Crime

A Franklin Greens apartment resident reported March 1 that someone stole a metal table from their patio. Police said the apartment is located on the first floor of building facing John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are …

Feb. 28 Mitalben Modi of Somerset was driving down Easton Avenue, past Culver Street, she told police, when she had a coughing fit, causing her car to rear-end an auto driven by Manas Das, also of Somerset. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. …

A 7-year-old township child is being treated at St. Barnabas Burn Center after sustaining 2nd degree burns over 30 percent of his body, police said. Police responded to a 9-1-1 call at about 4:42 p.m. to find that the boy had accidentally pulled a pot of boiling water onto himself. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …

Interim schools Superintendent Eveny Pagan said no state action would be taken against the district as a result of an incident in January when a 3-year-old special needs student was left on a school bus all day. A January incident in which a 3-year-old was left on a Franklin Park School bus all day was deemed by a state agency …

A 16-year-old township resident has been arrested in connection with the Feb. 27 fire that briefly emptied out Franklin Township High School. In a release about the incident, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Capt. Jack Bennett said the youth has been charged with 2nd Degree Aggravated Arson. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

An unoccupied car on Ray Street was shot at multiple times the evening of Feb. 25, police said. Township police received a call about gunshots at about 8:40 p.m., according to a release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by …

A fight over a cell phone charger led to a man being sent to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, police said. Police reported that on Feb. 25, a fight between two men broke out in front of a Pickering Place home. Police said the two men – identified only as a 41-year-old Asian man and a 42-year-old black …

Cars driven by Hedwig Kayden and Timothy Danzey, both of Somerset, in the K-Mart parking lot off Easton Avenue collided. Each driver blamed the other. § Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving the Eight …

Feb. 21 Christopher Randazza of Somerset was backing his pickup truck out of a parking space at Walgreen’s on Hamilton Street when it struck a parked car leased by Rosemary Montes of Edison. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the …

Maria Delvillar of Perth Amboy was cited for careless driving after the bus she was driving struck a car driven by Ashley Robinson of Somerset. Robinson said she was stopped at Layne Road and Leupp Lane when Delvillar’s bus turned left onto Layne and struck her car. § Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you …