to pursue the car around 2:15 a.m. up Route 9, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Old Bridge Acting Police Chief Donald F. Fritz, Jr. said. Villar ended up crashing the vehicle near the Spring Valley Road intersection, killing Arturo Tlapa Luna, 33, of Freehold, who was in his vehicle with other mem…
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Central Jersey Woman Slain Months After Husband's Death
A 65-year-old woman was slain over the weekend — just more than three months after the death of her husband, according to authorities and news reports. Deborah Brown-Hepworth was found unresponsive in her Hanna Lane home in Old Bridge by a relative on Saturday, Sept. 17 around 11:05 a.m., according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Acting Chief Donald Fritz, Jr., of the Old Bridge Police Department Brown-Hepworth, affectionately known as Sonni, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, Harry, died on June 4, 2022. Authorities said only that the cas…
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Central Jersey Child Porn Manufacturer Had More Than 1,000 Files: Prosecutor
A 21-year-old Central Jersey man was arrested on child porn charges, authorities said. Kevin Roman-Quinones, of Perth Amboy, had more than 1,000 child pornography files, some of which he manufactured, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. He was arrested Thursday, June 30, and charged with second-degree possession of child pornography (over 1000 files), and first-degree manufacturing child pornography. Roman-Quinones was lodged at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center pending a pre-trial detention hearing in Superior Court. The investigation is active an…
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2 Killed, 2 Critically Hurt When Car Strikes Tree On Route 1 In Edison: Prosecutor
Two people were killed, and two others were critically hurt, when their vehicle struck a tree in Central Jersey, authorities said. On Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 10:17 p.m., Edison police responded to Route 1 at Jeff Street for a crash, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan. Police found a vehicle with four occupants had struck a tree, they said. The driver of the vehicle, Ziyad Elsaedi, 21, of North Plainfield, and the front passenger of the vehicle, were transported to a nearby hospital along with two other critical…
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GoFundMe For NJ Mom Accused Of Killing Kids In Crash Taken Down
The New Jersey mom accused of causing a wrong-way Thanksgiving police car crash that killed her 9-year-old son and his cousin "loved the kids more than anything," despite the charges that she faces, her mother said on a GoFundMe page. UPDATE: The GoFundMe page had been taken down as of 4:45 p.m., and had raised nearly $4,000 as of 3:45 p.m. Yokauri Batista-Alcantara, 31, of New Brunswick, was charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the accident, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and North Brunswick Police Chief Joseph Battaglia. Alcohol was …