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Strother named assistant vice president for public safety
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May 28, 2021 10:30 a.m.
Kenneth Strother Jr., director of operations in the Department of Public Safety (DPS), has been named assistant vice president for public safety, effective June 1.
“Community caretaking is our mission at public safety,” said Kenneth Strother Jr., who has been named assistant vice president for public safety. “I am honored and excited that I can continue my service to the campus community in this new role.”
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Strother has served as director of operations in public safety since January 2019, managing the day-to-day operations of the department and serving as second-in-command. He will succeed Paul Ominsky, who is retiring on June 1 after leading DPS for 11 years.
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A New Jersey man who thought he was chatting with a 15-year-old boy online was actually talking to an undercover officer, and was arrested when he tried meeting up with him at a strip mall, authorities said.
Kevin Hilbert, 53, of Florence, had been talking to the boy over a social media app for several weeks in April and May, the Mercer County Prosecutor s Office announced.
He was arrested on May 5, after picking up a beverage for the teen at a convenience store and then heading to the Hamilton strip mall to meet him, authorities said.
The undercover officer had told Hamilton soon into chatting with him that he was a 15-year-old boy, Mercer County Prosecutor s Office spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio said.
Man pronounced dead after multi-vehicle accident
A 29-year-old Trenton man was killed after the car he was driving sideswiped one car and then struck another car head-on at the intersection of Clarksville Road and Meadow Road shortly after 8:30 p.m. May 23, according to the West Windsor Police Department.
The man, whose name is being withheld, was driving north on Clarksville Road near the Meadow Road intersection when his Nissan Maxima sedan crossed over the double yellow line and into oncoming traffic, police said.
His car side-swiped a Ford Escape sport utility vehicle that was traveling south.
After hitting the Escape, he continued traveling north on Clarksville Road, still crossing over the double yellow line and into oncoming traffic, police said. That’s when his car struck a Chevrolet head-on at the intersection of Clarksville Road and Meadow Road. The Chevrolet was traveling south on Clarksville Road.
Bicyclist fatally struck by vehicle remembered as a ‘woman of action’
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A woman who was hit by a vehicle as she bicycled in Hopewell Borough last week died from her injuries Monday, Hopewell Township police said.
Susan Waskow, 59, was struck last Thursday, May 13, shortly after 4 p.m. on East Broad Street, police said.
Waskow, who lived in Hopewell, was riding east when a westbound vehicle hit her as it made a left turn onto Princeton Avenue. She died Monday at a local hospital, police said.
The vehicle was being operated by a 67-year-old Hamilton man, officials said.
The circumstances of the crash are still under investigation by Hopewell Township police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.