Eight arrests made by Internet Crimes Against Children Unit after 100,000 images discovered
Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone announced that six county residents have been arrested for their possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation or abuse of children.
On May 13, officers of the East Brunswick, Edison, Highland Park, Monroe, New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Sayreville police departments, along with detectives of the New Jersey State Police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, executed search warrants at six residences across the county, according to information provided on May 14.
The investigation resulted in the following arrests:
Dingren Nie, 27, of
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NEW BRUNSWICK - A state appeals court has overturned the conviction of Timothy Puskas in the 2014 murder of former Rutgers University student William McCaw, saying a Superior Court judge erred by allowing the jury to hear a recorded conversation between Puskas and a tenant, who died before the trial of a drug overdose.
The appellate panel ruled Friday that the decision by Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves to admit the tape into evidence violated Puskas right to confront a witness and violated court rules about hearsay testimony.
The Middlesex County Prosecutor s Office declined to comment.
McCaw, who attended two fraternity parties the previous evening, was found in the backyard of a Hartwell Street home with a fractured skull. The medical examiner ruled that he died from blows delivered from an instrument like a crowbar or wrench.
OLD BRIDGE The issue of cultural competency training was initially met with silence at the latest township council meeting after a man was charged with a hate crime for sending a racist email to the township s only Black council member.
But after some discussion, a white colleague told Councilwoman Edina Brown, I feel that you only care about Blacks sometimes.
Attending the meeting remotely on Tuesday night, Brown thanked the Middlesex County Prosecutor s Office and Old Bridge police for attentiveness and help in finding the suspect who police said had sent a racist and vulgar email to Brown on March 7.
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Toni Johnson, 38, of Brick, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of tampering with public records, a third-degree crime; one count of falsifying public records, a fourth-degree crime; and one count of computer theft, a second-degree crime.
Her first appearance in Superior Court is scheduled for June 3.
The borough’s statement read,” During the course of a routine annual audit of the Borough’s finance department, the Borough’s independent auditing firm reported potential improper conduct by an employee within the Borough’s finance department.
“The Borough immediately authorized a full investigation by an outside auditing firm, resulting in the immediate suspension without pay of the employee and referral of the matter to the proper law enforcement agency (The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.)
Therapist sued for overbilling N.J. school district by $200K
Updated May 11, 2021;
A pediatric occupational therapist has been sued by the East Brunswick School District, which alleges they overpaid the business she owns for $200,000 in services that were never rendered.
Rebecca Dean, 42, of Somerset County, faces criminal charges for similar allegations in Edison, where the public school district has alleged in a criminal case that she billed them $75,000 for therapy she never provided.
The East Brunswick suit, filed in Superior Court of Middlesex County, states the district contracted with Dean and Tiny Tots Therapy, for services beginning on Feb. 28, 2008.
For 10 years, the East Brunswick district paid Dean’s company a monthly fee based on invoices submitted by the therapy company, states the suit, filed April 26.