March 8, 2024 HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)–The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office confirms that a Hamilton Township Police Officer was shot this evening while responding to a domestic violence call on Orchard Avenue around 10:00 p.m. One additional individual was also shot. The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office will be handling the investigation. The New Jersey…
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March 6, 2024 MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ (MIDDLESEX)–Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone, Chief Griffin M. Banos of the Monroe Township Police Department, and the New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Taxation’s Office of Criminal Investigation announced today that a long-time tax preparer was sentenced after pleading guilty to failure to file a tax return. In…
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March 7, 2024 ROBBINSVILLE, NJ (MERCER)–At 9:20 p.m. firefighters from Robbinsville and Hightstown responded to a vehicle on fire at mile post 64.5 south bound, inner roadway, on the New Jersey Turnpike. Firefighters arrived and quickly extinguished the fire. No other details are available.
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Charges Stem from “Operation Risky Business,” a Collaborative Investigation Led by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Division of Criminal Justice, New Jersey State Police, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations May 26, 2022 TRENTON, NJ (MERCER)–New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri today announced the arrests of 21…
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March 6, 2024 Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on March 4, 2024, Ryan Thompson, 35, of Trenton, pled guilty to Manslaughter before the Honorable Kimarie Rahill, J.S.C., in connection with the death of a 55-year-old male in Berkeley Township on September 29, 2023. At the time of Thompson’s sentencing on May 3,…
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March 6, 2024 Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone announced yesterday, that Marcus Wright, 27, of Beaufort, South Carolina was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of an Edison Speedway employee that occurred on December 20, 2018. On September 12, 2023, Wright was convicted of the murder of John Bertram, 38, of…
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March 6, 2024 TOMS RIVER, NJ (OCEAN)–Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced yesterday, that Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force collaborated with the Barnegat Township Police Department Crime Reduction Unit, United States Drug Enforcement Agency-Atlantic City Resident Office, Toms River Township Police Department Patrol Division and Street Crimes Unit, Brick…
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March 1, 2024 EWING TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)–A fire in the attached garage of a home on Holder Drive was contained and extinguished before it could spread to the rest of the residence this evening (Friday, March 1, 2024). Ewing firefighters, who were alerted to the blaze at 7:49 p.m., arrived to find flames in the…
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March 1, 2024 TOMS RIVER, NJ (OCEAN)–Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on March 1, 2024, Sherry Lee Heffernan, 57, of Landenberg, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of two counts of Murder in connection with the deaths of John Enders and Francoise Pitoy, following a nearly four week-long jury trial before the Honorable Kimarie…
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March 1, 2024 TOMS RIVER, NJ (OCEAN)–Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on March 1, 2024, Raphael Powell, 38, of Toms River, was sentenced by the Honorable Guy P. Ryan, P.J.Cr.P., to an aggregate term of 25 years New Jersey State Prison (NJSP), having previously been found guilty of Possession of a Weapon…
