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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Sharmir Modestin, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. was charged yesterday with impersonating a police officer, kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 27-year-old female exotic dancer in Irvington. The victim was kidnapped in Newark and driven to Irvington where she was sexually assaulted by two men on July…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Michael Handy, 30, of the Bronx was sentenced to 15 years in state prison by the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez, J.S.C., for fatally stabbing Darrick Farmer, 40, of Newark. On July 23, 2010, the two friends were in the lobby of Cameo, a Newark adult…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced that Saleem Wright, 25, of Irvington was sentenced today to six years in state prison by the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez, J.S.C., for the fatal hit and run of 5-year-old Julianne Vega. On July 22, 2010 the little girl was struck and killed by Wright, who was…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force arrested Luis Cruz, age 42, of Nutley and charged him in connection with the 9/17/11 hit and run death of Jodi DeSoto, 48, of Belleville. DeSoto is the widow of the…
Royce Dedeaux, 24, who was arrested on Sept. 20, for carjacking an off-duty Newark Police Lieutenant, has been charged in a second carjacking. The victim of a carjacking on Summer and 3rd Avenues identified Dedeaux as the armed man who carjacked him for his 2011 Jaguar. The incident occurred several hours prior to the carjacking…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that detectives with the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Professional Standards/Bias Crimes Unit arrested Douglas Brown, 36, Newark. Assistant Prosecutor Portia Downing authorized harassment, bias intimidation and criminal mischief charges against Brown. In May of 2011 Brown began harassing his former neighbors, a homosexual couple living on…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’ Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force arrested Emanuel Alvarado, 26, of Belleville, and charged him with filing a false police report. On Sept. 17, at approximately 3:00 am, Alvarado reported to the Newark Police that he…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department are investigating a police-involved shooting. The preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 1:13 AM today an off-duty Newark Police Officer was stopped at a red light in his personal…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Theodore Melhorn, 63, of Livingston was arrested on Thursday night for possessing child pornography. Melhorn, who owns S.A.A.F.E Alarm, a security alarm company in Livingston, inadvertently left a notebook at a customer’s home containing pornographic photographs of young males between the ages of 12 to…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County Grand Jury has returned an 11-count indictment charging Marcus Bascus, 20, and Nicholas Welch, 26, with the murder of Seton Hall University student Jessica Moore. Moore, 19, of Disputanta, Va., was fatally shot at an off-campus party in East Orange. After being…
