View Comments FREEHOLD - In the first in-person criminal jury trial held in Monmouth County since trials were suspended last October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Keansburg man was found guilty on charges of aggravated assault by strangulation in connection to a domestic violence incident in 2019, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey said. Jaself Brown, 35, was found guilty Tuesday on one count of aggravated assault by strangulation of a victim of domestic violence after a five-day trial concluded before Superior Court Judge Marc C. LeMieux, according to Linskey. On Oct. 18, 2019, Brown's fiancée, the victim and mother of his son, was dropping Brown off at his mother's home on Sewall Avenue in Asbury Park when they became embroiled in a verbal argument, which later became a heated confrontation, authorities said. Brown then moved to the driver's side of the vehicle and strangled his fiancée while she was sitting in the driver's seat.