A portion of Hamilton Street was closed for several hours Wednesday after a tractor-trailer overturned at Veronica Avenue, dumping a 90,000-pound concrete form into the intersection. No one was injured in the 6:35 a.m. accident, police said. The tractor was driven by Ronald Kinmon, 57, of Bay Minette Alabama. Police blocked off Hamilton Street between Veronica Avenue and JFK …
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A township man remains in the Somerset County Jail after being charged Sept. 3 with the attempted murder of a woman in her apartment. Ahmed Taylor-Kamara, 26, of Arlington Avenue, was charged with 1st Degree Attempted Murder and 3rd Degree Possession of a Weapon for Unlawful Purposes, according to a release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Bail for Taylor-Kamara …
Read More »Township police participated in an undercover operation with four other law enforcement agencies that resulted in the Aug. 22 arrests of 14 people from five states on prostitution and drug-related charges. According to a press release on the arrests, the township police worked on a task force with detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, officers from the New Brunswick …
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Authorities have charged a Sayreville man with the Aug. 3 armed robbery of a township resident. Christopher Boston, 19, of Smith Street, Sayreville was charged with First Degree Robbery, police said. A 15-year-old told police that he was sitting in a car at Hempstead Gardens at about 8:30 p.m. when a man pointed a gun at him and demanded his …
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A $5,000 reward has been posted for information into last weekend’s multiple shootings that left a township man wounded and included a shootout in a parking lot. Police have no new information on the incidents, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Jack Bennett said Wednesday. The incidents began on shortly after 3 p.m. Aug. 23 when township police responded to a …
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Two Somerset men were indicted Aug. 28 on drug-related, weapons and attempted murder charges. A Grand Jury returned indictments on multiple charges against Pablo Hernandez-Garcia, 26 and Luis Carreon, 24 in connection with a July incident in the township. The two face charges of 1st Degree attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, 2nd Degree counts of possession of a …
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