Police are investigating the circumstances behind a Dec. 28 accident that killed a 59-year-old Franklin Park man. Police received a call at 7:52 p.m. reporting that a pedestrian had been hit behind the Stop and Shop located on Route 27 in Franklin Park, according to a press release about the incident.
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The township police department will receive $1,347 for the purchase of three body worn cameras under a grant program from the state Attorney General’s Office. Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced at a Dec. 21 press conference that $2.5 million has been earmarked for 176 police departments throughout the state. The money comes from criminal forfeiture funds, according to a press …
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A Kingsbridge Road man suffered a broken leg and ankle and extensive bruising after he was pinned under his van for about 45 minutes on Dec. 18, according to a press release from the FTPD. Police received a 9-1-1 call at about 10:34 p.m. of a man lying on Kingsbridge and screaming, according to the release.
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A Franklin Boulevard home was badly damaged and its owner displaced Dec. 17 after a fire started on the home’s stove. The home’s 78-year-old owner and a 60-year-old aide – neither of whom were identified – escaped the blaze unharmed, police said in a release about the incident.
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The former licensed operator of the New Brunswick water system – from which the township buys drinking water – plead guilty Dec. 17 to lying “hundreds of times” about the results of water tests. Edward O’Rourke, 60, of Brick, plead guilty to 2nd Degree Corruption of Public resources and 3rd Degree violations of the Safe Water Drinking Act, according to …
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A tip to township police led to the Dec. 15 arrests of three Ocean County residents on charges relating to prostitution. Christopher Soubasis, 51 and Deidre Pietrowski, 44, both of Point Pleasant, and Rebecca Ehrhardt, 34, Toms River, were arrested by township police after setting up surveillance at a local hotel, according to a release on the arrests from the …
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A 45-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman in the township. Fernando Nunez-Genao was charged with 2nd Degree sexual assault in connection with the Dec. 4 incident, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspected shooter of a Bordentown resident on Franklin Boulevard. The 44-year-old man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital, after he had taken himself to the facility, according to a press release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
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A Bound Brook man faces a variety of charges after he pulled a knife on a township police officer Dec. 2 during a traffic stop on DeMott Lane. Terrence Foendoe, 38, remains in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, in lieu of $20,000 bail with a 10 percent option, according to papers filed with Superior Court in Somerville.
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A township man is free on $150,000 bail after his arrest on a charge that he convinced hundreds of senior citizens to submit to unnecessary genetic testing and defrauded Medicare out of more than $1 million, collecting thousands in commissions along the way. Seth Rehfuss, 41, was arrested the morning of Dec. 2 at his Somerset home, according to a press …
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