Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Teen is victim of attack, robbery

    EDISON — Police are looking for a man who punched a teenager standing on his porch and stole his wallet and cell phone. The 16-year-old victim was on the porch of his Stone Hedge Road home with a 16-year-old female on Aug. 7, when a gold Ford Taurus pulled up in front of the home.…

  • Two men charged in attempted car theft

    EDISON — Police arrested two area men after a resident reportedly spotted them trying to pry the steering wheel off a car parked on Horizon Drive. Police arrested Taurean Downing, 20, of Edison, and Evan Robinson, 19, of Piscataway, and charged them with burglary, criminal attempt and possession of burglar’s tools on Aug. 6, Patrolman…

  • Local teen arrested for robbery, resisting arrest

    EDISON – Police have charged a township teen with robbery and resisting arrest, following an incident at a local shopping center. The teen was one of five who approached a 40-year-old Edison man in front of the Kumon Learning Center at the Inman & Grove Shopping Center at 7:13 p.m. Aug. 5. “They were described…

  • Mayor blames pensions, debt service for tax hike

    Metuchen municipal purposes tax rate to rise by 8.6 cents BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer After nearly a decade of stability, Metuchen municipal taxes for 2005 will rise $145 for a home assessed at the borough average, officials said. “As a result of a number of factors, not the least of…

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    JAY BODAS Union County College sophomore Theresa Paulmenn helps Morgan Kravarik, 10, of Edison, to cut red potatoes at Dan’s on Main restaurant in Metuchen. Tyler Disney, 9, checks out the rest of the action in the kitchen.

  • J.P. Stevens dropout headed to state prison

    Ex-student sabotaged online sellers with computer virus BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer A 17-year-old Edison teen was sentenced to up to five years in state prison for his part in an online hacking scam. State Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa also sentenced Jasmine Singh, Tingley Lane, to make restitution…

  • Cutting down the wait for a new chance at life

    Two survivors travel the state to encourage organ donation registrations BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer JAY BODAS Jessica Melore (r) helps Johnson and Johnson employee Maria Belonis (l) complete an organ donor registration card at the company’s headquarters in New Brunswick last week. It takes only a minute to give the…

  • Township helps to promote organ donation

    Woodbridge officials have joined with the New Jersey Sharing Network (NJSN) to promote the Workplace Partnership for Life initiative to encourage organ donor registration. “Thousands of people die needlessly each year due to a lack of available donated organs,” said Mayor Frank G. Pelzman. “Our goal is to help people in simple steps they can…

  • Rutgers student’s death still under investigation

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Police don’t suspect any foul play in the death of a 20-year-old Rutgers University student found dead in an off-campus house last week. “It doesn’t appear suspicious, but we won’t know until the autopsy results are forwarded to us,” Sgt. Richard…