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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today Virgil Suggs, 42, of Newark has been arrested and charged with the murder of Bronique McLeod, 24, of Newark. McLeod was shot while sitting in a vehicle in the 300 block of Hawthorne Avenue in Newark at approximately 11:28 p.m.…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Sahad Byrd, 23, of Newark pleaded guilty before the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez to aggravated manslaughter for killing his girlfriend, Chiquitah Mayes, 21, also of Newark. On April 8, 2011 Byrd fatally stabbed Mayes at her grandmother’s Treacy Avenue home in Newark as she was…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that the Honorable Judge Peter Ryan, J.S.C., sentenced Robert Johnson, 46, of Newark to eight years in New Jersey State Prison for sexually assaulting a developmentally delayed 14-year-old girl in the bathroom at a Rutgers University library in Newark. On Feb. 24, 2011, three days after…
