Crime News

A 70-mm mortar shell that could date back to as long ago as World War I was taken for disposal June 20 from the front of police headquarters by the bomb commander of the State Police bomb squad. The mortar was brought to the headquarters at about 11 a.m. by a township resident who said he found it in the bottom …

A South Brunswick man was arrested on June 17 on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a township girl over a 13-month period. Brandon O. Cox, 20, was charged with 2nd Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault and 3rd Degree Endangering, according to a press release from Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano.

The 71-year-old township resident who suffered serious head injuries June 17 after she was struck by a car while riding her bike has died, police said. Police said Judith Schrope died later in the day. She was riding her bicycle on Weston Road when she was hit, police said.

A former township woman has been convicted on multiple charges in connection with a 2012 attack on her then-husband that left the man permanently scarred, and partially deaf and blind. Mauvette D. Mattadeen, 43, was found guilty of 2nd Degree Aggravated Assault and 3rd Degree Possession of a Weapon for Unlawful Purposes after a two-week trial in Superior Court, Somerville, according to …

Police are investigating the June 7 theft of a donation jar that held about $400 earmarked for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Police were called at about 1:30 p.m. to the K-Mart in Rutgers Plaza, Easton Avenue, where they were told that a man described as being white and wearing a blue shirt and tan shorts stole a plastic jar …

An 18-year-old Piscataway man who police said robbed a township woman’s purse, then later showed up at her house and stole her car by crashing it through her garage, has been arrested. Police said Jerrold May was arrested at about 5:54 p.m. June 3 in Franklin, after he was seen by police driving a car stolen on May 23 from a …

A 55-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged in connection with a theft from a Hamilton Street dry cleaner, police said. Clarence Davis was charged with 3rd Degree Theft, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

A 24-year-old Linden man arrested last month for brutally beating and stabbing a township woman was indicted May 29 on several counts, including attempted murder. In a release, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said a Grand Jury charged Winston Wilson with 1st Degree attempted murder, 1st Degree robbery, two counts of 3rd Degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and …

  [wpgmappity id=”12″] The 19-year-old Somerset man who was killed May 22 after he was involved in a head-on automobile accident on Cedar Grove Lane was remembered by a former principal as being well-liked and quiet.

Two men – including one from Somerset – were arrested May 21 on drug-related charges after they were found with more than $80,000 in illegal narcotics, police said. Eric Smith, 26, of Hamilton Street and Andrew Rupnarain, 23, of East Brunswick were nabbed by members of the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force and the Franklin Township …