19-year-old charged with attempted murder following shooting at N.J. apartment complex
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
A 19-year-old has been charged with attempted murder after authorities say he shot and injured another man during a robbery near a New Brunswick apartment complex last month.
Giovanni Hoyos-Jaimes, of New Brunswick shot the victim multiple times in the area of the Tov Manor Apartments on Phelps Avenue around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 28, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday night.
The man survived his injuries after being treated at a city hospital.
Hoyos-Jaimes is also charged with two weapons offenses, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and aggravated assault.
Jamesburg man sentenced in South Brunswick fatal hit-and-run
A Jamesburg man has been sentenced for his involvement in a crash resulting in the death of Cory Holsten, 25, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick.
Peter Prete, 59, of Jamesburg, was sentenced by the Honorable Andrea Carter to an aggregate 11 years in prison on one count of second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash resulting in death, and one count of third-degree hindering his own apprehension, according to information provided by Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Raymond J. Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department on Jan. 5.
Driver who left scene of fatal motorcycle crash sentenced to over a decade in prison
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
A man who admitted last year to leaving the scene of a crash that left a 25-year-old motorcyclist dead in South Brunswick was sentenced to eleven years in prison, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and South Brunswick Police announced Tuesday in a joint statement.
Peter Prete, 59, of Jamesburg, pleaded guilty on Jan. 31, 2020 to second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash resulting in death and one count of third-degree hindering his own apprehension, the office said. Once he is released from prison, Prete faces a one-year loss of his driver’s license for having left the scene of the crash.
NJ cops stop using facial ID software after arrest of wrong man
Published: December 29, 2020
Archive photo from Dec. 18, 2017, shows facial recognition technology as demonstrated via a teleconference at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A Paterson man has filed a civil lawsuit that accuses Woodbridge police of extreme racial profiling in wrongly arresting him based solely on facial recognition software that has since been flagged by the state attorney general.
According to the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Passaic County, 33-year-old Najeer Parks, says that he was held for more than a week in Middlesex County jail in early 2019 after being mistaken for a shoplifter who had driven from a hotel in Woodbridge and struck a police car in the process.