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Police search for Woodbridge Provident Bank robber
WOODBRIDGE — A bank robbery suspect waited patiently in line for six minutes before he demanded a teller put money in an envelope, authorities said. The police are still on the hunt for the...
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N.J. Supreme Court rules DWI test laws must be explained in suspect's native...
The court found a man who only speaks Spanish did not understand a Plainfield officer's instructions about N.J.'s Breathalyzer laws APNew Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner speaks as...
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N.J. corrections officer is sentenced to prison for giving cell phones to...
WOODBRIDGE — A corrections officer at East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge was ordered today to spend three years in state prison for supplying two cell phones to an inmate who is a member of the...
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Suspended Bound Brook police chief, restaurant owner seek separate trials
BOUND BROOK — Attorneys in the pending official misconduct case against a suspended Bound Brook police chief, a restaurant owner and the business itself will argue next month over whether the parties...
View ArticleRetired East Orange police officer is carjacked at gunpoint in Newark
NEWARK — A retired East Orange police officer was carjacked this afternoon in Newark after firing his gun at three suspects who he had spotted trying to rob someone, authorities said. One of the...
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Elizabeth man in stable condition after shooting
NEWARK — A 19-year-old Elizabeth man has been listed in stable condition at University Hospital in Newark after he was shot in the torso near his home on Parker Road, authorities said. Police arrived...
View ArticleBernards man is accused of kidnapping, sexual assaults
UNION COUNTY — A Bernards Township man was arrested and charged with kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault in connection with two separate incidents involving two different victims, authorities...
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N.J. man is sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for human trafficking,...
Lassissi Afolabi must also repay $3.9M to his victims, who were forced to work at hair salons without pay William Perlman/The Star-LedgerThis is the bedroom where some of the victims of suspects...
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N.J. man is sentenced to 25 years in prison for burglaries in Middlesex,...
A man with a lengthy history of committing burglaries was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for breaking into 11 businesses in five Middlesex County towns and one municipality in Somerset County....
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Honduran man is arrested for alleged Bernardsville home burglary, attack
BERNARDSVILLE — A Bedminster man was arrested today after he broke into the home of an acquaintance in Bernardsville and threatened to kill the woman and her friend, authorities said. Elvin Hernandez,...
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Evidence in misconduct probe not allowed in raid case against Bound Brook...
BOUND BROOK — When a suspended Bound Brook police chief goes to trial for allegations of misconduct, the state will be precluded from using certain evidence against him, a Superior Court judge ruled...
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Neptune man is convicted of killing 3 friends while drag-racing
NEPTUNE — A jury in Monmouth County today convicted a Neptune man of killing three friends while drag-racing down a township street three years ago. The same jury that found Nelson Villanueva guilty...
View ArticleHamilton Twp. man is accused of sending threatening text messages to girlfriend
A Hamilton Township man has been charged with sending his girlfriend threatening text messages in which he described harming little girls, as well as coming up with a way to kill his girlfriend,...
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Investigation of Russian agent in Massachusetts led to FBI takedown of network
WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested 10 Russian secret agents on June 27 after learning weeks before that one of them, Donald Heathfield of Cambridge, Mass., would soon be traveling abroad with a college-age...
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Ramapough Indian gets year in prison for assaulting N.J. park ranger in Mahwah
MAHWAH — A judge has sentenced a Ramapough Indian to a year in jail for slamming a New Jersey park ranger against an ATV when she tried to arrest him for riding an ATV, according to a report on...
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Couple charged with attempted murder, carjacking in Hackensack
HACKENSACK — A police officer stopped and arrested a couple Sunday who had allegedly bound a woman and left her in a park after stealing her car in the city, according to NorthJersey.com. The woman...
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N.J. man who won Supreme Court ruling over DWI test language rules remains in...
TRENTON — German Marquez made New Jersey legal history Monday. From his prison cell. The 27-year-old Plainfield man won a long legal battle against New Jersey Monday when the state Supreme Court ruled...
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U.S. detains 12th person in connection with Russian spy ring on immigration...
The U.S. has detained a 12th person in connection with the Russian spy ring, but the man is not being charged with a crime, four federal law enforcement officials said today. The officials said the...
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Atlantic City police determine Tropicana Casino fire caused by arson
ATLANTIC CITY — A fire which resulted in the evacuation of several guests and damage to three floors of the Tropicana Casino and Resort on Sunday was caused by arson, according to a report in the...
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Police find man, woman dead in Newark hotel
NEWARK — Officials are investigating the suspicious death of a man and a woman found dead in a Newark hotel room this morning, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. At about 9:15 a.m.,...
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