Tag: Middlesex County Superior Court

  • Edison convenience store employee charged with stealing $1 million lottery ticket

    Edison convenience store employee charged with stealing $1 million lottery ticket

    NEW BRUNSWICK — A 36-year-old Edison convenience store employee has been charged with stealing a $1 million lottery ticket from a customer last year. Rayhan Sorwar, an Edison resident, was charged on Jan. 26 with one count of theft of moveable property over $75,000 in the second degree, one count of conspiracy to commit money…

  • Families celebrate Adoption Day

    Families celebrate Adoption Day

    NEW BRUNSWICK — Since Noah Rosado was four-years-old, Rick Rosado stepped in as a father figure. Fast forward 13 years later, Noah and Rick are father and son, which was made official during National Adoption Day held at the Middlesex County Courthouse on Nov. 14. Jenny Perez-Rosado said her son Noah had always written “Rosado”…

  • Woman wanted on gun charge allegedly found with heroin at motel

    Woman wanted on gun charge allegedly found with heroin at motel

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Police forced entry into a motel room in South Brunswick to find a woman allegedly in possession of heroin. South Brunswick police received information that a wanted suspect was staying at the La Mirage Motel on Route 1. Officer James Kraivec, Officer Martin Halmi and Sgt. Ken Herman went to the motel…

  • Trio sentenced in murder of Edison man

    NEW BRUNSWICK — Three men have been sentenced for their roles in fatally beating a 28-year-old Edison man in 2011. Michael Doce, 36, of the Colonia section of Woodbridge, was sentenced to 30 years in New Jersey state prison, by Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves. Doce is required to spend 30 years behind…

  • Edison man charged in business scam

    NEW BRUNSWICK — An Edison man was charged with allegedly using more than $150,000 from people he entered into business with for personal gain at restaurants, bars and to pay personal bills, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Director Anthony A. Caputo of the New Brunswick Police Department. Weide “David” Dai, 37,…

  • Case closes as husband faces prison, wife enters PTI

    Even after indictments detailed a story of revenge, deceit, and misconduct by former Edison Police Officer Michael Dotro, his wife, Alycia, who faced a number of charges herself, remained by her husband’s side every step of the way. Often times the pair would sit close together, chit chatting quietly with one another, as they waited…

  • Dotro pleads guilty

    EDISON — Former Edison police officer Michael A. Dotro will have to serve 17 years in state prison before becoming eligible for parole as part of a plea deal with the state for fire bombing the Monroe home of his superior officer in 2013 and a whole host of other pending indictments that were levied…

  • Elizabeth man sentenced to prison for beating woman

    EDISON — An Elizabeth man was sentenced to eight years in New Jersey state prison for severely beating a 30-year-old woman with a section of pipe and leaving her for dead at Raritan Center in Edison, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey. Mickey Vanderpool, 61, must serve 85 percent of the prison term before…

  • Old Bridge officials disagree on affordable housing obligations

    Old Bridge officials disagree on affordable housing obligations

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Council members’ opinions differed on a decision to grant approval to Old Bridge’s updated affordable housing plan. The Township Council discussed Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Arnold L. Natali Jr.’s decision to grant final approval of the township’s 1999 to 2025 Housing Element and Fair Share Housing Plan.…