UNION COUNTY — The Board of Chosen Freeholders is reminding residents that five Union County parks are designated for sledding: Briant Park in Summit. Echo Lake Park at the “Summer Arts Hill” near Springfield Avenue in Westfield. Lenape Park in Cranford in areas that are not close to waterways. Meisel Park in Springfield, in the detention […]
NEWARK — NJ Transit operations, customer service and police personnel are taking steps to minimize delays, and ensure service reliability and safety due to the approaching winter storm. All customers are strongly advised to check njtransit.com before traveling for up-to-the-minute service information before starting their trip. To give customers additional travel options during the expected winter […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that the former production manager for the Music, Dance and Theater Department at New Jersey City University was sentenced to prison today for embezzling $87,587 in box office receipts from university performances. Kathleen Peet, 37, of Rochelle Park — formerly Kathleen Sarmiento — was sentenced to three years […]
ELIZABETH — A Union County jury has convicted an Elizabeth man of murdering his wife a little more than three years ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced today. The jury deliberated for a matter of hours over the course of two days following an approximately three-week trial before state Superior Court Judge Robert Mega, […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that three additional individuals were charged criminally today with filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to Superstorm Sandy. Since March 2014, the Attorney General’s Office has filed criminal charges against 23 people for allegedly engaging in this type of fraud, including the three individuals charged […]
TRENTON – A regional manager selling medical devices to hospitals for Integra LifeSciences Corp. of Plainsboro, New Jersey, was sentenced to prison today for his role in a scheme to defraud hospitals of more than $800,000, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Daniel Metz, 34, of Fairfield, was sentenced to nine months in prison and nine months of home […]
TRENTON — The New Jersey State Comptroller’s office released a report today concerning an investigation which found that Union County paid in excess of $1.5 million over a four-year period to a non-profit agency that produced a biannual newsletter and little else in return for the public’s money. The agency, Union County Alliance, relied almost entirely on public funding but operated with […]
LINDEN — Linden Police responded this morning to Solar Compounds, 1201 W. Blancke St., on a report of an industrial accident. A male employee, 50, was working with a non-toxic liquid asphalt when a pump malfunctioned and it splattered the man with the hot material. The employee was wearing, goggles, gloves, and layers of protective clothing, however, he […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that a medical doctor from Union County has been arrested on charges he conspired with a drug dealer and others to illegally distribute thousands of high-dose pills of the addictive painkiller oxycodone by writing fraudulent prescriptions for individuals he never treated or examined. Dr. Eugene Evans Jr., […]
ELIZABETH — A Union County grand jury has returned indictments against the two men charged with killing a Brooklyn resident last fall after an attempt to rob him went awry, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced. Ali Garner, 28, and Keon Lewis, 30, both of Elizabeth, were indicted Tuesday on charges of first-degree felony murder, first-degree […]