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Road Strewn with Hand Sanitizer Bottles in Wake of Jersey Avenue Fire
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New Brunswick, Rutgers, Other Police Departments to Participate in Job Fair
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New Brunswick Man Facing Attempted Murder Charges in Connection with Shooting
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Highland Park Man Charged With Vandalizing Mural
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Two Highland Park Residents Charged in Hit and Run Death of New Brunswick Woman
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New Brunswick Man Found Asleep At The Wheel Charged With DWI: Hoboken PD
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
May 11, 2022NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – No one was hurt when a fire broke out at a transfer station on Tuesday, but hundreds of individual-size bottles of hand sanitizer were left strewn along Jersey Avenue in its wake.
It took firefighters about three hours to control the fire that started at Solterra Recycling Solutions at 986 Jersey Ave. at about 3:45 p.m., according to the New Brunswick Fire ...
EDISON, NJ – Each municipal police department in Middlesex County, plus several other law enforcement groups and departments on a county and national level, will be represented at a career fair Tuesday, May 24.
Representatives from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the State Police, Rutgers University, Middlesex College and the Middlesex County Department of Corrections ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – A 45-year-old city man is facing attempted murder and other charges in connection with a shooting incident last month.
Almein Archer is also facing aggravated assault and weapons charges for a shooting that occurred on April 30, according to a press release from New Brunswick Police Department Deputy Director J.T. Miller.
Police said Archer was arrested May 5 at ...
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ – A borough man has been charged in connection with vandalizing a mural depicting refugees and immigrants in the community.
Thomas Santo, 54, has been charged with bias intimidation and criminal mischief for what police said is the actual physical defacement of the mural.
According to a statement from Highland Park Police Chief Rick Abrams, Santo vandalized the mural ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – A 50-year-old city woman suffered non-life-threatening wounds after being shot early this morning.
Police responded to a report of a shooting on Saturday, April 30 at about 1:30 a.m. at a residence on the 100 block of Comstock Street, according to statement posted on New Brunswick’s official Facebook page.
Officers found a female resident who had allegedly ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ -- After Michelle Lodzinski reported that her five-year-old son Timothy Wiltsey vanished from a Sayreville carnival in 1991, detectives embarked on a decades-long investigation until a family member identifies a key piece of evidence pointing to a potential suspect.
An all-new episode of Dateline NBC set to air on Friday, April 29, at 9 p.m., ...
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (SOMERSET), NJ – Two Highland Park residents have been charged in connection with the February hit-and-run death of a New Brunswick woman, according to authorities.
Raulito Peralta, 22, has been charged with second-degree leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident, third-degree causing death or injury while driving with a suspended license or unlicensed, and ...
HOBOKEN, NJ — A 26-year-old New Brunswick man is facing charges after police say they found him passed out behind the wheel of a car parked on a sidewalk early Sunday morning in Hoboken.
Around 2:40 a.m., Police Officer Bianca Arroyo and Police Officer Nicholas Protopapadakis were dispatched to 106 1st Street on a report of a motor vehicle partially on the sidewalk, facing the wrong way ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating the theft of catalytic converters cut from vehicles parked at Douglass Campus in New Brunswick and Busch Campus in Piscataway.
Police said catalytic converters were stolen from vehicles parked in the following locations between April 7-19:
Lot 80 on the Douglass Campus near 49 Labor Center Way in New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Three New Brunswick men and one male juvenile are facing charges stemming from reported paintball gun attacks near Railroad Avenue and Feaster Park.
Angel Cruz and Jose Perez-Leyva, both 18, and Pedro Vasquez-Toribio, 19 have been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and criminal mischief, according to a press release from ...