NEWARK, NJ — Wesley Jean-Marie, 32, of Valley Stream, N.Y., has been arrested and charged with the murder of Leeana Cottle, 21, of Newark, who was fatally shot on July 20 in Newark, according to a July 22 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Cottle was shot on the 200 block of S. […]
TRENTON, NJ — Former Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced on July 14 the arrests of 31 individuals — including a West Orange man — who are charged with sexually exploiting children online. The 31 men were arrested in “Operation 24/7,” a collaborative operation launched to address the continued spike in reports of potential threats […]
NEWARK, NJ — Nasier McCray, 23, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Jessica Hilton, 32, who was fatally stabbed on July 7 in a hotel on Clinton Avenue in Newark, where she was living; she is originally from Tennessee, according to a July 12 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. […]
NEWARK, NJ — Hassan Grimsley, 42, of Newark is in custody after a standoff that lasted more than 31 hours, according to a July 9 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. On the morning of July 8, detectives from the Essex County Narcotics Task Force, which includes detectives from Newark and throughout Essex […]
NEWARK, NJ — Fifteen people have been charged for their alleged roles in a Newark heroin and crack-cocaine distribution organization that sold hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs out of a residential building on Fairmount Avenue, acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced June 29. The alleged leader of the operation, Jakai […]
EAST ORANGE / NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced on Saturday, June 26, that two Essex County sex offenders wanted by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the New Jersey State Parole Board were captured in Pennsylvania by U.S. Marshals and task force officers from the Middle District of […]
NEWARK, NJ — Deautay M. Haines, 19, of Jersey City, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Akram Brown, 42, of Newark, according to a June 24 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. On Wednesday, May 19, Brown was shot on Mt. Vernon Place in the city of Newark. He was […]
NEWARK, NJ — A suspected member of the Bloods street gang was arrested, and two semiautomatic handguns, as well as more than $11,000 in illegal narcotics and drug proceeds, were recovered during a June 22 drug investigation, according to a June 23 press release from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that […]
NEWARK, NJ — Latysha Simmons, 29, of Newark, has been arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing death of Darien Wharton, also 29 and of Newark, according to a June 14 press release from the Essex County Prosucutor’s Office. It is alleged that Simmons fatally stabbed Wharton during an altercation at his home on […]
ROXBURY, NJ — Michael Mecca, 39, of West Orange, has been arrested in connection with a shooting incident that occurred on May 31 in Roxbury, according to a June 1 press release from the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. It is alleged that on the night of May 31, Mecca argued with the victim, at which […]