Crime News

Franklin Township Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather speaking at the January 24 Township Council meeting. The death of a 29-year-old Memphis man, allegedly by five Memphis police officers, has “hurt us all,” Franklin Township Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather said in a statement released on January 27. In the lengthy statement, Maeweather expresses condolences for Tyre Nichols’ family and details …

So-called “porch pirates” – people who steal delivered packages from people’s porches – were busy in the township during the waning days of 2022, police said. Here are the reported cases, furnished by the Franklin Township Police Department: December 19 A Township resident was the victim of a package theft during the afternoon hours in the area of Sunflower Rd. …

There were a rash of car thefts and burglaries to autos in the township during the last two weeks of the year, according to police. Here are the incidents, as reported by police: December 18 A township resident’s vehicle was stolen while it was left running outside of an auto business on Somerset St. during the afternoon hours. Two black …

Three township residents were scammed out of a total of $31,000, as reported to police at the end of November and beginning of December. On November 30, a township woman reported that she was scammed out of $26,000 in what policed said was a cryptocurrency scam. The woman told police that she had been contacted through her LinkedIn account by …

A 36-year-old Millstone man has been charged with the August 22 robbery of a bank on Route 27, following a three-month investigation by local, state and federal authorities. In addition, three members of the man’s family have been charged with hindering apprehension, police said. Township police received a call at about 2:08 p.m. on August 22 that a Route 27 …

A 24-year-old New York man was charged September 29 with murder and related offenses in connection with the killing of a 20-year-old township man. Police responded to a 12:28 p.m. 9-1-1 call to a Eugene Avenue residence, where they found J’Corey Breedy with a stab wound to his abdomen. Police and responding EMT personnel initiated life-saving measures and transported Breedy …

A 33-year-old Philadelphia, Pa. man has been charged with the April 2020 murder of a Park Street man, authorities said on September 6. The man faces charges of 1st Degree Murder, 2nd Degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose,  2nd Degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, and 2nd Degree Unlawfully Disturbing Human Remains in the death of 27-year-old …

An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen from Chase Bank on Route 27 in Franklin Park on August 22 by a man who escaped on a motorcycle, authorities said. Township police were notified about the robbery at about 2:08 p.m., according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. WItnesses said a man entered the bank and demanded …

A 39-year-old Douglasville, Georgia man faces charges of attempted murder and kidnapping after an August 21 incident at a township hotel, in which he allegedly held a woman and her two children at gunpoint before shooting her when she tried to escape. Police received a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooting at the unnamed Worlds Fair Drive hotel at about 1:25 …

A 32-year-old Somerset man remains in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, on several charges, including attempted murder. The man was charged July 27 after allegedly trying to stab a man on Easton Avenue. Police said the incident began in the evening of July 22 when the two men were involved in an altercation at an unnamed Easton Avenue gas station. …