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Update 2: Police have released two surveillance videos showing two people of interest and an automobile of interest. One person of interest appears to have a distinct walk, and the vehicle appears to be a dark- or gray-colored sedan. The car turned left on Route 27 and headed north, police say. Police are seeking any information which may lead to …

Five township residents were among seven people charged with running a Franklin-based marijuana distribution ring, police said on June 25. The five township residents, all in their 20s, were charged along with two New Brunswick residents, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. The seven face charges of 2nd Degree Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana …

What was supposed to be a routine in-person culmination of an online PlayStation game console exchange for four township residents turned into robberies of all of them by a 22-year-old New Brunswick man, police said on June 24. The man was arrested on June 19 near Hempstead Plaza on Route 27 and charged with two counts of 1st Degree Robbery …

Police are seeking the public’s help in investigating a June 20 shooting that left a Woodbridge man wounded. Police received a a call about a man with a gunshot wound near Baier Avenue at about 1:55 a.m. June 20, according to a release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Responding officers found the unidentified man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. …

A 28-year-old township man was among two men charged with the death of a Milltown woman after a three-car crash on Route 1 in North Brunswick. The man, who was arrested on June 18 in North Brunswick, was charged along with a 33-year-old Newark man in the May 24 three-car crash, which killed 19-year-old Felicity Eden of Milltown, according to …

The investigation continues into a June 4 car crash on Easton Avenue that left one township man dead and another Franklin resident injured. Police said Marlene Martin of Somerset, 76, was attempting a left turn from Easton onto Girard Avenue in her 2008 Nissan Rogue when she collided with a 1999 Hyundai Elantra driven by Alexander Macniven, 23, also of …

Two township 19-year-old men have been charged in connection with the May 2019 murder of another Franklin man near the Franklin Greens apartment complex. One of the men surrendered at the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office on June 3, while the other was charged the same day at the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, where he was being held on an unrelated …

A 29-year-old New Brunswick man has been arrested din connection with the May 2019 murder of a Franklin residents. The man is the second person arrested in the case, the first arrest coming in November 2019. At that time, a 28-year-old New Brunswick man was charged with the killing of 30-year-old David D. Anderson, according to a press release from …

Police are investigating a May 16 shooting that left a township man wounded. Township police received a call at about 1:05 a.m. reporting gunshots near Oak Avenue and Route 27, according to a press release the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office issued on May 20. Arriving officers found a car with bullet holes, and a man inside suffering from non-threatening gunshot …

A 63-year-old South Brunswick man was killed early on March 12 when he tried to cross Route 27 near South Middlebush Road, police said. Police said the man was struck by a 2006 Lexus traveling south on the state highway shortly after 6 a.m. Responding officers found the man lying on the road, unresponsive, according to a press release from …