Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Two charged with lying about drinking death

    Police were told video didn’t exist, but it was found posted on Internet BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Two women have been charged with obstruction of justice for giving false statements to police regarding the death of Daniel Gjertson, a Monroe resident who was found dead at a…

  • Gun fired during robbery

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – Two men who fled the scene of an armed robbery were later apprehended by police and arrested on robbery and weapon charges. Rahsaan Anderson, 22, and Akeem Handy, 30, both of New Brunswick, allegedly approached two attendants of the Gulf station on Georges Road on Jan. 27. Around 8 a.m., the two…

  • Search leads to drug charges

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – A resident of Birchwood Court was arrested for drug possession during the execution of a search warrant at the North Brunswick Manor Apartments on Jan. 26. At 3:45 p.m. the North Brunswick Anti-Crime Unit and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force arrested Naiam Earl, 30, for possession of cocaine, distribution…

  • Bank robber flees on bike

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – The PNC bank on Georges Road was the scene of an armed robbery around 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 25. According to police, a medium-size male wearing all black clothing and a ski mask entered the facility and brandished a silver handgun. He hopped over the half-door inside the bank and demanded money…

  • School basing Holocaust trunk on county example

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – To preserve the memory of the Holocaust, Linwood Middle School is beginning to create its own Traveling Trunk similar to the ones designed by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission to preserve the history of the nation’s wars. Seventh-grade teacher Marian Felberbaum…

  • Board wary of temple’s parking accommodations

    Applicants say Hindu sect will rarely assemble in large numbers BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The township Zoning Board continued to deliberate on a Hindu temple proposed for Route 27 in Kendall Park during the Jan. 25 meeting. The temple is being proposed by an organization called Bharat…

  • Police find Alzheimer’s sufferer walking in cold

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 73-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease wandered off from his home into the freezing cold on Wednesday, but was swiftly found by local police. Charles Tucker, a Kendall Park resident, was reported missing by his 75-year-old wife around 7 p.m., when temperatures were…

  • Police recognize most impressive feats of year

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The township Police Department held an awards dinner Saturday to recognize its top cops for 2006. Members of the department met at Pierre’s on Georges Road, where 11 police officers and three civilians were commended for their work. The three civilians, who asked…

  • Local congressmen promise practical agenda

    Say political retribution will not be a goal of the new Democratic majority BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer “Ithink we are really interested in moving legislation for the benefit of the American people.” – Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) With Democrats holding the majority for the first time in 12 years, three…