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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today the arraignments of two Essex County men who were indicted on charges arising from deadly fires in buildings that were allegedly illegally occupied. Eugene Alverna, 63, of West Orange was charged with two counts of second degree violation of the Uniform Fire Safety Act and the…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has obtained an arrest warrant charging Justin Hazel, 25, of East Orange with the stabbing murder of Floyd McLean, 39, of East Orange. Hazel was also charged with two weapons offenses – illegal possession of a weapon and possession of…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that an Essex County Grand Jury returned a three-count indictment charging Anivia Cruz-Dilworth, 28, of New Brunswick with practicing medicine without a license. In March, six women showed up in the emergency rooms of Essex County area hospitals complaining of problems after having received buttocks-enhancement injections.…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Kareem Spence, an East Orange Police officer, pleaded guilty today to insurance fraud before the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez, Judge of the Superior Court. Spence, 35, of South Plainfield had been an East Orange police officer for six years. In court today he admitted torching…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Tysheed R. White, 18, of East Orange has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of James Gadie, 22, of Newark. Both men were inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility. The preliminary investigation indicates the cellmates got into a fight yesterday…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that David James Jackson, 27, of Newark has pleaded guilty to killing three people at a Newark social club. Jackson admitted killing Cynthia Corbett, 46, Jessie Young, 44, and Yusef Muhammad, who was 48 when he died three years after the Sept. 27, 2005 shooting. All…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that a husband and wife were hit by a BMW early this morning in Newark. Jose Goncalves, 52, of Union was struck and killed in the vicinity of Park Avenue and 7th Street in Newark. Mr. Goncalves was standing outside his lunch truck “Joe’s Café’’ with…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that an Essex County jury convicted Abbijial Sloan, 42, of Newark of first degree murder for killing his wife, Nicole Sloan, 37, also of Newark. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before returning a verdict finding Sloan guilty of first degree murder, endangering the…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that the New Jersey Supreme Court denied the prosecutor’s motion for leave to appeal the ruling suppressing the statement given by Gerardo Gomez in connection with the August 2007 Newark school yard slaying case. Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the Appellate Division of Superior…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Melvin Jovel, 21, of Elizabeth, who admitted murdering three Delaware State University students and attempting to murder a fourth, was sentenced to 245 years in state prison today by the Honorable Michael L. Ravin, Judge of the Superior Court. Judge Ravin sentenced Jovel to three…
