Crime

A 19-year-old Franklin High School student was arrested April 3 and charged for allegedly phoning in a false bomb threat to the school in January. The woman, Annissia Gayle of Somerset, remained in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, on April 4 pending her detention hearing, according to court records.

Update: Harriot surrendered to authorities at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick at approximately 11 a.m. April 3, according to a release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. The investigation is still ongoing. Harriot will be held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick pending an April 5 detention hearing, according to the release.

You shouldn’t be doing it anyway, but think twice for the first three weeks of April before you pick up that phone while driving. The state’s annual “U Text, U Drive, U Pay” crackdown on distracted driving begins April 1 – no joke – and the Franklin Township Police Department is one of 207 departments across the state receiving some …

Update: 19-year-old Ryan M. Salvagno has been charged with assault, a disorderly person’s offense and harassment, a petty disorderly person’s offense after he allegedly tried to take a “Make America Great Again” cap from an 81-year-old man, assaulting him in the process. A release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said that Salvagno followed the victim out of Shop Rite …

Update 3: Garcia on Feb. 22 was indicted on a number of charges in connection with the incident, including aggravated manslaughter in the first degree, vehicular homicide in the second degree, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in the second degree, causing death while driving with a suspended license in the third degree, three counts of …

A 25-year-old New York man was arrested on burglary and theft charges Feb. 15 in connection with a break-in at the township Municipal Building on DeMott Lane. Police said that Rasheem Robinson was charged with 3rd Degree Burglary, 3rd Degree Theft, and Criminal Mischief, a disorderly persons offense.

A 36-year-old Somerset man was indicted Jan. 25 in connection with the September 2018 death of a Rutgers student in New Brunswick. A Grand Jury sitting in New Brunswick indicted David Stewart for 3d Degree Strict Liability Vehicular Homicide and for driving with a suspended license while involved in a motor vehicle accident causing the death of another, according to …

A phoned-in bomb threat to Franklin High School the afternoon of Jan. 23 resulted in the school being evacuated, but no bomb being found. The threat was phoned in to the school at about 12:45 p.m., according to a press release from the Franklin Township Police Department. Patrol officers and detectives responded, and after an initial “shelter in place” order …

Franklin High School was under a “shelter in place” order for about 90 minutes Jan. 18 after a teacher discovered what was thought to be a threatening note. The threat was later determined to be a hoax, according to township police.

Two Bound Brook men were charged recently with attempted murder in connection with a September drive-by shooting on Franklin Boulevard. Dyshawn O. Williams, 23 and Sekuann D. Copeland, 22, both of Talmadge Avenue in Bound Brook, were charged with 1st Degree Attempted Murder and 2nd Degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose following their arrests on Jan. 3 …