Crime

A 37-year-old Hillsborough man died by an apparent suicide early in the morning of March 27, Franklin Township police said on March 29. The unidentified man was parked in Colonial Park at the time, according to the FTPD’s press release. Police were called at about 7:44 a.m. about a “suspicious vehicle” parked in the park, according to the release. Arriving …

Eight township residents were among 24 people arrested on drug-related charges following a seven-month investigation County law enforcement officials dubbed “Fire and Ice.” Ten of those charged were arrested on February 16, 10 were arrested on March 2 and two remain at large, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Twenty search warrants executed on the …

A township firefighter suffered breathing difficulties fighting a fire in a vacant Girard Avenue house on February 28. The fire was deemed to be not suspicious, and its cause and origin are under investigation, according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. Police received a 9-1-1 call about a smoke condition in the Girard and Hillcrest avenues …

Police are looking to the public for help in investigating a February 22 hit-and-run accident that killed a 50-year-old New Brunswick woman. Police said Treasa M. Daye-Fennie was crossing Somerset Street near High Street at about 8:29 p.m. when she was struck by a car. The driver fled the scene, police said. Daye-Fennie was pronounced dead at the scene, police …

Tayyab A. Ware, left, was convicted on February 15 for the murder of Franklin resident Denny Sanchez. Ware’s co-defendant, Todd Smith, right, plead guilty to a robbery charge in connection with the murder. (Photo: Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.) A 31-year-old Georgia man was convicted February 15 of shooting to death a township resident in 2020 in the back of a …

There were no reported injuries in a January 6 fire in a unit in the Arbors apartment complex on Franklin Boulevard, officials said. Police responded to the apartment following a 1:59 p.m. call reporting smoke from a rooftop, according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. Police saw the smoke and evacuated residents from adjoining apartments. The …

The driver of this car was cited for reckless driving after he drove into the front wall of the U.S. Post Office on DeMott Lane. A 68-year-old man was cited for careless driving December 15 after he crashed his 2010 Honda Pilot into the U.S. Post Office building at 500 DeMott Lane. Police said Sushil Patel was inattentive when he …

A 13-year-old Franklin Middle School student has been charged for making a prank threat against the school on December 14. The student was charged with 3rd Degree Creating a False Public Alarm, according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. The FTPD was alerted by district officials about a text message, circulating among some students, that threatened …

A New Brunswick woman faces manslaughter and other charges in connection with a Thanksgiving night car accident which killed her son and his cousin, a township 9-year-old. The 31-year-old woman drove the wrong way on the on-ramp from Route 130 to Route 1 in North Brunswick when the car she was driving struck an Old Bridge police cruiser carrying two …

Update: Two New Brunswick men have been charged with the murder of Lorenzo Hill Staten. Police said the killing was not random, and all three knew each other. The shooting death of a Franklin man is under investigation by New Brunswick police. City police responded to Seamen Street and Remsen Avenue on a call reporting a shooting at about about …