A 23-year-old township man was in serious condition Aug. 5 after he was thrown from his motorcycle on Ralph Street. David Vega was riding his 2018 Honda motorcycle on Ralph Street shortly before 6:30 a.m. when he hit a parked car, according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. The impact threw Vega off of his motorcycle …

The township man who was among six charged with running a retail theft ring out of a Hamilton Street business was on probation from a previous conviction when the latest alleged illegal activity was taking place. David Rubin, 59, owner of Everything Wireless, 665 Hamilton St., was still serving a 24-month probationary sentence when the investigation into the theft ring …

A 26-year-old Franklin man has been charged with murdering another township man in New Brunswick and then dumping his body near Pine Grove Manor School. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office announced the July 5 arrest of Abubakaar “Diddy” King in a press release on July 6. King is charged with killing Darren Fordham Jr,, 26, whose body was found on …

Update: Authorities have identified the dead man as 26-year-old Darren Fordham, Jr. Police said Fordham suffered multiple gunshot wounds, but would not disclose the location of those wounds “to maintain the integrity of the investigation,” according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. The shooting was not random, the release said, although police still do not have …

A 22-year-old township man has been arrested on attempted murder and weapons charges in connection with a June 23 shooting on Reler Avenue. Police said Christopher Williams was in a parked car near buildings 26 and 28 on Reler, which is in the Somerset Mews development off Route 27, when he was approached by a 23-year-old South Brunswick man. An …

Sampson G. Smith Intermediate School students were placed under a “shelter in place” order for about two hours May 30 after a bullet was found on a hallway floor. At 12:25 p.m., a Franklin Township Police officer patrolling the school as part of the district’s new safety initiative was told by school officials that they had found a single, small-caliber …

Township police are seeking the public’s help in finding who is responsible for an attack on a driver on Willow Avenue. Police received a 9-1-1 call at about 12:30 a.m. May 27 from a woman who reported that someone had thrown a rock through her car’s window. The woman, who was not identified, told police that someone had put a …

A 77-year-old Piscataway man apparently escaped injury May 24 after he slipped and fell into the Delaware & Raritan Canal in East Millstone. Township police received a report of a man in the water near Amwell Road and Market Street at about 11:15 a.m., according to a press release from the FTPD. Arriving police and firefighters from the Franklin Township …

A 22-year-old South Brunswick man stands charged with 2nd Degree Robbery after he allegedly punched a 70-year-old man and stole his gold chain in Franklin Park. The victim, a Monmouth Junction resident, was in a Route 27 strip mall parking lot May 18 when he was approached by a man who struck up a conversation with him, according to a …

A 40-year-old township man was sentenced on May 11 to more than 17 years in state prison after his convictions on seven counts of sexual crimes. Thomas Canales was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Colleen Flynn, sitting in New Brunswick, to 17 1/2 years in state prison. He will have to serve 85 percent of 16 years of that …