NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a nonfatal police-involved shooting that occurred during the overnight hours on Pulaski Street in Newark, according to an Aug. 13 press release from the ECPO. The preliminary investigation indicates an off-duty corrections officer discharged his weapon after a patron at a bar pulled a weapon […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating a fatal motor vehicle incident, according to an Aug. 12 press release from the ECPO. On Wednesday, Aug. 11, at approximately 4 p.m., Calvin Cross, 34, of Jersey City, sustained fatal injuries in […]
NEWARK, NJ — An Essex County jury has convicted Harold Colbert, 45, of Irvington, of murder for fatally shooting Daquan Cuttino, 25, of Newark, according to an Aug. 9 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Following a trial before Superior Court Judge Martin Cronin, Colbert was found guilty of murder, unlawful possession of […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced on Aug. 6 that a 20-year-old Newark man had been arrested and charged with the June 6 murder of Moussa Fofana, an 18-year-old Maplewood resident and Columbia High School junior. Yohan Hernandez was charged with murder, aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Police Department gave out $23,690 to people who turned in 142 guns during Aug. 7’s gun buyback event, hosted in collaboration with the N.J. Attorney General’s Office, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church. U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who is sponsoring a bill […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the fatal shooting of Prince Sweeney, 35, of East Orange, according to an Aug. 9 press release from the ECPO. A little after midnight on Aug. 9, East Orange patrol units were dispatched to […]
WEST CALDWELL, NJ — Anthony Dattoli, 18, of West Caldwell, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, vehicular aggravated assault while intoxicated in a school zone, leaving the scene of an accident and endangering an injured victim, according to an Aug. 3 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. It is alleged that on […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Maplewood Police Chief Jimmy DeVaul announced Aug. 6 that Yohan Hernandez, 20, of Newark, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Moussa Fofana, 18, of Maplewood. On Sunday, June 6, at approximately 9:38 p.m., Maplewood police officers were dispatched to an […]
NEWARK, NJ — Lamont Stephenson, 46, has been sentenced to 31 and a half years in New Jersey State Prison for the murder of his fiancee, Olga “Ivy” DeJesus, and her dog, according to a July 29 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. On June 17, Stephenson entered a guilty plea to first-degree […]
NEWARK, NJ — Austin Be-Kwao, 23, of Newark, has been charged with robbing, carjacking and sexually assaulting a 55-year-old Newark woman, according to a July 28 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. In July of 2019, the victim told police she was driving home from church and stopped to use an ATM on […]