Law & Justice

JERSEY CITY, NJ - A 16-year-old male has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 21-year-old Rodney Wallace who was fatally shot on Wilkinson Avenue in Jersey City on April 13.

The teen, who has been charged as a juvenile, was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Gang Intelligence/Violent Crimes Unit inside a store at 245 ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Calling Governor Phil Murphy's announcement that Edna Mahan Correctional Facility will be closed “welcomed news for all of us who were deeply concerned about the culture of abuse and the deplorable environment the inmates have had to endure,” Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Hudson) added that “the task now is to ensure these women are provided a safe ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ — Although State Sen. Sandra Cunningham did not appear at her first virtual court hearing last week, a plea of not guilty was submitted on her behalf by her attorney Michael Rubas. Rubas said Cunningham would want to be tried in person if the case were to go to trial.

Cunningham has been charged with driving while intoxicated and careless driving resulting in the ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The internal affairs unit of the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office is focusing on five detectives who may be the subject of a pending investigation, according to a letter issued on May 26 to defense attorney Michael Rubas – who apparently has a client charged in a narcotics case.

Under federal law, the prosecutor must notify an attorney if any of those investigators ...

CLINTON, NJ - Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday his plan to close the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, the state's only women's correctional facility, following an investigation into a violent attack on prisoners in January.

Murphy's administration released an investigative report Monday that was prepared by former state comptroller Matt Boxer and law firm Lowenstein ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The second suspect in the shooting death of Emmanuel Garcia was arrested in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced.

According to Suarez, Omire Rios-William, 19, was apprehended without incident at a home just before 2:00 p.m. Members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force, the Allentown Police Department, and ...

NEWARK, NJ - A Jersey City man that admitted to using a fake passport to defraud four banks out of $450,000 faces up to 30 years in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

Mamadou Diallo, 44, pleaded guilty in the scheme in which, between June 2012 and December 2018, he and others created false passports from various West African countries by affixing their own pictures onto ...

NEW JERSEY- Now that state lawmakers have passed measures to create a marketplace for recreational marijuana in New Jersey, the big challenge for local police departments is how to enforce these new regulations and to educate people about the seismic shift in thinking.

Sayreville Police Chief John Zebrowski, who is also the incoming president of the New Jersey State Association ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a second suspect wanted in connection with the death of 23-year-old Emmanuel Garcia, who was shot on Princeton Avenue and Brown Place on May 3, 2021. 

Omire Rios-Williams, 19, Jersey City, has been charged with Murder, Attempted Murder in, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Possession of ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - A 21-year-old Jersey City woman has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of Emmanuel Garcia, 23.

According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, Shainne Payne-Nanton was apprehended and arrested by HCPO Homicide Unit detectives following a motor vehicle stop at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Thursday

As previously reported, on the day of the incident ...