A 77-year-old township man was injured February 10 when his car drove into an apartment building on Ari Drive, police said. Police received a 9-1-1 call about the accident at about 10:16 a.m., according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. Callers said there was an odor of gas around the building. The driver was taken to …

Police said a Milford man was shot and killed in the PSEG parking lot on Weston Canal Road the morning of February 8. A 51-year-old PSE&G employee was killed February 8 outside his car in the facility’s Weston Canal Road parking lot by a man who police said later took his own life in Bridgewater. Police said that Russell D. …

A 27-year-old Henry Street man was charged with sexual assault on January 25, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. The Prosecutor’s Office’s press release offered no indication as to why the arrest’s announcement was delayed by nearly two weeks. The alleged assault took place on June 19-20, 2022, according to the release. The victim told police that she had …

Franklin Township Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather speaking at the January 24 Township Council meeting. The death of a 29-year-old Memphis man, allegedly by five Memphis police officers, has “hurt us all,” Franklin Township Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather said in a statement released on January 27. In the lengthy statement, Maeweather expresses condolences for Tyre Nichols’ family and details …

So-called “porch pirates” – people who steal delivered packages from people’s porches – were busy in the township during the waning days of 2022, police said. Here are the reported cases, furnished by the Franklin Township Police Department: December 19 A Township resident was the victim of a package theft during the afternoon hours in the area of Sunflower Rd. …

There were a rash of car thefts and burglaries to autos in the township during the last two weeks of the year, according to police. Here are the incidents, as reported by police: December 18 A township resident’s vehicle was stolen while it was left running outside of an auto business on Somerset St. during the afternoon hours. Two black …

Three township residents were scammed out of a total of $31,000, as reported to police at the end of November and beginning of December. On November 30, a township woman reported that she was scammed out of $26,000 in what policed said was a cryptocurrency scam. The woman told police that she had been contacted through her LinkedIn account by …

A 36-year-old Millstone man has been charged with the August 22 robbery of a bank on Route 27, following a three-month investigation by local, state and federal authorities. In addition, three members of the man’s family have been charged with hindering apprehension, police said. Township police received a call at about 2:08 p.m. on August 22 that a Route 27 …

A 24-year-old New York man was charged September 29 with murder and related offenses in connection with the killing of a 20-year-old township man. Police responded to a 12:28 p.m. 9-1-1 call to a Eugene Avenue residence, where they found J’Corey Breedy with a stab wound to his abdomen. Police and responding EMT personnel initiated life-saving measures and transported Breedy …

A 33-year-old Philadelphia, Pa. man has been charged with the April 2020 murder of a Park Street man, authorities said on September 6. The man faces charges of 1st Degree Murder, 2nd Degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose,  2nd Degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, and 2nd Degree Unlawfully Disturbing Human Remains in the death of 27-year-old …