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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.…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that a 17-year-old Nutley youth was charged with possession of child pornography today, a felony. The juvenile, whose name is not being released because of his age, was charged following an investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Cyber Crime Unit. Investigators from the Essex County…
DetailsActing 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…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that an Essex County Grand Jury has returned a four-count indictment today charging three men with the murder of Edgardo Ruiz, 42, of Newark. Rafael M Velez, 26, of Newark, Anthony Ruiz, 31, of Newark and Adrian Torres, 35, Elizabeth were all charged with the murder…
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