Crime

A 31-year-old Highland Park man was arrested in the township’s Somerset section on drug-related charges. The man was arrested after a brief chase on August 5, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Little information was provided in the release. The arrest was the result of a three-month investigation, during which time the man sold heroin …

A 20-year-old South Dover Avenue man has been charged in connection with two shootings in the township on December 30 and 31, 2019. The man is the fourth suspect charged in the shootings, which left a King Road man wounded. Early in the morning of December 30, 27 shots were fired at a Barker Road home. No one was injured, …

Update 2: Police have released two surveillance videos showing two people of interest and an automobile of interest. One person of interest appears to have a distinct walk, and the vehicle appears to be a dark- or gray-colored sedan. The car turned left on Route 27 and headed north, police say. Police are seeking any information which may lead to …

Quovella Spruill. The township’s new Public Safety Director is one of the newest members of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives’ executive board. Quovella Spruill will serve a one-year term as the organization’s national financial secretary, according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. According to the release, the group, NOBLE, was founded in September …

County Prosecutor Offices from Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties will hold a joint Use of Force virtual Town Hall meeting at 5:30 p.m. July 28. The virtual town hall will include an information session to learn about the current Use-of-Force policy, followed by multiple opportunities to provide feedback, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. This …

Five township residents were among seven people charged with running a Franklin-based marijuana distribution ring, police said on June 25. The five township residents, all in their 20s, were charged along with two New Brunswick residents, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. The seven face charges of 2nd Degree Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana …

What was supposed to be a routine in-person culmination of an online PlayStation game console exchange for four township residents turned into robberies of all of them by a 22-year-old New Brunswick man, police said on June 24. The man was arrested on June 19 near Hempstead Plaza on Route 27 and charged with two counts of 1st Degree Robbery …

Police are seeking the public’s help in investigating a June 20 shooting that left a Woodbridge man wounded. Police received a a call about a man with a gunshot wound near Baier Avenue at about 1:55 a.m. June 20, according to a release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Responding officers found the unidentified man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. …

A 28-year-old township man was among two men charged with the death of a Milltown woman after a three-car crash on Route 1 in North Brunswick. The man, who was arrested on June 18 in North Brunswick, was charged along with a 33-year-old Newark man in the May 24 three-car crash, which killed 19-year-old Felicity Eden of Milltown, according to …

The investigation continues into a June 4 car crash on Easton Avenue that left one township man dead and another Franklin resident injured. Police said Marlene Martin of Somerset, 76, was attempting a left turn from Easton onto Girard Avenue in her 2008 Nissan Rogue when she collided with a 1999 Hyundai Elantra driven by Alexander Macniven, 23, also of …