Crime News

A 16-year-old township resident has been arrested in connection with the Feb. 27 fire that briefly emptied out Franklin Township High School. In a release about the incident, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Capt. Jack Bennett said the youth has been charged with 2nd Degree Aggravated Arson. Bennett said the youth used a lighter to set fire to a piece …

An unoccupied car on Ray Street was shot at multiple times the evening of Feb. 25, police said. Township police received a call about gunshots at about 8:40 p.m., according to a release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Township police officers, detectives and members of the prosecutor’s Major Crimes Unit responded, the release said. The incident …

A fight over a cell phone charger led to a man being sent to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, police said. Police reported that on Feb. 25, a fight between two men broke out in front of a Pickering Place home. Police said the two men – identified only as a 41-year-old Asian man and a 42-year-old black …

Collected snow from multiple storms last week was blamed for the collapse of two structures in the township, police said. On Feb. 13, a 100 x 75-foot portion of a roof at 65 Clyde Rd. collapsed due to the weight of collected snow, police said. There was no one in the building at the time, police said. Five businesses are …

A Franklin Middle School teacher has been arrested on charges of possession  and distribution of heroin, according to court records. The Franklin Reporter & Advocate is not naming the teacher because the arrest has not yet been publicly announced. Details of the arrest are included in Superior Court records reviewed by the FR&A. The teacher was arrested last month, outside …

A car stolen from a Parkside Street resident was found later the same day in New Brunswick, police said. The resident told police that he parked his black 2000 Honda Civic in the building’s north parking lot around 6 p.m. on Jan. 27. He said he found the car missing when he returned to the spot he parked it, about …

An 18-year-old North Brunswick woman remains in custody in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, on a theft charge. Police said that Nicole  Hopkins was seen on surveillance film Jan. 23 pocketing $350 at a cashier’s station at the Stop & Shop on Route 27. Police said the video showed Hopkins counting some money, then placing it under some papers before …

Two Somerset men remain incarcerated at the Middlesex County Jail, New Brunswick, on robbery charges stemming from an alleged Jan. 4 home invasion. The two were among three men arrested as they allegedly fled from the scene, police said. Juan K. Dunlap, 31 and Rick R. Barley, 54, were charged with Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Possession of a …

The two brothers accused of murdering a 28-year-old New Brunswick resident have been arrested, police said. Police said that Zaire Cromedy, 21, of Langley Place, New Brunswick surrendered to detectives at the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office in Somerville at about 5 p.m. His brother, Antwan Cromedy, 28, of Vosseller Avenue, Bound Brook, was arrested at his home at about 12:10 …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mA7CkG4Cc The 28-year-old New Brunswick man killed Dec. 29 at a Somerset Street barber shop was an up-and-coming rapper known as E-9. Eric Andrews Jr. – who also went by the name E’An – was shot shortly before 6 p.m., police said. Police discovered his body outside the Nu Trendz Hair Studio, 563 Somerset St., after responding to a 911 …