UNION COUNTY — A Michigan woman has been charged with multiple criminal offenses after engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a Union County juvenile over the course of more than a year, having first made contact with the victim online when he was 11, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced. Jessica Carlton, 44, of Grand Rapids, Mich., […]
WESTFIELD, NJ — The Westfield Police Department is looking for a missing man, 75-year-old James Flynn of Westfield. Flynn was reported missing from his residence on the 400 block of West Broad Street in Westfield late on Wednesday, April 29. Flynn’s daughter spoke with him at 5:30 p.m. that day and planned to meet him at his […]
TRENTON – A Middlesex County, lawyer and certified public accountant was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison for conspiring with a New Jersey mortgage broker to extort and defraud victims by falsely representing to them that they were the subjects of criminal investigations, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Thomas G. Frey, 55, of Edison, previously pleaded […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that a medical doctor from Union County pleaded guilty today to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone. He was arrested in January on charges he conspired with a drug dealer and others to distribute thousands of high-dose oxycodone pills by writing false prescriptions for individuals he […]
PLAINFIELD — Acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park has announced one of the two men responsible for the 2010 robbery and murder of a Plainfield taxi driver has been sentenced to 45 years in state prison for the crime. Jonathan Morgan, 28, must serve at least 85 percent of that term – a total of more than […]
NEWARK – The owner of a home health agency admitted on Tuesday her role in a $7 million scheme to defraud Medicaid and engage in bribery, money laundering, and tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Irina Krutoyarsky, 61, of Springfield, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden in Newark federal court to an information that charged […]
NEWARK — A Union County, tax preparer with an office in Essex County, was arrested Monday on charges of aiding and abetting in the filing of two dozen false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Darlene Covington, 31, of Hillside, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 10, and charged with 24 counts of aiding and […]
UNION COUNTY – Residents and travelers are reminded to be aware of temporary traffic pattern changes related to the replacement of the Goethels Bridge. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is undertaking the project, has provided the following information for Friday night, April 24: On Friday April 24th, starting at 11 p.m. and […]
NEWARK — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray has announced that an Essex County jury has convicted Richard Whatley, 21, of Hillside of passion provocation manslaughter for fatally shooting Teshon Clegg, 32, of Newark during a family barbecue on Memorial Day in 2013. Assistant Prosecutor Jamel Semper, who tried the case, said on May 27, 2013, Whatley and […]
ELIZABETH — Acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced today that authorities are investigating the shooting of a man found dead in Elizabeth Wednesday evening. The shooting victim, a Hispanic male believed to be in his late teens or early 20s, has yet to be identified. Police responding to a 911 call indicating the discovery of […]