Tag: Edison Police Department

  • Appeals court upholds decision in Edison case

    Appeals court upholds decision in Edison case

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — A state appeals court has upheld a lower court decision involving a resident’s suit against four Edison police officers. The Appellate Division of  the Superior Court of New Jersey affirmed the decision of “no cause of action” in a jury trial of a township resident’s civil suit against…

  • Indicted Edison cop may receive unemployment

    Indicted Edison cop may receive unemployment

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — An acting lieutenant and 22-year veteran of the Edison Police Department — suspended without pay after his alleged involvement to retaliate against a North Brunswick police officer, who arrested another individual for drunk driving — is entitled to receive unemployment compensation benefits, according to a decision by the Appellate…

  • Local police departments send representatives to Dallas funerals

    Local police departments send representatives to Dallas funerals

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Two Edison police officers represented the 185-member Edison Police Department as well as the entire community last week when they attended the funeral services for the five Dallas police officers  who were killed in the line of duty on July 7. The two officers, who Police Chief Thomas…

  • Edison mourns death of boy on skateboard

    Edison mourns death of boy on skateboard

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Schools Superintendent Richard O’Malley said district grief counselors and counselors from Rutgers Behavioral Health have been on hand this week at Lincoln Elementary School as the district mourns the loss of a fifth-grade student who was fatally struck by a motor vehicle last week. Askari Moore, 11, of…