Partly Cloudy 72°
Tag:

Hillsborough Police

Police & Fire
Philadelphia Man Arrested In 100-Person NJ Street Takeover: Police Philadelphia Man Arrested In 100-Person NJ Street Takeover: Police
Philadelphia Man Arrested In 100-Person NJ Street Takeover: Police Four young men have been arrested in a pair of street takeovers in Somerset County this fall. Michael Patrick Steiner, 21, of Sayreville; David Panevsky, 24, of North Middletown; Dmytrius Bell, 20, of Hillsborough; and Jake Cossrow, 18, of Philadelphia, PA, are facing charges in the gatherings on Sept. 10 and Oct. 14, Hillsborough Police Chief Mike McMahon said. In the first incident, more than 100 people gathered at Willow and Hillsborough roads around 1 a.m., watching as vehicles did donuts and burnouts, McMahon said. The crowd refused to immediately disperse, and numerous peop…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
News
AG: Somerset County Man Shot By Police Came At Them With Large Knife AG: Somerset County Man Shot By Police Came At Them With Large Knife
AG: Somerset County Man Shot By Police Came At Them With Large Knife A man shot and killed by local police in Somerset County came at officers with a large knife, New Jersey's top law enforcement official said Wednesday. Joshua Mathis 19, confronted Hillsborough police who responded to a report of a man with a gun at an apartment on Corporal Langon Way shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Mathis "was holding a large knife" and "advanced toward the officers with the knife" in the apartment, Bruck said. An officer fired his service weapon, stopping Mathis, he said. Police and EMS workers rendered first aid bef…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco