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Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that Jose Reyes, 35, of Newark has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison for sexually assaulting three young boys. At the time of his arrest, Reyes was employed as the manager at the Can Do Fitness Center, located at 750 Morris and Essex Turnpike…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has issued a warrant for the arrest of Oquan Blake, 24, of Newark. Blake is wanted for the murder and sexual assault of Dalaysia Rhymer, a 7-month-old baby girl. She is the daughter of a woman Blake dated. The mother left…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced the arrest of Terique Ganes, 32, of Irvington and Vetosa Smith, 31, Newark for the armed robbery of an attendant at the Gulf gas station located at 1444 Stuyvesant Avenue, Union at approximately 1:38 p.m. today. The suspects used a red Honda Accord. They pulled into…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that an Essex County Grand Jury returned a 29-count indictment against former Seton Hall University basketball players Kelly Whitney, 27, of Chicago and Robert Mitchell, 23, of Brooklyn. They are charged with eight counts of kidnapping, eight counts of aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and weapons offenses.…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced the arrests of three men in connection with the fatal stabbing of Malik Denny, 34, of East Orange. Jorge Santana Peralda, 22, of Irvington has been charged with Denny’s murder. Wilber Duran Reyes, 20, of Newark has been charged with aggravated assault and the unlawful possession…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced Jose Max Mari, Jr., 28, of Clifton has been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault upon an incapacitated person, aggravated assault and criminal restraint. It is alleged that in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 19, 2010 Mari was seen putting an unknown substance…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced Raheem Walker, 20, of Newark is wanted in connection with the police involved shooting in Newark on Monday, June 21, 2010. Walker has been charged with robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses. Walkers’ co-conspirator Jahad Phillips, 19, of Newark was fatally shot by a Newark Police officer.…
DetailsRecently a news organization published a photograph of a Megan’s Law sex offender. The photograph was taken from a flier distributed by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office to schools, day care centers, businesses and families. Because re-publication of the photograph is a violation of the law, we thought this would be a good time to…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that Everett Rand, 40, of Newark has been arrested for the murder of David Payton, 39, of Newark. Rand was also charged with weapons offenses, possession of heroin, and possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school. Payton was found in an unoccupied…
DetailsActing Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced an Essex County Grand Jury returned a five-count indictment charging Jose A. Beltran, 49, with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. In the early morning hours of Dec. 18, 2009, Beltran was driving a black Lincoln Navigator, on the Garden State Parkway in Irvington when…
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