Tag: Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office
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Member of Vonthun family killed in hit-and-run
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Authorities are actively searching for the driver who fled after striking a 49-year-old bicyclist on Route 522 in South Brunswick on Dec. 13. The deceased bicyclist was identified as Ronald Vonthun, 49, of South Brunswick. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where he was pronounced…
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First veteran graduates from diversion program through Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office
A veteran of the U.S. Army is the first person to graduate from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO) Veteran’s Diversion Program (VDP). The MCPO established the VDP for active and former service members who are charged with nonviolent third and fourth degree offenses and who are suffering from a mental health condition, according to…
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Fords couple discovered dead in apparent murder-suicide
WOODBRIDGE – A 78-year-old man and his 77-year-old wife were found deceased in their residence in the Fords section of Woodbridge in an apparent murder-suicide. Woodbridge police responded to the single-family home at 17 Kilfoyle Ave. at 8:52 a.m. on Dec. 6 when they found Joanne Perhacs with a single gunshot wound to the head,…
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Criminal charge brought in Metuchen motorcycle crash
METUCHEN – A Metuchen man has been charged in the Nov. 21 motorcycle crash in which a man from Piscataway was seriously injured. Anthony Bing, 38, was charged with aggravated assault, an assault by auto occurring in the vicinity of a school zone, a crime of the second degree, according to a statement provided by…
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Old Bridge police continuing to investigate motor vehicle crash
OLD BRIDGE – Police are continuing to investigate a motor vehicle crash that left a 71-year-old man in critical condition, according to Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet and Old Bridge Police Chief William Volkert. The investigation began after police were dispatched to the scene of the crash on Route 18 near Ferry Road…
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Five adult day care employees, facility in East Brunswick indicted in the abuse of two disabled clients
Broadway Respite and Home Care, along with five of its employees, were charged in an indictment for crimes involving the abuse of two adults who attended daycare at the facility. A grand jury returned an indictment on Nov. 11, charging Broadway Respite and Home Care, located on Edgeboro Road in East Brunswick, with…
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South Carolina man indicted in Edison Speedway murder
A man from South Carolina was indicted on Nov. 12 for the armed robbery and murder that took place at the Speedway Gas Station in Edison on Dec. 20, 2018. Macus A. Wright, 23, of Beaufort, South Carolina, was indicted for first degree murder, first degree felony murder, first degree armed robbery, conspiracy to commit…
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Second victim identified in fatal Jamesburg fire
JAMESBURG – A 53-year-old man has been identified as the second victim whose body was found during a Jamesburg fire on Nov. 6. Gregory Fischer, 53, of Jamesburg, has been identified by the Middlesex Regional Medical Examiner’s Office as the second victim in the fire at a home he resided in on Sheridan Street. The…
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Woodbridge man charged with the aggravated assault and murder of roommate
A Woodbridge man has been charged with the aggravated assault and murder of his 32-year-old roommate. Corne Dionisio, 33, of Woodbridge, was charged on Nov. 9 with first-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault in the second degree, and two counts of aggravated assault in the third degree in the murder of…
