Child, 2, struck and killed by vehicle leaving home
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
A 2-year-old child has died after he was hit by a truck Saturday morning in Somerset County.
A 60-year-old Somerset man was backing up his pickup truck to leave a home on Bennetts Lane in Franklin Township when the child was struck around 8:45 a.m., according to township police.
Arriving officers performed life-saving measures until EMS personnel arrived to take the child to a trauma center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Franklin Township Police and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office are conducting an investigation into the incident.
North Bergen man sought to have sex with undercover detective who posed as 14-year-old
Dave Adamovic. Photo courtesy of the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Beginning in October of 2020, as part of a joint initiative conducted by the FBI and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit, Dave Adamovic, 48, of North Bergen, began chatting on various application platforms with an undercover detective whom he believed to be 14 years old, Robertson said in a statement.
Adamovic’s chats became sexual in nature and throughout the course of the investigation made arrangements to travel to meet the undercover detective to engage in sexual intercourse.
Somerset County doctor accused of sex crimes by 3 patients
A 64-year-old gynecologist and obstetrician is accused of raping or molesting at least three women patients, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
Chike J. Aguh, of the Belle Mead section of Hillsborough, was arrested on Wednesday, stemming from a woman’s report that she was sexually assaulted during a medical appointment at the doctor’s office in Franklin, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael Robertson said.
That report was made on Jan. 2 regarding an incident in June 2020, Robertson said.
Aguh surrendered and was charged with second-degree sexual assault.
Aguh was previously arrested on Jan. 13 and charged with second-degree sexual assault after a woman reported being sexually assaulted by the man during a medical appointment the day before, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Two men and a woman are accused of managing to steal $10,000 cash in a phony bank withdrawal in Warren Township, as police said one member of the trio then rammed a police car and physically attacked an officer before trying to run away.
According to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, 25-year-old Deleon Hutchenson, of Sayreville, 43-year-old Rebecca Burlew, of Keyport, and 37-year-old Lemar Lodge, of East Orange, were arrested on Jan. 5 after the incident that afternoon.
An employee of a Bank of America branch on Mountain Boulevard had contacted Warren Township Police, reporting that a suspicious man and woman, later identified as Burlew, had withdrawn the large amount of cash and then left before 3 p.m., Prosecutor Michael Robertson said.