By: NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ—Mayor Mac Womack confirmed that a suspended Township employee who was charged with distributing drugs on the job can return to work as soon as he recovers from a 'non-work-related' injury. Michael Vitanza has worked as a laborer with the Township of North Brunswick's Department of Public Works until his December 2013 arrest in a State Police operation that took down a major drug and gun sales network. Authorities said he was caught purchasing drugs while he was on the job. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-In a surprising turn of events, a well-respected member of the city's school board resigned creating a vacancy at a critical time. Business Administrator Richard Jannarone explained that outgoing board member John Krenos, who was not present at the May 12 board meeting, expressed his 'deep regret' and gratitude to his colleagues.
Krenos, a Rutgers professor and Second Ward resident, was first elected in 2013 after serving as an appointed school board member prior to the implementation of school elections. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police are investigating a shots fired call on Wright Place 10:12pm, where at least eight shots were fired amid a fight in the 4th Ward neighborhood. Similar to a reported shooting earlier in the week on the other side of town, police were unable to locate any victim. It's unclear if anyone was hit by gunfire in the incident, which took place in the public. According to witnesses, one man was chasing another while firing at him in the vicinity of the Schwarz Homes public housing. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-The 67-year-old Ex-Treasurer of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority has admitted to stealing $57,000 from the Middlesex County Utilities between 2012 and 2014. But almost five months after her guilty plea, Margaret Brennan still has not spent a moment in jail, thanks to the retirement of Judge Bradley Ferencz.
Judge Ferencz left his post as the county's Presiding Criminal Judge earlier this year, but not before scheduling the sentencing of Brennan for February 2, just a few days after he planned to leave office. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) is investigating a robbery where a college student was pistol-whipped, according to a Rutgers University crime alert. The robbery took place at 1:47 a.m.
On April 23 in an off-campus residence, on Guilden Street between Bristol and Prosper Streets. According to the alert, the victims of this robbery reported hearing voices outside of their residence. Upon checking the alleyway next to the residence, they discovered three male suspects wearing masks, it says. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Protesters against police brutality and Governor Chris Christie's decision to dispatch 150 New Jersey State Troopers to Baltimore, Maryland, repeatedly disrupted a high-profile event held on Suydam Street. What began as heckling turned into more organized chants as the small but growing group spoke from behind a large metal gate taller than all of them.
A small group protesters originally gained access to the event, held in the parking lot of the New Brunswick Counseling Center at 320 Suydam Street. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-In the early morning hours of April 13, New Brunswick police pulled over a vehicle on Louis Street and ended up making an arrest of weapons and drug charges. Miseka Diggs, a 39-year-old resident of South Bound Brook, was charged with several offenses after officers found a handgun, hollow point bullets, and crack cocaine, according to a NBPD press release. Hollow point bullets have a specially-designed tip that is intended to cause the bullet disrupt more tissue as it travels through the target. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—One man is in stable condition after being stabbed and undergoing surgery, while another victim in the same incident was arrested on his way out of the hospital on an unrelated warrant. It was a busy night for city police on March 28, especially around the time of last call at the city's 50+ bars.
Mi Tierra, a bar at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Handy Street in the city's Fourth Ward, was the scene of three stabbings in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 29, according to a police press release. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—An email sent at 2:29pm on March 29 was the first official communication that tens of thousands of students got from Rutgers University, after more than two days of service interruptions involving the school's computer network. The university acknowledged its network was the victim of a cyber-attack that took down internet service in dormitories, and rendered many online services used by students and staff unusable. Shortly after 1pm, the main Rutgers University website had been taken offline for at least 15 minutes. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-With the snow and ice gone from the city's roadways, litter and potholes have taken their place.
Few places is this more apparent than on Hamilton Street, which divides the city's Fifth and Sixth Wards. There, the badly damaged roadway is in need of repair, but the city government has fallen behind schedule. After identifying the roadway as one that would be re-paved in 2014, thanks to funding from the NJ Department of Transportation, the city went back on its word last year, citing bad weather. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The father of a murder victim is calling out the New Jersey Court system for the way it handled the case against a city resident accused of killing his son.
Jose Negron complained prosecutors handling the case were changed twice in the lead-up to the trial, and questioned why the a Superior Court Judge Barry Weisberg was put in charge of the murder trial, despite never handling a criminal case before. 'Something went extremely wrong in this case,' Negron told New Brunswick Today. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Two people were injured in a shooting that took place Sunday afternoon, on a dead-end block about 1,000 feet from New Brunswick High School in a Fourth Ward neighborhood. Anthony Brown, a 22-year-old from New Brunswick, was shot in the hand and the buttocks, and a 17-year-old male juvenile was shot once in the chest, according to police. Both victims walked in to the emergency room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital after being dropped off in privately-owned vehicles. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Though it is still dominated by caucasian officers, the New Brunswick Police Department is somewhat more representative of the city it serves after a new round of hiring, according to data provided by the agency.
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In the aftermath of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the New York Times reported that the NBPD was 70% white. Under Civil Service guidelines, the city hired eleven new officers in 2011, effectively lowering the percentage of caucasian officers to 62.6% of the force. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Almost fifteen years after Derick Stevens allegedly sexually assaulted an inmate at the county jail he worked at, the criminal case against him finally appears to be coming to a close. But, like other public officials who have been given probation despite the severity of their alleged crimes, Stevens will likely avoid any time in jail.
His career with the Middlesex County Department of Adult Corrections and Youth Services began on August 19, 1996, four years before he allegedly sexually assaulted the inmate. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) announced that detectives arrested eleven people in the early morning hours on February 11, saying that they were involved in a series of four different after-hours burglaries of city stores in the past month. 'In each instance several suspects would approach the glass door or window of a convenience store and throw a large object, usually a brick or cinder block through the window allowing access to the store,' reads the NBPD press release. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—An elementary school student is facing charges of aggravated arson after a fire last month at the McKinley Community School, according to city officials. The fire did not injure anyone, and the damage was minimal, but it required an evacuation, the re-location of staff and students to a nearby building, and the cancellation of after-school activites on January 20. 'According to NBFD, a young kid set a small fire on the hand sanitizer dispenser,' said city spokesperson Jennifer Bradshaw. By: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—New Brunswick police are investigating an assault and robbery that occurred Thursday, January 22, at approximately 7:45 PM on Brookside Avenue, according to a Rutgers crime alert.
According to the alert, the victim is a resident of Brookside Avenue, who was assaulted by two men in an alley adjacent to his home, located between Freeman Street and Louis Street. 'He was approached by two male perpetrators who physically assaulted him and removed an item of value,' reads the crime alert. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— Aggravated assaults, and those involving dangerous weapons, were up 47% during the first eleven months of 2014 in New Brunswick, compared to the same period in 2013, according to New Jersey State Police crime statistics.
From January through November 2014, the New Brunswick Police Department investigated at least 160 assaults that either involved a dangerous weapon or were categorized as 'aggravated assaults,' including a 65% increase in assaults involving a gun over the previous year's stats.