New Jersey police are investigating after a 5-year-old child was found dead in a bathtub in a Newark apartment. The child was found unresponsive just after 7 p.m., the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The child was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead, WNBC reported. The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine …
The former boyfriend of a New Jersey woman found dead just off a busy highway on Wednesday has been arrested for her murder. Gregory Mallard, 35, previously served 10 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter and was the father of 32-year-old Norelis Mendoza’s two children, NJ.com reported. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Mallard was …
A body found dumped beside a busy New Jersey highway early Wednesday has been identified as a 32-year-old mother of two reported missing on Sunday. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said that Norelis Mendoza was last seen at her mother’s home at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, NJ.com reported. Mendoza lived in Lindenwold in Camden County …
New Jersey State troopers went on the hunt Thursday night for a 4-year-old boy who got lost in the woods with his dog, and — they found him. Trooper Ian Emmi was with the boy’s mother when they heard the little boy’s cries and the dog’s barking. Emmi took off running down the path. “I …
New Jersey prosecutors have added first degree murder charges to a second suspect in the death of New Jersey kindergarten teacher Luz Hernandez last month. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced the upgraded charges for Leiner Miranda Lopez, 26, on Friday, according to Fox News. He was previously charged with desecrating human remains. Hernandez’s ex-boyfriend, …
A missing New Jersey kindergarten teacher has been found dead and buried in a shallow grave in Kearny. Police said Luz Hernandez, 33, was reported missing on Monday when she failed to show up for her job at BelovED Community Charter School, WNYW reports. Investigators conducted a welfare check at her Jersey City home and …
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty this week to paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have a 14-year-old boy killed to prevent the teen from testifying against him in a child porn case. John Michael Musbach, 31, exchanged sexually explicit photos and videos with the boy, then 13 and living in New York, until the teen’s …
A New Jersey borough town councilman has been arrested on charges of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine. Malik D. Johnston, aka Pippin J. Folk, 46, reportedly sold quantities of the drugs to an undercover police officer, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson said in a statement released Friday. She said …
A New Jersey mother was found guilty on Wednesday of killing, dismembering, and burning her 23-month-old son in 2019. Nakira Griner, 28, refused a plea deal in October 2021 that would have seen her plead guilty to killing Daniel Griner Jr. in exchange for 30 years in prison, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Instead, she opted …
A Pennyslvania woman has been charged with traveling to New Jersey before Christmas to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband’s current wife. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office says that Marilyn Zhou, 56, says that its Special Investigations Unit learned that Zhou was seeking a hitman for a murder for hire and arranged for her …
Early reports of a rooftop gunman turned out to be false; the officers, now in stable condition, were shot at close range.
Two people were killed Saturday night during a pop-up car rally in New Jersey beach town Wildwood, where thousands of people swarmed in, overwhelming police who were “grossly outmanned.” Eventually, New Jersey State Police troopers and Cape May Sheriff’s deputies joined Wildwood police officers, and many of them were patrolling the area Sunday morning, NJ.com …
