Employee Arrested After Torching Storage Company

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel A. DeMaio announced today that Michael Parker, 40, of Newark was arrested and charged with aggravated arson and terroristic threats setting a small fire at Father and Son Moving Co., on Frelinghuysen Avenue in Newark. Parker was employed by the Moving Company. This…

Authorities Offer Reward for Suspected Rapist

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department are seeking assistance from the public in identifying a man believed to have been involved in two home invasions during which three women were sexually assaulted. During the month of February 2013, the suspect entered two separate homes in Newark brandishing a knife. In the…

Millburn Township Public Worker Arrested for Theft

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Millburn Public Works Department employee Anthony P. Boffa, 44, of Springfield, has been arrested and charged with theft. Boffa is charged with third degree theft by deception for purchasing landscaping products through the Township and giving the products to a private landscaper to repay a…

Man Charged with Kidnapping Girl

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Pedro R. Rios, 57, of Newark was arraigned today at the Essex County Veterans Courthouse on three counts of kidnapping, five counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of hindering apprehension. Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Deborah Freier, who is handling the…

Two Convicted in Police Shoot Out

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Anwar Crockett, 32, and Ali Ibn Karim, 31, both of Elizabeth, were convicted by an Essex County jury of eluding, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and weapons charges, including possession of an assault firearm. In addition, the defendants were convicted of possession of a weapon…