Crime News

[wpgmappity id=”19″] A 19-year-old man is in stable condition after having been shot in his midsection during the evening of June 9. The man was found near Sidney Place and Hamilton Street at about 9:26 p.m., according to a press release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …

Four Ambrose Street residents were assaulted and robbed in their home June 1 by a trio of men brandishing weapons, police said. The residents, who were not identified, told police that they were pistol-whipped by three men who forced themselves into the home. The victims told police that their assailants were brandishing two handguns and one shotgun. Don’t Miss Out! …

Anita Cupa, 78, was found dead in her car parked in the Rutgers Plaza parking lot. Photo: New Jersey State Police. A 78-year-old woman suffering from dementia was found dead in her car in the Rutgers Plaza parking lot May 7, police said. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

Jason Fennes, a former 1st Grade teacher at Cedar Hill Prep School, has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his former students at the school. Photo: Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Updated: On May 8, Fennes pleaded not guilty to the charges in state superior Court, Somerville. Fennes remains in custody in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, in lieu of …

A 37-year-old Somerset resident was killed early in the morning of May 5 when his vehicle apparently left the road and crashed into the Delaware River, according to New York State Police. State troopers reported that Stephen J. Maikisch, III, was found dead in his 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you …

Emergency responders work to extricate the victim of a construction accident on Neuville Drive. Update: The man killed in the collapse has been identified as Selvin Antulio Lopez-Castillo of Plainfield. Police said OSHA has determined that the workers “failed to meet proper trench safety requirements and a lack of shoring,” and a stop-work order has been issued until the investigation …

Louis Gonzalez. Photos: Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Two men – one of whom sustained a head injury – were arrested May 1 in connection with an armed robbery on Myrtle Street. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly …

Township Police Chief Lawrence Roberts asked for the public’s help in further cutting the township’s crime rate. Major crime in the township is on the decline, state police statistics show. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving …

Maria Ducos, Officer Deyo Swartz, Maria Santiago and Officer Nicholas Gambino (left to right) meet on Spruce Street on April 17. To the rest of the world, they’re police officers, but to Maria Ducos, they’re more than that. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …

One man was suffered smoke inhalation April 17 in an early-morning fire in a Reler Lane apartment. The unidentified 35-year-old man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick for treatment, police said. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We …