ELIZABETH, NJ — An Elizabeth man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal stabbing and kidnapping that took place Saturday morning, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced. Saloman Rosendo Gomez-Serpas, 23, is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and a second-degree weapons offense following the death of 30-year-old Mario Ortiz of Elizabeth. […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — A Union County jury has returned a guilty verdict against an Elizabeth man who robbed a security guard of several hundred dollars in 2014, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced. Carl Dixon, 27, was convicted of second-degree robbery and simple assault after several hours of jury deliberation spread over two days following a […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — An Elizabeth resident is accused of killing his girlfriend in her home on Easter Sunday, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced. Arturo Alomas, 33, is charged with a single count of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 26-year-old Trenice Johnson. Police responded to the Mravlag Manor housing complex in Elizabeth […]
ELIZABETH — A Union County jury has returned guilty verdicts against a Hillside man for shooting two people, one fatally, four years ago, Acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced. Jonathan James, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, and second-degree possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — A Linden man has been charged in connection with an alcohol-related fatal accident that took place in December, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park has announced. Antonio Rodriguez, 46, is charged with a single count of second-degree death by auto for causing the wreck that killed 51-year-old Carlos Arce of Elizabeth. At approximately 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, […]
ELIZABETH — A Linden man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal hit-and-run automobile crash that took place during the weekend on the New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park and New Jersey State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes jointly announced on Monday. William Espinal-Mejia, 35, is charged with a single count […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — A Berkeley Heights man has been sentenced to six years in state prison for stealing more than $4 million from his Elizabeth-based employer over the course of nearly a decade, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced. Albert Thomson, 54, was sentenced Friday before state Superior Court Judge Frederic McDaniel. Thomson was arrested […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A pair of doctors with roots in Elizabeth and Westfield were charged with fraud last week, as federal and state prosecutors allege that they have been repeatedly submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid in violation of the False Claims Act. A neurologist with a practice in Elizabeth, Gautam Sehgal was charged […]
Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless says 1,200 are without a home
ELIZABETH, NJ — Record crowds lined up at St. Joseph’s Social Service Center in Elizabeth on Wednesday, Jan. 27, as the city’s Coalition to House the Homeless provided the area’s unsheltered population with health screenings, clothes, hot soup and more in the organization’s most well-attended annual service fair ever. More than 130 people were helped […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — An Elizabeth man was sentenced Nov. 16 to 22 years in prison for robbing seven New Jersey banks at gunpoint and attempting to rob an eighth bank at the time of his arrest on July 30, 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Claude Williams, 64, had previously pleaded guilty before U.S. […]