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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 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 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 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…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Robert Nevius, 91, was found unresponsive at approximately 8:40 a.m. in his Essex Fells home by members of the Essex Fells Police Department who went to the home to do a welfare check-in. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Essex Fells Police Department are…
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…
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today the arrest of Terrance Moore, 19, of Newark on a complaint charging him with six counts of aggravated assault. On April 13, 2010, Moore allegedly was the driver of a Chevrolet Malibu that hit six teens, critically injuring two, on North Oraton Parkway in East Orange.…
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 Rafael Miranda, 31, of Newark was arrested for the murder of Bernardo Bermudez, 34, of Dade County, Florida. Bermudez was fatally shot on April 11, 2010 outside a Newark sports bar after he and Miranda allegedly got into a dispute. Miranda was also charged with…
