Crime

Police are trying to figure out why a Montgomery man was lying on Route 27 Feb. 26 before he was struck by a car. According to police, Todd Hawthorne, 53, was found lying on Rt. 27 near the Little Rocky Hill fire house shortly after 10 p.m. by Officer David Cruz, who was on patrol. Hawthorne was unconscious and bleeding from …

Township police are investigating a one-car accident on Amwell Road that left a Mount Laurel woman injured. Police said that at about 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 26, a 2007 Dodge Charger driven westbound on the road by Adelaide Slobert, 63, crossed the center line into the eastbound lane, left the road and struck a ditch before overturning.

A Somerset man who was a former deportation officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement was indicted Feb. 22 by a federal Grand Jury on multiple bribery and immigration-related charges. Arnaldo Echevarria, 38, was charged with seven counts of accepting bribes, one count of harboring an undocumented immigrant and one count of making false statements to immigration authorities, according to a press release …

A North Brunswick man was arrested on drug-related charges Feb. 12 after he allegedly made several drug sales to an undercover detective in the parking lot of a township restaurant. Juan Jose’ Morales-Bustos, 28, was arrested in the parking lot of an unnamed Route 27 restaurant after allegedly selling an undercover detective assigned to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Organized …

A Monroe man suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after being involved in a three-vehicle crash on South Middlebush Road on Feb. 16. South Middlebush Road was closed for about four hours during the investigation.

A 26-year-old New Brunswick man escaped serious injury Feb. 15 after he was shot several times in his hands and torso on Ambrose Street, authorities said. Township police and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office are asking for the public’s help in locating the person who shot the unidentified man.

Update: William Shaw has been charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, careless driving and two counts of having open containers of alcohol within a motor vehicle, according to township police. Original Story: Three people were injured in an automobile accident Feb. 6 that closed part of Easton Avenue for more than five hours.

Three township residents – one a juvenile – were arrested Feb. 2 after a loaded handgun was found in a car they were driving in Manville. Rashiene Rochester and Malcolm Allen, both 22, and a juvenile were arrested in the Marketplace at Manville shopping center, according to a release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Two men – one a township resident – were charged Feb. 1 in connection with the robbery of a woman outside of Office Depot, in Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue. Police said that Andre Quinn, 22, of Somerset and Bradley St. Clair, 22, of Dunellen, were arrested on Irvington Avenue a short time after the robbery, which was reported to …

Three men, including one from the township, were arrested Jan 12 on drug-related charges in separate incidents, according to authorities. All the arrests were as the result of tips to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force. The arrests netted drugs with a combined street value of more than $5,000, according to police.