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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today Noah Cuebas, 27, of East Orange plead guilty to two counts of murder and weapons offenses. On Feb. 21, 2005 Cuebas murdered Allen Reese, 17, of Newark. Cuebas abducted Ishwanda Hutchins, a 14-year-old Newark girl, at gunpoint, took her to the basement of a condemned building…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Jerome J. Davis, 17, of Newark plead guilty to first degree aggravated sexual assault of a Newark woman before the Honorable Peter Vazquez, P.J.S.C. Davis was prosecuted as an adult. Assistant Prosecutor Walter Dirkin said the incident occurred on March 10, 2009. Davis, who was…
Reginald Anthony, 28, and Shaun Woodson, 24, both of East Orange, are scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 12 Noon before Judge Peter J. Vazquez for the murder of Robert Nevius, 91, of Essex Fells. Judge Vazquez’s courtroom is located on the 6th Floor, Courtroom 604, of the Essex County Veterans…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today Rory Palmer, 26, of Newark, a Newark Special Police Officer, was arrested on a complaint charging him with official misconduct, theft by deception and tampering with public records. Between September 1, 2009 and March 1, 2010, Palmer was assigned to work at the Newark Public Library.…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that an indictment was returned by an Essex County Grand Jury charging Kenneth Brown, 44, of Nutley with first degree vehicular homicide. The four count indictment also charges Brown with second degree vehicular homicide and two counts of aggravated assault. The indictment alleges Brown was impaired…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced an indictment was returned by an Essex County Grand Jury charging Richard M. Chesler, 18, of Millburn with first degree aggravated manslaughter for the death of Ari Vuotila, 40, of South Orange. The three count indictment also charged Chesler with vehicular homicide, a first degree offense;…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today (April 17, 2010) that Shaun Woodson, 24, of East Orange has been arrested on a complaint charging him with felony murder, murder, robbery and weapons offenses for the murder of Robert Nevius, 91, of Essex Fells. Woodson is the co-defendant of Reginald Anthony, 28, of East…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Reginald Anthony, 28, of East Orange has been arrested on a complaint charging him with felony murder, murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses for the murder of Robert Nevius, 91, of Essex Fells. Anthony, who was hired as a chauffeur to drive Mr. Nevius and…
At approximately 5 p.m. a male was shot. An hour later he was pronounced dead at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The incident occurred in the 90th block of Willoughby Street in Newark. It is actively being investigated by Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Squad and the Newark Police Homicide Squad.…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Rosa Mino, 70, of Harrison was struck while crossing Broad Street, between Bridge and Lombardy, in Newark at approximately 12:30 p.m. on April 14. The driver of the car, which has preliminarily been identified as a black or dark colored Cadillac STS, fled the scene…
