TRENTON–A Manalapan, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for the production of child pornography through the sexual exploitation of a 5-year-old girl, admitting to abusing the girl on more than one occasion and streaming footage of a sexual assault over the Internet, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant [...]
The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office made (1171) arrests from January 1, 2012 through November 30, 2012, and extradited (43) fugitives from out of state to face charges here in OceanCounty. (44) Subjects were arrested in November, of those (8) were outstanding Child Support arrears totaling $111,886.00 and (1) were Fugitives from Justice. Field Services Unit [...]
TRENTON–Federal agents today arrested a member of a New Jersey-based white supremacist group in connection with the New Year’s Eve 2011 hate crime assault of three Middle Eastern men in Sayreville, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Christopher Ising, 31, of Waretown, N.J., was arrested this morning by FBI special agents on an Indictment charging him with [...]
By Phil Stilton TRENTON–Former Toms River Republican Mayor Carmine Inteso plead guilty to tax evasion charges stemming from $291,000 he had received as bribes from Federal Hill Risk Management, an insurance broker tied to many recent political corruption cases. In recent weeks, the feds have either charged or sentenced many of the currently known participants [...]
TOMS RIVER–On Friday night, December 14th, Sheriff William Polhemus passed away at a hospital in Livingston. The sheriff had just won his 2012 re-election bid and was about to begin his 28th year of service in that position. This weekend, the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders remembered Ocean County Sheriff William L. Polhemus [...]
TRENTON–The Department of Law & Public Safety today released the 2011 Uniform Crime Report (UCR) which shows the overall crime rate in New Jersey increased three percent compared to the previous year. Violent crime remained unchanged in 2011, compared to 2010. Murder edged up less than two percent from 372 reported incidents to 380. Rape was [...]
TRENTON–An Ocean County, N.J., man was indicted today for his alleged role in a phony foreclosure rescue scheme that was part of a $4.4 million mortgage fraud, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Vito C. Grippo, 58, of Jackson, N.J., the president of Morgan Financial Equity Shares and Vanick Holdings LLC, was indicted by a [...]
NEWARK–A State Superior Court Judge on Monday granted the application submitted by Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa and the Acting Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, and ordered the organizer of an allegedly fraudulent “Superstorm Sandy Reconstruction Summit” to immediately cease the advertising, offering for sale and conduct of the event, which [...]
Freehold–A former partner of a law firm based in Freehold, N.J., admitted today to defrauding the firm and its clients by improperly diverting more than $885,000 from the law firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Timothy Provost, 57, of Millstone Township, N.J., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court to an [...]
NEWARK–An Ocean County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for concealing assets in connection with his November 2008 bankruptcy petition, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Bryan Young, 39, of Toms River, N.J., previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Claire C. Cecchi in Newark federal court to an Information charging him [...]