May 15, 2021 at 8:00 AM
ROXBURY, NJ A Roxbury police chief who was killed in a 1929 motorcycle accident is among the law enforcement officers honored this week for losing their lives in the line of duty.
On the rainy night of April 11, 1929, former Roxbury Police Chief Fred Plumstead died while riding his town-issued 1927 Harley-Davidson police cycle home from a court appearance in Newark, according to his obituary.
Plumstead, a 29-year-old Kenvil resident and father of five young daughters, couldn’t stop in time to avoid a truck stopped on a road in Mine Hill while its operator worked on its lights, said the obituary.
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The family of Jalen Davis sued three Morristown bars for their alleged role in a drunk-driving accident that killed her in 2019. (Courtesy of Leonard Legal Group)
MORRISTOWN, NJ An alcohol-induced accident took a father of four, an aspiring hip-hop artist and an advocate for animals. Two of the victim s families have filed wrongful-death lawsuits against Morristown bars for allegedly over-serving the man who caused the 2019 crash.
The lawsuits accuse Iron Bar, Revolution Social Brew House and Horseshoe Tavern of over-serving a customer before he sparked a wrong-way crash that killed three.
Miguel Botero caused the fiery crash while driving on I-80 during the early-morning hours of Oct. 18, 2019, in Parsippany, according to the Morris County Prosecutor s Office. His blood alcohol content totaled 0.229 nearly triple New Jersey s legal limit of 0.08.
Man faces charges in blaze that tore through historic N.J. building
Updated May 11, 2021;
A Morris County man was arrested on charges related to a fire that destroyed a historic building in Flanders, authorities said Tuesday.
Anthony Rondan, 29, of Budd Lake, faces charges of failure to report a dangerous fire and criminal trespass, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. The allegations stem from a Sunday blaze at the vacant Ye Olde Mill Shoppe on Route 206.
“Upon further investigation, it was determined that Rondan allegedly discarded a lit cigarette while inside the building,” a news release from the prosecutor’s office said.
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A trio of Morris County bars have been accused of overserving alcohol to the driver involved in a triple-fatal crash on Route 80 in 2019, a new report says.
Iron Bar, Revolution Social Brew House and Horseshoe Tavern in Morristown are accused of “employing incompetent and inadequately trained bartenders” in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ronald Francois, one of three victims in the Oct. 18, 2019 crash in Parsippany,
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Miguel Botero, 29, was driving westbound on the eastbound side on the highway when his Jeep Cherokee struck another vehicle, killing
Francois, 28, of Newark, Jalen Davis, 20, of Stanhope, and Julia Wells, 20, of Mine Hill, the Morris County Prosecutor s Office said at the time.
Community support is surging for the family of Ajay Sah, the
missing Morris County college student whose body was found in a Brooklyn waterway earlier this week.
Ajay Sah, a 22-year-old junior and Nepalese International student at Drew University, was reported missing on Jan. 22. His body was found in the Anchorage Channel in Brooklyn on March 9 and
More than $41,000 had been raised on a
GoFundMe as of Friday to help bring Sah’s family from Nepal to New Jersey for the funeral and cremation.
“We want to give Ajay Sah the memorial that he truly deserves, a traditional cremation by his loved ones, to honor his memory and the impact that he has on all of us,” reads the updated fundraiser.