Monday, May 13, 2013
The department has 23,618 followers.
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Monday, May 13
OK, so maybe it's not trending right now, but chances are, it soon will be. The New Jersey State Police ranked second among state police agencies nationally in terms of Twitter followers, according to statistics recently released by the IACP Center for Social Media. The agency has 23,618 followers, trailing only the Massachusetts State Police, which had a whopping 62,493 followers, as of April 30. The Texas Department of Public Safety (18,787), the Ohio State Highway Patrol (13,587) and the Indiana State Police (13,466) round out the top five. As of Monday morning, May 13, the State Police had 23,932 followers and had sent out 991 tweets. However, with over eight million people in the state as of the 2012 Census, the State Police still …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Accident happened at mile marker 74.7 northbound, State Police say
A man who was trying to help push a disabled car off the northbound lane of the Garden State Parkway in Lacey Township died when a passing car struck and killed him early this evening, State Police said. Preliminary reports indicate the man was one of four who stopped to push the disabled car onto the shoulder of the roadway, Sgt. Adam Grossman said. "The person at the rear left of the vehicle was struck by a passing motor vehicle," he said. "Unfortunately it looks like a Good Samaritan...they are still trying to sort things out." The man - whose identify is being withheld for now - was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune by the Lacey Township First Aid Squad. "He was pronounced dead at the hospital," Grossman said. …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Christopher Lane defied police in Bayville, Pine Beach and Beachwood for over a week, speeding down Route 9 in excess of 100 miles per hour
They got him. For more than a week, the man on the neon-green Kawasaki with no license plates had careened down Route 9 through Bayville, Pine Beach and Beachwood, hitting speeds of more than 100 miles per hour during rush hour. Today was no exception. Christopher Lane, 23, Browns Mills, was spotted speeding down the center of two-lane Route 9 in Bayville, making obscene gestures at police as he flew by around 7:30 a.m. "Today he gave us the finger as he passed by," Berkeley Detective Sgt. James J. Smith said. But this time, Lane didn't complete his journey. This time, Berkeley Detective Joseph Robertazzi and Beachwood Detective Sgt. Glen DeMarco were watching Lane from the vantage point of a New Jersey State Police helicopter they had …
Friday, July 27, 2012
The troopers have been criminally charged in connection with the March 2012 incident.
Two New Jersey state troopers accused of leading a high-speed escort on the Garden State Parkway for a fleet of luxury cars have been criminally charged, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced. The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) received complaints regarding the March 2012 caravan to Atlantic City, and the troopers were subsequently suspended without pay in April. In a press conference in Trenton on Friday, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said the troopers who conducted the unauthorized escort "turned our highway into a virtual speedway." "What they did was absolutely wrong," he said. An investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice into the incident found that the troopers, Sgt. First Class Nadir Nassry, 47, and Trooper…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Another public hearing on the emergency plan is scheduled for July 25 in Woodstown
Area residents want the state to implement an educational program to inform the public of its Emergency Response Plan for the four New Jersey nuclear plants. “I think there should be a public education campaign with the goal that every resident and visitor to Ocean County will know about the existence of Oyster Creek Generating Station,” Jeffery Brown of Brick said at a hearing Tuesday evening. The hearing - held by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the New Jersey State Police - consisted primarily of a public comment period in which individuals expressed their concerns with Oyster Creek Generating Station, the oldest operating nuclear plant in the country, and the emergency plan. The purpose of the plan is to …
Monday, July 16, 2012
Public information session starts at 6 p.m., followed by public hearing at 7 p.m. in Toms River
State Department of Environmental Protection officials and New Jersey State Police will be on hand Tuesday to discuss the state's Radiological Emergency Response Plan for the state's four nuclear plants. The public information session on the plan begins at 6 p.m. in Room 119 in the Ocean County Administration Building at 101 Hooper Avenue in Toms River. The information session will be followed by a public hearing at 7 p.m. Both events are required by the state's Radiation Accident Response Act. Representatives of the DEP’s Bureau of Nuclear Engineering, Department of Health and Senior Services, and the Office of Emergency Management, Division of State Police will attend the hearings and respond to questions and comments from the public. …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
It can take as long as six to 8 weeks for tests to be completed, state police say
It's been a month since William D. Kolb's Harley-Davidson slammed into Freeholder John P. Kelly's SUV, but the toxicological tests done on Kelly at the time of the accident are still not back yet, state police said. The investigation into the fatal May 18 accident that killed the 24-year-old Barnegat motorcyclist and involved Kelly has not yet been completed, State Trooper Brian Polite said. It can take six to 8 weeks for toxicological tests to be completed, Polite said. Kelly consented to the procedure, which is standard protocol in fatal accidents, state police have said. Kolb was thrown from his motorcycle after it collided with the SUV driven by Kelly, state police have said. Trooper Joseph Mezzo has said that Kolb was southbound on …
Monday, June 11, 2012
Robert Marone, a convicted murder, has been using an alias for more than 15 years, authorities say
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Monday, June 11, 2012
A convicted murder who police say has been in hiding for more than 15 years has been arrested in Florida. Detectives from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrested Robert Marone, 69, on Friday after receiving a citizen's tip relayed from the New Jersey State Police's Fugitive tipline, according to a release from the Office of the Attorney General. Marone, who was living under an alias in Fort Lauderdale, was wanted by the New Jersey Parole Board on a violation stemming from a 1971 murder conviction. In 1992, he was charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child in Ocean County and has been on New Jersey's 12 Most Wanted list since 1995. "The cooperative effort leading to the apprehension of Robert Marone is a excellent example of …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Paramus man killed in first crash; second crash just minutes later sends driver to hospital
A 27-year-old from Paramus was killed and a 23-year-old from Neptune was charged with drunken driving after two unrelated crashes on the northbound Garden State Parkway minutes apart Saturday morning, state police said. The first accident, at mile marker 86.2, occurred about 7 a.m., when the 2003 Toyota Corolla left the road and crashed, killing Jeffrey Rosenberg of Paramus, according to N.J. State Trooper Christopher Kay. “A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver lost of control of the vehicle and ran off the left side of the roadway, overcorrected (a turn back to the right), spun around clockwise and then left the right side of the roadway. At that point, the car overturned and went into a grass embankment, striking a tree…
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Two accidents take place on northbound side of Parkway, within 11 minutes of each other
A pair of automobile accidents on the Garden State Parkway on Saturday morning left one person dead and another in need of a medevac response, according to the New Jersey State Police. “We received a call time on the first accident of 7:03 a.m.,” said Trooper Christopher Kay of the New Jersey State Police. “It involved one passenger vehicle which left the Garden State Parkway northbound at mile marker 86.2, and the male driver was pronounced dead at the scene.” Kay indicated that there was no evidence that the driver had any passengers. Identification is currently being withheld, pending notification of the driver’s next of kin. the second accident took place exactly one mile north of the first one, at mile marker 87.2 of the northbound …
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11:33 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
For a more full account, see the Asbury Park Press (or Lacey Beacon). The killer/driver was unlicensed, under the influence, in possession of drugs/paraphernalia, and travelling too fast. He was arrested and faces serious charges. more ›