The Irvington mayor and other officials are on defense after a state investigation found they wasted $632K meant to help communities overwhelmed by opioid addiction.
Police from several jurisdictions converged on a Rumson neighborhood just before sunrise on Friday on reports of multiple burglaries, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago.
An armed, 34-year-old man was in police custody after sparking a tense standoff that lasted for an entire day, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens announced.
Essex County correctional officer Sherman Bardouille, 31, from Irvington, and Tamir Lee, 42, a from Newark, were riding eastbound near Exit 43 in Berkeley Heights at the time of the crash Sunday evening.
Democratic Edison Mayor Sam Joshi and Republican Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik again on Monday said that juveniles should be charged as adults when they are involved with car thefts and home burglaries.