Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Two cops assaulted in arrest
Two cops assaulted in arrest EDISON — Police had their hands full arresting a man involved in a bar fight last week. Patrolman Robert Dudash said officers responded to a report of an altercation at the Corner Pocket Inn on Route 27 and Plainfield Avenue around 10 p.m. Aug. 19. After going inside and breaking…
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Three injured in separate car accidents
WOODBRIDGE — Three people were injured recently in three separate car accidents, police said. A Carteret teenager who was struck by a car while crossing Main Street was issued a summons for failing to use a crosswalk Aug. 13, police said. The incident occurred around 9:25 p.m., when a motorist traveling west on Main Street…
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Wood Avenue man arrested on assault charges
EDISON — A township man’s less than neighborly behavior landed him behind bars last week, police said. A 69-year-old Wood Avenue resident was working in his garage around 9:30 a.m. Aug. 19 when another Wood Avenue resident, James Ruggiero, 55, approached him, angry about the noise, said Patrolman Robert Dudash. Dudash said Ruggiero was holding…
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Firefighters, police officers learn to reed
Band formedto pay respectto fallen comrades BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer Band formed to pay respect to fallen comrades BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer PHOTOSBY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Above, snare drum lessons for the Middlesex County Police and Fire Pipes and Drums are under way at Royal Albert’s Palace in Fords last Wednesday. At right, Woodbridge…
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Three beat and rob Bronx man
EDISON — Police said a 26-year-old Bronx, N.Y., man was assaulted and robbed while walking to the Metuchen train station. Patrolman Robert Dudash said the victim was walking along Route 1 in the vicinity of Main Street around 1:16 a.m. Aug. 14 when three men on bicycles pulled up to him and dismounted. The men…
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Dump truck overturn kills Elizabeth man
EDISON — An Elizabeth man was killed after the dump truck he was driving struck the center divider and flipped over on the New Jersey Turnpike last Friday morning. Sgt. Gerald Lewis of the state police said Patricio Cerrano, 25, was traveling south in the outer truck lanes between interchanges 10 and 11 around 8:15…
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Man nabbed for pellet gun in car
EDISON — Police arrested a 21-year-old Rahway man on weapons charges last week. Patrolman Robert Dudash said Patrolman Ioannis Mpletsakis observed a 1989 Honda Prelude swerving between lanes on Route 1 north around 2:45 a.m. Aug. 20 and executed a motor vehicle stop. When Mpletsakis asked the driver, Cadriq McDowell, for his license, registration and…
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CIC site cleanup will be done by end of 2005
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer CIC site cleanup will be done by end of 2005 BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — An area legislator and a local environmentalist are calling a toxic site cleanup a bittersweet victory. The battle to clean up the Chemical Insecticide Corporation (CIC) Superfund site has only been partially…
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Councilman’s DWI court appearance moved
SOUTH PLAINFIELD — Edison Councilman William Kruczak has pleaded not guilty to the charges of driving while intoxicated and refusal to submit to a Breathalyzer test. The charges, lodged July 30 after an incident at Columbia Bank on Oak Tree Avenue, will be heard in Dunellen in September because of a conflict in South Plainfield,…
