Year: 2013

In the early hours of Thursday morning around 2 a.m. a man was arrested for suspicion of being intoxicated after he struck a 20-year-old pedestrian with his vehicle. Linden Police quickly responded to the scene to investigate what had happened. Now it turns out that the man arrested for DWI was a police officer himself, […]

Union County NJ Aggravated Assault Lawyer Aggravated Assault is a serious indictable offense that can carry lengthy state prison time if found guilty. Examples of aggravated assault are committing Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assault by Auto, Assaulting a Police Officer, or when the victim suffers a significant injury such as a laceration or broken nose. For […]

By now it is no secret that Ocean County, New Jersey is in the midst of what people are calling a heroin epidemic. To make matters worse, the highly addictive drug has gained incredible popularity among the county’s youth including many high school students. To help combat this growing problem, police in all 33 towns […]

Brick Police were able to track down the suspect in a serious hit and run accident that took place earlier in the week, by using EZ-Pass toll records and surveillance video. The defendant, a Bayville man, was charged with critically-injuring another man in a Monday rush-hour and then fleeing the scene, according to police. Police had surveillance video […]

Bayonne police arrested two men for marijuana possession after the two were seen leaving the 16th Street Park and subsequently stopped and admitted to police officers that they had just been smoking weed. Police often patrol parks in the evening and early hours of the morning because they are a popular place for drug use and other […]

Indictable Offenses vs. Disorderly Persons Offenses vs. Ordinances Our law office often retains clients who, upon receiving a summons, are unsure of the magnitude or seriousness of their offense. If you are unsure of the difference between an ordinance, a disorderly persons offense, and an indictable offense, hopefully this will clear things up for you. […]

Middlesex County Drug Bust Yields 23 Bricks and One Bundle of Heroin According to mycentraljersey.com, a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike lead to the arrest of three individuals on charges of Heroin Possession in Cranbury Township. At about 1:40 a.m. on Saturday September 7, State Trooper Robert Kilmurray stopped a silver Dodge Avenger for […]

A bill sponsored by Hudson County legislators was signed into law this past Wednesday by Gov. Chris Christie which strengthens child pornography penalties and brings state child pornography laws up to par with the current federal law. Assembly woman Angelica Jimenez, from West New York, was quoted as saying “Sexual predators that prey on our children […]

A conviction for robbery requires the state to make a showing that the accused used force while “in the course of committing a theft.” These types of crimes have become increasingly common and the suspects are normally teenagers, young adults, or even juveniles. Common items that are normally stolen in these cases include cell phones, […]

Montclair police recently reported the arrest of four suspects in an investigation from an assault in Glenfield Park. On the night of the crime, an anonymous caller contacted Montclair Police Department a little before 10:30 pm to report that they saw several people assaulting and pointing a gun at someone before fleeing in a dark 4-door sedan, police said. […]