converge on Freehold
apartment for look
Details
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on incident
Police, prosecutor
converge on Freehold
apartment for look
By clare marie celano
Staff Writer
JERRY WOLKOWITZ Law enforcement officials converge on an apartment at 39 East Main Street, Freehold, on Friday. Police were initially called to the scene for a missing person report, but it remained unclear on Monday what, if anything, happened at the scene.
Crime scene tape was up around 39 E. Main St. on Friday, but no one is saying if a crime was committed at that location in the heart of Freehold Borough’s downtown business district.
Freehold Borough police Capt. Michael DiAiso said Monday that there is an active investigation involving a missing person.
By mid-morning Friday, Freehold Borough police officers and investigators from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office had responded to the scene. A borough police officer stood guard on East Main Street in front of the entrance to an upstairs apartment.
Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye told the News Transcript that borough police had been called to the scene early in the day on a report of a missing Hispanic female.
Later that morning, he said, police received another call reporting that a woman was seen throwing clothing out of the window into a narrow alley.
When police officers arrived, according to Kaye, they found articles of clothing and boots that were stained with blood. The prosecutor said the officers observed what could have been "stab holes" in a shirt.
He stressed that the officers were not certain the markings were stab holes.
Kaye said law enforcement officials were required to wait several hours before a search warrant was able to be obtained and entry to the apartment could be gained. During the waiting time, he said, borough police took residents of the building to police headquarters for questioning.
The area in front of the apartment entrance at 39 East Main Street was sectioned off with plastic yellow tape that had "Crime Scene — Do Not Cross" printed on it, while borough police officers stood guard at the location.
A search warrant was obtained at about 1:15 p.m., allowing police to enter the building for investigation, according to a representative from the prosecutor’s office at the scene.
Kaye said Monday that there was nothing new to report on the situation.