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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Jerold Wise, 28, of Newark was sentenced today by the Honorable Alfonse J. Cifelli to life in prison for the murder of Curtis Johnson, 22, also of Newark. Wise must serve a minimum of 35 years before he is eligible for parole. On Sept. 8,…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Travis Hartsfield, Jr., 25, of Newark has been indicted for the murder of his 20-month old daughter, Asiyah Hartsfield. It is alleged that on March 15, 2011, while caring for his daughter, the father repeatedly punched the child in the head and the torso, causing…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Mary Hardaway, 38, of Newark has been charged with filing a false police report after she falsely reported her vehicle had been carjacked. On Sept. 30, Hardaway reported her 2002 Nissan Murano had been carjacked in the vicinity of Springfield and South 12th Street in…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Sharmir Modestin, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. was charged yesterday with impersonating a police officer, kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 27-year-old female exotic dancer in Irvington. The victim was kidnapped in Newark and driven to Irvington where she was sexually assaulted by two men on July…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Michael Handy, 30, of the Bronx was sentenced to 15 years in state prison by the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez, J.S.C., for fatally stabbing Darrick Farmer, 40, of Newark. On July 23, 2010, the two friends were in the lobby of Cameo, a Newark adult…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced that Saleem Wright, 25, of Irvington was sentenced today to six years in state prison by the Honorable Peter J. Vazquez, J.S.C., for the fatal hit and run of 5-year-old Julianne Vega. On July 22, 2010 the little girl was struck and killed by Wright, who was…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force arrested Luis Cruz, age 42, of Nutley and charged him in connection with the 9/17/11 hit and run death of Jodi DeSoto, 48, of Belleville. DeSoto is the widow of the…
DetailsRoyce Dedeaux, 24, who was arrested on Sept. 20, for carjacking an off-duty Newark Police Lieutenant, has been charged in a second carjacking. The victim of a carjacking on Summer and 3rd Avenues identified Dedeaux as the armed man who carjacked him for his 2011 Jaguar. The incident occurred several hours prior to the carjacking…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that detectives with the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Professional Standards/Bias Crimes Unit arrested Douglas Brown, 36, Newark. Assistant Prosecutor Portia Downing authorized harassment, bias intimidation and criminal mischief charges against Brown. In May of 2011 Brown began harassing his former neighbors, a homosexual couple living on…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’ Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force arrested Emanuel Alvarado, 26, of Belleville, and charged him with filing a false police report. On Sept. 17, at approximately 3:00 am, Alvarado reported to the Newark Police that he…
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