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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that Anthony Burrows, 24, of Newark was arrested for the murder of Russell Lighten, Jr., 24, also of Newark. On Aug. 20, Lighten was fatally shot in the 400 block of South 17th Street in Newark at approximately 9:35 p.m.…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Newark minister who filed a false insurance claim but failed to appear in court to face the charges. Rev. Amir Natson, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located at 119 Camden Street in Newark, was indicted…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County jury convicted Robert Goodwin, 49, of Newark of second degree insurance fraud for submitting a fraudulent insurance claim related to the theft and torching of his girlfriend’s vehicle. “We hope this case sends a very clear message that people who lie to…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that the Honorable Judge Peter V. Ryan, J.S.C., sentenced Salvador Storch, 49, of West Orange to 30 years in state prison for aggravated sexual assault of a girl over a three year period. On Thursday May 24, 2012, a jury found Storch, a West Orange mechanic,…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Irvington Police Director Joseph Santiago announced today the Irvington Police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Bureau are searching for a man wanted for sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman in Irvington. On Aug. 8, at approximately 3 am the victim was sexually assaulted in 900 block…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Isaiah Brinson, 18, of Irvington pleaded guilty to attempted first degree murder, first degree robbery, and second degree unlawful weapons possession. Assistant Prosecutor Justin Edwab, who handled the case, said at approximately 10 a.m. on March 28, 2011, Brinson robbed at gunpoint a male Verizon…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and West Orange Police Chief James P. Abbott announced today that Nolvin Garcia, 24, of Orange is wanted for the murder of Jacques Nelson. Nelson, 32, of Orange, was employed as a bouncer at Misty’s Restaurant and Bar located at 277 Main Street in West Orange. The father…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and East Orange Police Chief William C. Robinson announced today that the East Orange Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating an incident that resulted in the arrest of a 15-year-old juvenile from Newark. The juvenile has been charge with assaulting a police officer, receiving…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that the Honorable Peter V. Ryan, J.S.C., sentenced Colleth Merle Rhodes, 54, of Staten Island, N.Y. and Elizabeth, N.J., to 7 years in state prison for one count of second degree theft. While working as an account manager at XCEL Federal Credit Union in Bloomfield, Rhodes…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Montclair Police Chief David Sabagh announced today that Ernest Williams, Jr., 21, of Montclair has been arrested and charged with the murder of Brian Schiavetti, a 21-year-old of Villanova University student from Ridgefield, Ct. “Our detectives and those the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force…
