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Jury Finds Final Schoolyard Murder Defendant Guilty

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyNovember 9, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County jury convicted Gerardo Gomez, 20, of Newark of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for his role the Aug. 4, 2007 triple murder at the Mount Vernon school yard in Newark. Following a six-week trial before the Honorable…

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Two Found Guilty of Home Invasion Murder

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyNovember 5, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County jury convicted Derrick Miller, 24, and Arthur Thompson, 31, both of Newark of murdering Anthony Hunt, 47, of Irvington. On Jan. 18, 2010 Hunt was fatally shot three times inside his Brighton Terrace residence. Hunt was home with his family when the…

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Man Convicted of Murder and Attempted Murder

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 22, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County jury convicted Maurice Mosley, 22, of Newark of murdering 29-year-old Douglas Brown, also of Newark. On July 16, 2011 Mosley approached a van in the vicinity of Orange and Gray Streets in Newark in which two women and Brown were occupants. Mosley…

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Two Males Charged with Sexually Assaulting College Student

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 16, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura announced today that a juvenile and an adult male have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young woman at Irvington Park. The victim, an 18-year-old college student, was returning from night classes at approximately 6:40 p.m. yesterday. When…

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Former Verona Mayor Sentenced to 7 Years for Stealing $750,000

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 15, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that the Honorable Sherry A. Hutchins-Henderson, J.S.C., sentenced Matthew Kirnan, 52, of Ramsey to 7 years in state prison for three counts of theft by deception. On July 18, 2012, Kirnan, a disbarred attorney and former mayor of Verona, pleaded guilty to stealing $750,000 from three…

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Man Arrested for Vehicular Homicide in Death of Bloomfield Teen

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 11, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Bloomfield Police Chief Christopher Goul announced today that Nicholas M. Camasco, 23, of Bloomfield has been charged with vehicular homicide and aggravated assault by auto in connection with the motor vehicle collision that resulted in the death of 16-year-old Christina Lembo, also of Bloomfield. Camasco turned himself…

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Two Arrested in Fatal Shooting at Grocery Store in Newark

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 11, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that two males have been arrested and charged with the murder of Jamil Bader, Jr., 18, of Newark. Tyrique Spruell, 21, and a 16-year-old juvenile, both of Newark, were arrested and charged with murder. Spruell was arrested late last night.…

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Man Arrested for Murder of Newark Woman

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 9, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today Virgil Suggs, 42, of Newark has been arrested and charged with the murder of Bronique McLeod, 24, of Newark. McLeod was shot while sitting in a vehicle in the 300 block of Hawthorne Avenue in Newark at approximately 11:28 p.m.…

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Newark Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Girlfriend

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 9, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Sahad Byrd, 23, of Newark pleaded guilty before the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez to aggravated manslaughter for killing his girlfriend, Chiquitah Mayes, 21, also of Newark. On April 8, 2011 Byrd fatally stabbed Mayes at her grandmother’s Treacy Avenue home in Newark as she was…

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Man Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Handicapped Teenager

UncategorizedBy jgerfoskyOctober 9, 2012

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that the Honorable Judge Peter Ryan, J.S.C., sentenced Robert Johnson, 46, of Newark to eight years in New Jersey State Prison for sexually assaulting a developmentally delayed 14-year-old girl in the bathroom at a Rutgers University library in Newark. On Feb. 24, 2011, three days after…

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