Law & Justice Top Stories
By MATT KADOSH
June 12, 2024
NEWARK — Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday and spoke against the clearing of their 40-day-long encampment at Rutgers University’s New Street Plaza. The Newark Solidarity Coalition organizers, who had demanded that the university divest from Israel amid ...
NEWARK, NJ - A pair of area men have admitted their involvement in a string of armed robberies of gas stations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Wendell Bradley Jr., 27, Bayonne, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark federal court to one count of ...
CAMDEN – A state Superior Court jury in Camden County last Thursday convicted a Burlington City man in the 2021 shooting death of 29-year-old Takwail Bailey of Camden, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office reported on Wednesday. Lesure Funari, 25, was found guilty of first-degree murder, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - A teacher at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek was recently arrested for allegedly grabbing a student by the ear and slamming his head against a desk, according to a police report. Coconut Creek police arrested Christopher Cagle, 64, a science teacher, on May 30 and ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - Two Jersey City men are among four that were arrested recently as part of “Operation Cruel Summer,” a multi-agency undercover operation targeting people who allegedly were using social media in an attempt to lure underage children for sexual activity. According to a press ...
NEWARK, NJ -- A Fairfield-based tax preparer was sentenced Wednesday to 57 months in prison for conspiring to obtain over $4.4 million by defrauding the IRS, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Omar Khater, 33, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti in Newark ...
MONROE, NJ — Jeralyn Lawrence has been named Professional Lawyer of the Year by the Commission on Professionalism in the Law and was nominated by the New Jersey State Bar Association. Jeralyn received the award at the Professional Awards Luncheon at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe, NJ. This event ...
MONROE, NJ — Jeralyn Lawrence has been named Professional Lawyer of the Year by the Commission on Professionalism in the Law and was nominated by the New Jersey State Bar Association. Jeralyn received the award at the Professional Awards Luncheon at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe, NJ. This event ...
MONROE, NJ — Jeralyn Lawrence has been named Professional Lawyer of the Year by the Commission on Professionalism in the Law and was nominated by the New Jersey State Bar Association. Jeralyn received the award at the Professional Awards Luncheon at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe, NJ. This event ...
PATERSON, NJ – A North Carolina man was arrested on June 7 for interference with custody, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes, Paterson Police Department Officer-In-Charge Isa Abbassi, and United States Marshal Juan Mattos announced. According to a statement, on May 28, members of the ...
NEWARK, NJ – Two Jersey City men have been charged for their involvement in a neighborhood street gang that distributed cocaine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced earlier this week.. Anthony Phillips, 31, also known as "Ant" or "Little Ant," and Shannon Tisdale, 32, known as ...
NEWTON, NJ – A bus driver for the Wallkill Valley Regional High School and Franklin Elementary School was sentenced to 14-years in prison for having driven a bus of students while drunk, according to acting Sussex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray. Colleen Eutermarks, 52 of Wantage was ...
HANOVER TOWNSHIP, NJ - Hanover Township's former Municipal Judge and Prosecutor, Brian R. O'Toole passed away on June 2nd. His obituary and funeral arrangements are listed below: Brian R. O'Toole, 77, of Whippany, NJ, passed away on June 2, 2024. Visiting hours will be held at ...
Orange, NJ- Three men from Newark were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their role in a January 2024 gunpoint robbery of a pharmacy in Orange, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Reginald Ware, 54, Nyiron Williams, 22, and Jamon Crosby, 35, are charged in a ...