Law & Justice Top Stories
By LEON FOOKSMAN
February 22, 2025
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A late-night traffic stop on Sample Road in Coconut Creek led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man who tried to flee police on a stolen moped with altered colors and mismatched tags.Izett Roy Scott III was pulled over on Feb. 15, after an officer noticed his black moped had a ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office has posted an official notice regarding "post-conviction relief" for residents who took a DWI test using the Alcotest 7110 breath sample instrument. Post-conviction relief is a process that allows people convicted of crimes to ...
Somers, N.Y. – Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP, one of New York’s premier elder law firms, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Somers, N.Y. This expansion further strengthens the firm’s presence in the community, where it has served clients from a home office for three ...
ROXBURY, NJ - An Irvington woman who was involved in a robbery and shooting at the Roxbury Motel in 2023 was sentenced today (Feb. 21) to 12 years in state prison, according to authorities.The woman, Auraceli Maldonado, 25, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Ralph Amirata. Maldonado ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs teacher allegedly made sexually suggestive comments to a student before being arrested this week and charged with using his position of authority to engage in an inappropriate relationship. According to the arrest report, Lem McKinney, 40, a social sciences ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs teacher allegedly made sexually suggestive comments to a student before being arrested this week and charged with using his position of authority to engage in an inappropriate relationship. According to the arrest report, Lem McKinney, 40, a social sciences ...
FLEMINGTON, NJ - Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson and High Bridge Police Chief Brett Bartman announced on February 19, 2025, that a joint investigation by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s Narcotics Task Force and the High Bridge Police Department led to the arrest of Gary ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office has posted an official notice regarding "post-conviction relief" for residents who took a DWI test using the Alcotest 7110 breath sample instrument. Post-conviction relief is a process that allows people convicted of crimes to ...
FAIR LAWN, NJ - A 23-year-old local man was charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the Bergen County Prosecutor said.An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Oradell Police Department revealed Gerald A. Picado, 23, of Fair Lawn, sexually ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office has posted an official notice regarding "post-conviction relief" for residents who took a DWI test using the Alcotest 7110 breath sample instrument. Post-conviction relief is a process that allows people convicted of crimes to ...
CAMDEN – The man who shot Nuquan Reddick of Camden seven times outside a city corner store in 2018 will spend his life in prison after a Camden County jury returned a guilty verdict, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office announced Thursday. Reddick died two months later.Shomari Kinard, 44, was ...
TAMARAC, FL — The four-year-old girl who witnessed her father, Nathan Gingles, kill her grandfather, mother and a neighbor on Sunday told Broward Sheriff’s deputies that after he killed “grandpa,” she watched him chase her mother down the street. Seraphine Gingles told the deputies she was sitting ...
PATERSON, NJ - A joint investigation by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Postal Police led to the arrest of Werling Santiago Tejada-Jimenez, of Reading, Pennsylvania, who was charged with multiple narcotics offenses after reportedly attempting to retrieve a parcel containing two ...
TAMARAC, FL — The four-year-old girl who witnessed her father, Nathan Gingles, kill her grandfather, mother and a neighbor on Sunday told Broward Sheriff’s deputies that after he killed “grandpa,” she watched him chase her mother down the street. Seraphine Gingles told the deputies she was sitting ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ - A group of drug dealers were using a Jersey City storefront to conceal and sell narcotics, according to a statement from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office.In a statement, investigators said that the arrests of the five suspects came after a February 5 search of Kaelyn Deli and ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
EDISON, NJ — A former Edison Township public works employee has filed a civil lawsuit, claiming the town owes him thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime wages that reportedly datie back to 2017.On behalf of Sayreville resident Dwayne Mayers, Bergen County attorney Brandon J. Broderick, filed a ...
FLEMINGTON, NJ - A Flemington man was awarded a $2 million settlement after suffering catastrophic spinal injuries due to a fall at a commercial property in Flemington in April 2020, according to a release.Michael Hutnick, a retiree, was secured the settlement by Stark & Stark Shareholder ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
HACKENSACK, NJ - Eleven members of the Paterson-based neighborhood street gang known as “100k” were indicted for their roles in a violent racketeering conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna recently announced. One of the members is a resident of Hackensack.The Indictment charges Jasun Allah, ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A father picking up his son from Coconut Creek High School was recently arrested after allegedly driving under the influence and crashing into a fence, causing about $10,000 in damage to his car and school property, according to police. Coconut Creek police responded to a report ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Belleville man, whose drunken and reckless driving resulted in a fatal crash in Roxbury last year, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to authorities.The man, Gerald Veneziano, 41, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Robert Hanna in Morristown. Veneziano ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A father picking up his son from Coconut Creek High School was recently arrested after allegedly driving under the influence and crashing into a fence, causing about $10,000 in damage to his car and school property, according to police. Coconut Creek police responded to a report ...
HACKENSACK, NJ - A 64-year-old woman transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to herself from her Bergen County job over the course of more than two years, the Bergen County Prosecutor said.Elena Currie, 64, of Hackensack, allegedly stole $451,000 from her Bergen County employer from July 2021 ...
TAMARAC, FL – The man at the center of a statewide Amber Alert out of Tamarac on Sunday is now facing charges for the killing of three people, including his daughter’s mother and grandfather.Nathan Gingles, 43, who was violating a court order prohibiting contact with his daughter and her mother, ...
TAMARAC, FL – The man at the center of a statewide Amber Alert out of Tamarac on Sunday is now facing charges for the killing of three people, including his daughter’s mother and grandfather.Nathan Gingles, 43, who was violating a court order prohibiting contact with his daughter and her mother, ...
EDISON, NJ - The Edison Board of Education recently settled five cases of sexual abuse of students by a high school teacher in the 1980s for a combined total of $8.9 million. To date, seven of the nine cases against the board of education have been settled for a sum total of $14,150,000, according ...