The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has ruled Hamilton Police Officer Tom White’s death a suicide. On Monday, June 19, at about 3:10 p.m., Hamilton police officers responded to the scene of a motor vehicle crash on the 2700 block of...
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Krystal KnappAlert: Live wires down on N. Harrison Street in Princeton
A transformer blew Monday afternoon and brought down live wires on North Harrison Street between Valley Road and Franklin Avenue. PSE&G is on the scene repairing the transformer. The southbound lanes of North Harrison Street are impassable. Work...
Detective James Udijohn named American Legion officer of the year
James Udijohn, a detective with the Mercer County Sheriff’s office, has been named the American Legion officer of the year for New Jersey. The award is given to an officer who has exceeded the duty requirements and has demonstrated a pattern...
Princeton Police save man who overdosed on heroin
Princeton police officers Sgt. Thomas Lagomarsino and Ptl. Andre Lee saved a 32-year-old man who was overdosing on heroin yesterday. The pair responded to a report of an unresponsive male who was believed to have taken narcotics. Upon their arrival...
Texting driver crosses double yellow line on Ridge Road and strikes tractor trailer head on
TEXTING DRIVER crossed over double yellow lines and struck the tractor trailer head on. #donttextanddrive @NHTSAgov pic.twitter.com/0SQYf4sd4I — So Brunswick PD (@SoBrunswickPD) May 22, 2017 Just after 1 p.m. on Monday, a driver was...
South Brunswick Police end three-hour standoff at Route 1 motel
Police in South Brunswick successfully ended a three-hour standoff at a Route 1 motel on Monday morning. At about 8:15 a.m., police were called to the Hotel Vincenza at 3793 Route 1 south after workers reported a despondent man in a motel room...
Maryland man indicted for murder in 2014 stabbing in Hamilton
A Mercer County grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging a Maryland man in the death of a woman in Hamilton stemming from a 2014 stabbing. Yoon Choi, age 50, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was indicted last week on one count of first...
False report of ICE raid causes panic in Princeton
Rumors of a raid by immigration agents in Princeton on Friday had some community members in a panic on Saturday. A resident whose congregation supports undocumented immigrants posted on social media Saturday that undocumented Guatemalans in...
Victim identified in fatal Route 1 crash in South Brunswick
A 61-year-old woman from Plano, Texas was killed in a crash on Route 1 Thursday night, police said. The victim, Venkataramana Tangerala, was a back-seat passenger in a 2016 Chrysler sedan driven by Naga Remani, 37, of Plano, Texas. Remani was headed...
John Witherspoon Middle School student threatens to ‘shoot up school’
A John Witherspoon Middle School student told other students Thursday that he was going to get a gun and “shoot up the school tomorrow,” police said. The student was overheard by a student who reported the incident and told school...
Hopewell resident charged in homicide
A Hopewell resident is in custody for the April 25 murder of a 37-year-old Trenton woman. Brian Sheppard, 53, has been charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon, according to the Mercer...
Jewish academy teacher allegedly sexually assaulted two boys
Two victims have stepped forward to say they were sexually assaulted by an East Windsor man who taught at the Shalom Torah Academy Marlboro Township and led a youth group, law enforcement officials said. Menachem Chinn, 40, was charged in April with...
Murder victim in Hopewell identified
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has identified the woman who was murdered in Hopewell Township on Tuesday. The victim has been identified as 37-year-old Laura M. Perez of Trenton. A cause of death has been determined by the Middlesex...
Mercer County Narcotics Task Force investigation shuts down heroin mill in Trenton
A four-month investigation by the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force dubbed Operation Johnny Be Good ended this week with three arrests and the seizure of $35,000 in cash and $200,000 in raw heroin, law enforcement officials said. On Monday, April...
Woman murdered in Hopewell Township on Tuesday
A woman was murdered in a home on Washington Crossing-Pennington Road in Hopewell Township on Tuesday, law enforcement officials said. Police received a call from the homeowner just after 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday night. The Mercer County Homicide Task...
Vandals spray-paint obscene graffiti, racial slur on Princeton buildings
Residents, shoppers and employees at local businesses were surprised when they went to park in the metered lot just off Park Place on Saturday morning in downtown Princeton and were greeted with obscene graffiti. Vandals spray-painted the n-word...
Princeton Police looking for ladies’ restroom peeper
Police in Princeton are trying to identify a man who allegedly followed a female patron into the women’s restroom at Triumph Brewery on Friday night, April 23, just before 11:30 p.m. The man allegedly followed the woman into the women’s...
Princeton police blotter: Woman groped in tree street neighborhood
A woman reported that on April 12 at about 7 p.m., she was inappropriately touched by a man near the intersection of Spruce Spruce Street and Moore Street. After groping the victim from behind, the suspect fled from the scene on Spruce Street. The...
