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Acting 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…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department are investigating a police-involved shooting. The preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 1:13 AM today an off-duty Newark Police Officer was stopped at a red light in his personal…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Theodore Melhorn, 63, of Livingston was arrested on Thursday night for possessing child pornography. Melhorn, who owns S.A.A.F.E Alarm, a security alarm company in Livingston, inadvertently left a notebook at a customer’s home containing pornographic photographs of young males between the ages of 12 to…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that an Essex County Grand Jury has returned an 11-count indictment charging Marcus Bascus, 20, and Nicholas Welch, 26, with the murder of Seton Hall University student Jessica Moore. Moore, 19, of Disputanta, Va., was fatally shot at an off-campus party in East Orange. After being…
DetailsActing First Assistant Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino is seeking the public’s assistance in apprehending Larry B. Mote, 43, of Newark. Mote is charged with the murder of Michael Gayton, 26, of Orange. Gayton was shot multiple times and killed in Newark on Saturday, Sept. 10 when he intervened in a dispute between Mote and a…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Richard Smith, 39, of East Orange was sentenced to 30 years in New Jersey State Prison for the murder of Charles David Mathis, 24, of Newark. Mathis was fatally stabbed on Dec. 18, 2006 at St. John’s Masonic Lodge located at 428 Central Ave in…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio announced today that two people were shot and killed in Newark overnight. Dechania Edwards, 23, of Newark was fatally shot in the vicinity of 176-178 12th Avenue at approximately 11:16 last night. Police responding to the scene discovered the victim on the…
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