NUTLEY, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Nutley Police Chief Thomas J. Strumolo announced Dec. 15 that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Nutley Police Department are investigating the murder of Barbara Ann Bezzone, 84, of Nutley. On Tuesday, Dec. 14, at approximately 8:21 p.m., […]
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 Cornell Daniels, 44, of Irvington, according to a Dec. 13 press release from the ECPO. On Sunday, Dec. 12, there were reports of gunshots fired on Stuyvesant Avenue in […]
NEWARK, NJ — Ashton D. Barthelus, 26, of Carteret, has been charged with the murder of Dan G. Milford Gelin, 27, of Elizabeth, according to a Dec. 9 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. It is alleged that Barthelus fatally stabbed Gelin at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark. Gelin was transported […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced Dec. 1 that 18-year-old Zion Jenkins and a 16-year-old female juvenile have been arrested in East Orange and charged with receiving stolen property. According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, the preliminary investigation indicates that on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at approximately 8:22 […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating a quadruple shooting that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Djiba Kaba and non–life-threatening injuries to three other teenagers — another male and two females — who were also shot, according to a […]
NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced Nov. 24 that Newark Police Officer Louis Santiago, 25, of Bloomfield, has been charged with reckless vehicular homicide, desecrating human remains and related charges for hitting a pedestrian on the Garden State Parkway, leaving the scene, then coming back and putting the victim […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the death of 17-year-old Yashawn A. Hansen, of Newark, according to a Nov. 22 press release from the ECPO. On Nov. 16, Newark police responded to Quitman Street in Newark on a report […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the death of Altamir Mayweather, 17, of Newark, according to a Nov. 19 press release from the ECPO. On Nov. 16, Newark police were dispatched to the Oscar Miles Housing Complex in the […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the death of Michael Brown, 63, of East Orange, according to a Nov. 19 press release from the ECPO. On Nov. 17 at approximately 12:22 a.m., Newark police were dispatched to the 500 […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The night of Nov. 11, the East Orange teenager who had been missing for four weeks was spotted in New York City — just one day before a scheduled candlelight vigil praying for the 14-year-old’s safe return. The teenager, a runaway, had been staying at a women’s shelter in Brooklyn. In […]