ELIZABETH — A Union County grand jury has returned indictments against the Elizabeth man accused of murdering his wife last February, then hiding her body in a vacant home and reporting her missing, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced. Abayuba Rivas, 40, was indicted Friday on charges of murder, two weapons offenses, desecration of human remains, endangering the […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that 18 men were indicted by a state grand jury for allegedly operating a major weapons trafficking ring based in Newark that was illegally selling numerous guns, including high-powered assault rifles. The primary target of the investigation faces many counts of first-degree unlawful possession of a weapon. […]
PLAINFIELD — A Plainfield man has been sentenced to 16 years in state prison for brutally attacking a police officer without warning on a city street in 2012, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced. Andre Henderson, who was 35 at the time of the attack, must serve at least 85 percent of the sentence prior to […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman and Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi announced that the husband and wife owners of temporary staffing companies with offices in northern and central New Jersey were arrested yesterday on first-degree charges. The couple and a co-defendant allegedly grossly underreported the number of employees their companies outsourced, and […]
WASHINGTON — Cong. Leonard Lance, NJ-07, announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $500,000 in its 2015 Work Plan for the Rahway River Basin Flood Risk Management Feasibility Study. The funding would cover a significant portion of the estimated $1.2 million needed to complete the entire study and comes after years of advocacy from Lance […]
SPRINGFIELD — An instructor who formerly worked at a Springfield martial arts academy has admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old enrollee there, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced yesterday. Appearing before state Superior Court Judge William Daniel, George Mendoza-Valentino, 28, of Saddle Brook pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of second-degree sexual assault. Mendoza-Valentino had been […]
ELIZABETH — A third suspect has been identified, arrested, and charged in connection with an attempted robbery that resulted in the death of a Brooklyn man in Elizabeth last fall, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced Monday. Travis M. Picou, 36, of Paterson turned himself in to members of the Union County Homicide Task Force on […]
TRENTON – A New York man admitted on Monday, Jan. 26 to participating in armed robberies of electronics stores in New Jersey, including armed robberies in Linden, Paramus, and Woodbridge, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced . Eric Williams, 34, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson in Trenton federal court to a superseding information that […]
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 […]