Police & Fire Top Stories
By TAPINTO STAFF
June 24, 2022
NEW JERSEY — Police chiefs from eight communities have nominated 14 sworn officers and two civilians as potential recipients for this year’s prestigious Valor Award from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police. “Each of this year’s nominees demonstrated exceptional service to their ...
CAMDEN, NJ — A 37-year-old man died hours after he was shot in his Whitman Park neighborhood, county Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Police Chief Gabe Rodriguez said in a prepared statement. Police officers, responding to an alert from the city’s gunfire-detection system, found Charles T.
CAMDEN, NJ — Police in Philadelphia and here are searching for a Camden man wanted in connection with last Sunday’s brutal assault of a transgender woman and the non-fatal double-shooting of her companions. Philadelphia police identified the suspect as Joel Martinez, 21, of High Street in ...
CAMDEN, NJ — A Burlington County grand jury has indicted a Camden resident for allegedly bilking $16,000 out of a worried Palmyra grandmother using a phony story about her grandson’s arrest, authorities said. Indicted on a third-degree deception charge is Yadiel Gonzalez, 25, of Atlantic Avenue ...
CAMDEN, NJ — A 28-year-old city man, wounded by gunfire in January, has died at a long-term acute care facility. His death has been ruled a homicide. Authorities say Andrew M. Ayala died on Saturday, reportedly due to complications from his severe injuries. His shooting was the city’s sixth ...
CAMDEN, NJ — A city man faces first-degree murder charges in a fatal May 17 shooting after he turned himself into authorities on Monday at the county Metro Police Department headquarters. Jason McAllister, 20, surrendered at the police department’s Federal Street headquarters at 4:50 p.m.
CAMDEN, NJ – A 36-year-old city man who surrendered to authorities on Friday is facing murder charges in connection with a shooting death on Thursday morning, according to county Prosecutor Grace MacAulay and Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez. Marquis Fletcher, 36, phoned the Camden office of the ...
CAMDEN, NJ — Tuesday night turned deadly with two men killed by gunfire in city street shootings, each as they sat in parked cars less than two miles apart. Authorities did not say if they believe these similar, execution-style shootings are potentially related. At 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, police ...
CAMDEN, NJ — Funeral services have been announced for a 22-year-old Camden County police officer who died in a tragic off-duty motorcycle accident last week in Cherry Hill. Also, the county police Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge 218 has posted a GoFundMe page to benefit the family of ...
CAMDEN, NJ — Police have charged two city men with first-degree murder in connection with Saturday’s slaying of 18-year-old Yahmir Catoe, in what authorities believe was a botched robbery. Charged with first-degree murder are Mihkael Greene, 19, and his alleged accomplice, Nysar Streater, 21, ...
CAMDEN, NJ — Police have arrested a 20-year-old woman in connection with a suspicious three-alarm Mother’s Day fire at an East Camden apartment complex that left 22 tenants homeless. County Metro police have charged Nakyah Barnes-Nelson with second-degree aggravated arson, two counts of causing ...
CAMDEN, NJ — An 18-year-old city man is dead, another remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a deadly Saturday morning incident on Lakeshore Drive, county Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez said. Police officers, responding to reports of gunfire, found badly ...
CAMDEN, NJ — The off-duty death of a 22-year-old Camden County police officer in a motorcycle accident has stunned and saddened his fellow officers, his police chief and many community leaders. Officer Daniel B. Adler died after his motorcycle apparently collided with a car at 6:30 p.m.
CAMDEN, NJ – Captain Edward W. Cobbs Jr., is now the new chief of the Camden-based Delaware River Port Authority’s police department. A 28-year law enforcement veteran, Cobbs took his oath-of-office during a ceremony at the Port Authority’s headquarters in Camden on Friday. He replaces Chief ...
CAMDEN, NJ – A city man will be arraigned today in Superior Court on a manslaughter charge for allegedly throwing a fatal punch that caused the death of another man during a March 11 parking dispute. U.S. Marshals tracked and arrested 35-year-old Troy Leary during a traffic stop on Monday night, ...
CAMDEN, NJ – U.S. Marshals tracked a 20-year-old Camden man to Delaware where he was arrested for murder in connection with the April 22 shooting death of a man in Lindenwold. Trayshawn Simpson, arrested in New Castle, Delaware on Wednesday, is awaiting extradition to New Jersey where he faces ...
CAMDEN, NJ – Police continue a manhunt today for a gunman who killed one person and injured two others in a daylight city street shooting on Thursday, said county Prosecutor Grace MacAulay and Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez in a prepared statement. Responding to gunfire reports at Thurman and ...
CAMDEN, NJ – Police continue to search today for a gunman who shot a 20-year-old man in the back early Thursday morning in the city’s Morgan Village section. Officers found the wounded man at 2:45 a.m. Thursday after they were dispatched to Crestbury Apartments, 2553 South 8th St., for reports ...
CAMDEN, NJ — A federal grand jury in Philadelphia has indicted a Camden man for posing as a vehicle buyer on social media, then allegedly using a handgun to carjack two SUVs from the owners. Indicted is Sean M. Allen, 23, of Camden, who faces two armed carjacking charges, plus charges of ...