Tag: Middlesex County Superior Court
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Former Edison cop, wife face prison
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — An August trial date has been set in a case against former Edison Police Officer Michael Dotro, who is charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to his police captain’s home in Monroe in 2013. Dotro, with his Westfield-based attorney Robert Norton, appeared before Superior Court…
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Legal battles continue for Edison officer
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Former Edison Police Officer Michael Dotro, charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to his police captain’s home in Monroe Township in 2013, has won a small battle in his defense. In a 12-page decision made public on Feb. 27, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court…
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Judge wants arson, murder trial to begin in spring
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Calling the case “old,” Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Pedro Jimenez, sitting in New Brunswick, called on the state and the attorney for former Edison Police Officer Michael Dotro to get discovery and other issues in order regarding charges relating to attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to…
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Former Edison cops avoid probation
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Once pillars of society, two of the four Edison police officers who lost their jobs for their involvement in attempting to harass and humiliate a North Brunswick police officer in 2012, may move on with their lives. With no prior records, Brian Favretto, 41, who once was…
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Two police officers sentenced for harassing North Brunswick cop
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Superior Court Judge Joseph Paone handed fines to two of the four Edison police officers who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges for their involvement in harassing and humiliating a North Brunswick police officer in 2012. Brian Favretto, of Brick, and William H. Gesell, of…
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Juror attends convicted mother’s sentencing
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Joe Mulvanerton, one of the jurors in the Michelle Lodzinski murder trial, sat quietly and listened as she was sentenced last week to a 30-year prison sentence for killing her 5-year-old son, Timmy, in 1991 and dumping his body in a creek off Olympic Drive in Raritan…
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Mother sentenced in case that still haunts many
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — In 1991, best friends Tara Packard and Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey, who were both 5 years old at the time, had a secret code to speak to one another when they were home — by knocking on the adjoining wall that their duplex home in South Amboy shared. On…
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Families feel complete during National Adoption Day ceremony
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — The words “judgment for adoption granted” spoken by Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Deborah J. Venezia never sounded so sweet. Venezia, who presides over the Family Division in New Brunswick, spoke those words 18 times on Nov. 15 as the county celebrated its ninth annual adoption ceremony,…
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Judge’s ruling denies new trial for Lodzinski
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — There will be no new trial for Michelle Lodzinski, who was found guilty in May of murdering her 5-year-old son, Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey in 1991, according to a ruling this past week by Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves. In August, Gerald Krovatin, attorney for Lodzinski,…