Law & Justice Top Stories
By TONY GALLOTTO
February 17, 2025
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey teenagers who get busted for underage gambling may face stiff fines – but not criminal prosecution – under a proposed law that’s working its way through the state legislature.The NJ Assembly voted last week to advance a proposal, A5086, to decriminalize underage gambling ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Local activists and civil rights groups are mobilizing for a large-scale protest against the Trump administration’s policies on Monday, February 17, in Washington, D.C., says organizers.Montclair resident Lawrence Hamm and his organization, the People’s Organization for Progress ...
CRANFORD, NJ - Craig and Lisa Manders left Cranford last May and flew to Zambia for a ten-day safari. Halfway through their trip, they went on a guided “bush walk” along a riverbank in the Lower Zambezi National Park, where a hippopotamus was lounging in the water. The armed guides left the group ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A “spit mask” was used to restrain a man who attacked police officers while being arrested for stealing his brother-in-law’s car early Wednesday morning.Francis Doristin, 36, was taken into custody on Feb. 5 after a chaotic series of events that ended at a Chevron gas station in ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, of Colts Neck was charged on February 13, 2025 after an investigation revealed that he directed a laser at a ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, of Colts Neck was charged on February 13, 2025 after an investigation revealed that he directed a laser at a ...
ELIZABETH, NJ - A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges against an Elizabeth police officer in connection with a 2023 deadly collision that killed two people.The Office of Public Integrity and Accountability investigated the deaths of 54-year-old Carlos Alvear and 63-year-old ...
NEWARK, NJ - Monishkumar Kirankumar Doshi Shah, also known as Monish Doshi Shah, a 39-year-old resident of Jersey City and Mumbai, India, was sentenced 30 months in prison last month in connection with a scheme that illegally evaded more than $13.5 million in customs duties on jewelry imports into ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — A Coral Springs resident and his passengers have filed a lawsuit against the city of Coconut Creek, seeking more than $100,000 in damages following a minor traffic collision involving a Coconut Creek police vehicle.The crash occurred on January 22, 2024, at around 5:40 p.m. in ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Hillside man will spend more than three decades in prison for a 2021 murder. Justin Couram, 23, was sentenced to 35 years behind bars for the murder of Quamir Nelson, Essex County prosecutors announced Friday. Nelson was shot in killed in Newark on December 30, 2021, while sitting in a car on ...
TRENTON, NJ - Authorities seized approximately $32,000 worth of heroin and arrested a Teaneck man following a two-month investigation into fentanyl and heroin distribution in Mercer County, Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta Marbrey announced.According to a statement, Edwin Vargas, 52, was taken into ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ - Scott Morley, age 49, of Parsippany Troy-Hills has been sentenced to 45 days in jail for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM), announced Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll, Chief of Detectives Robert McNally, and Butler Police Chief Scott Ricker. Morley was a ...
CRANFORD, NJ - Craig and Lisa Manders left Cranford last May and flew to Zambia for a ten-day safari. Halfway through their trip, they went on a guided “bush walk” along a riverbank in the Lower Zambezi National Park, where a hippopotamus was lounging in the water. The armed guides left the group ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, was charged on February 13, 2025, after an investigation revealed that he ...
CRANFORD, NJ - Craig and Lisa Manders left Cranford last May and flew to Zambia for a ten-day safari. Halfway through their trip, they went on a guided “bush walk” along a riverbank in the Lower Zambezi National Park, where a hippopotamus was lounging in the water. The armed guides left the group ...
FLEMINGTON – The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners took the first step Jan. 21 to convert space at the county justice center into a new courtroom.The board introduced a $1.2 million bond ordinance to convert the existing law library into a space for a separate chancery courtroom, said county ...
PATERSON, NJ - The Paterson City Council recently honored Passaic County Undersheriff Humberto Cuadrado on his retirement, recognizing his decades of service in law enforcement. Cuadrado, who served 27 years with the Paterson Police Department—including 22 years in major crimes—reflected on his ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, was charged on February 13, 2025, after an investigation revealed that he ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, was charged on February 13, 2025, after an investigation revealed that he ...
NEW JERSEY — A Monmouth County man was charged this week with aiming the beam of a laser at a federal law enforcement aircraft, a serious offense under U.S. federal law. James M. Pedone, 27, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, was charged on February 13, 2025, after an investigation revealed that he ...
MORRIS COUNTY, NJ – Victor Peters, 45, of Parsippany-Troy Hills, has been charged with second-degree Reckless Vehicular Homicide following a fatal crash on Route 80 in Rockaway Township, authorities announced.Morris County First Assistant Prosecutor Maggie Calderwood and Chief of Detectives Robert ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Suzanne Sicora-Ludwig, who has served on the City Council since 2017, has pleaded guilty to a DWI charge stemming from a 2024 incident in which she crashed her 2014 Range Rover into a tree on Edgebrook Road.She will be required to utilize an ignition interlock device – a ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs home was raided by police, leading to the arrest of a 20-year-old woman after officers discovered a stolen gun and illegal drugs inside, a police report said. Kayden Williams was taken into custody on Feb. 6 after Coral Springs Police Department's Vice, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Millburn’s Special Litigation Attorney, William W. Northgrave of McManimon Scotland Baumann, sent a letter to Judge Aldo Russo in opposition to the proposed order submitted under the five-day rule by Intervenor-Defendant RPM Development Group, LLC.Northgrave reported, “RPM submitted ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A police pursuit that began in Coral Springs later ended in Fort Lauderdale, where two men were arrested after attempting to evade officers by hiding in a yacht marina.According to police reports, on Jan. 30, officers stopped a silver Mercedes-Benz for driving 75 mph in a 40-mph ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – Victor Peters, 45, of Parsippany-Troy Hills, has been charged with second-degree Reckless Vehicular Homicide following a fatal crash on Route 80 in Rockaway Township, authorities announced.Morris County First Assistant Prosecutor Maggie Calderwood and Chief of Detectives Robert ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A police pursuit that began in Coral Springs later ended in Fort Lauderdale, where two men were arrested after attempting to evade officers by hiding in a yacht marina.According to police reports, on Jan. 30, officers stopped a silver Mercedes-Benz for driving 75 mph in a 40-mph ...
NEWARK, NJ — An Amtrak employee from Elizabeth could spend a decade in prison after he admitted participating in an $11 million health care fraud scheme to defraud Amtrak.Anthony Saloka, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Newark to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.The scheme took ...