MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Saturday, March 12, at approximately 3:45 p.m., the Maplewood Police Department’s dispatch received multiple calls of gunshots in the 80 block of Tiffany Place, according to a March 13 press release from the department. As a result, officers responded to the area and located a female standing near a Honda Accord, […]
NEWARK, NJ — Maurice Bethea, 54, of Newark, was sentenced March 10 to nine years in prison for conspiring to obtain mortgage loans to finance the sale of properties to unqualified buyers, securities fraud by inducing a victim into investing more than $1.2 million into real estate companies under false pretenses, and violation of supervised […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Police Department announced March 10 that they are investigating a fatal pedestrian incident that occurred on Route 1 and 9 in Newark on March 10. The preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 4:45 a.m. on March 10, Garry Robinson, 60, […]
MONTCLAIR / WEST ORANGE, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced March 10 that the male found dead on a hiking trail at Eagle Rock Reservation on the West Orange and Montclair border has been identified as Kelsey Steels, 31, of New York City. The preliminary investigation indicates the victim was […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — A West Orange man employed as a food services contractor in a high school in East Hanover was arrested March 10 for distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced March 10. Ezra W. Saphire, 29, is charged by complaint with one count of distribution of child […]
NEWARK, NJ — A Newark man with a previous felony conviction made his initial appearance in court on March 7 on a criminal complaint charging him with two counts of illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, the first count related to a June 2021 shooting in Newark, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced March 7. […]
NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara announced March 10 that Deandre Smith, 36, of Newark, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Newark resident Frankie Fields, 30, who was fatally shot in Newark on March 7. Smith is charged with […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the fatal shooting of Sharique J. Ray, 28, of Newark, according to a March 9 press release from the ECPO. On Tuesday, March 8, Ray was shot on Huntington Terrace in Newark. He […]
TRENTON, NJ — Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced March 4 a new indictment in an investigation by the New Jersey State Police Auto Theft Task Force and Division of Criminal Justice that targeted members of an auto theft ring that burglarized car dealerships in Essex, Hudson, Bergen and Union counties, taking key fobs […]
NEWARK, NJ — An Essex County jury has convicted Jeremy Arrington, 31, of a triple murder, according to a March 5 press release from the ECPO. He was convicted of murdering a female college student, as well as two children. The two children, Ariel Little Whitehurst, age 7, and her 11-year-old brother, Al-Jahon Whitehurst, were […]