Just after 7:30 p.m. on Monday, residents of Skyfield Drive in Hopewell Township smelled smoke on the first floor of their home and called 9-1-1. The Hopewell Township Police Department, along with the Pennington Fire Company, responded. Fire personnel, under the command of Deputy Fire Chief Roger Demareski, arrived on location and quickly extinguished a…
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place earlier this month near the Royal Oaks Apartments clubhouse on Henderson Road just off Route 1 in South Brunswick. Jayvin Almestica, 20, of Lawrenceville, Ga., was arrested in Dover, Del. last week and extradited to New Jersey yesterday. He is charged…
The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Mercer County serious collision response team are investigating a chase and crash that took place in Trenton near Ewing early Wednesday morning. Three Trenton police officers and three suspects were injured in the crash. One officer is in critical condition and two are in stable condition. Three…
Police in West Windsor located a missing resident late Friday afternoon. Cameron Ward, 25, was found safe. Police have not provided more details about how Ward was found. Ward left home on foot to walk his three dogs in the West Windsor Community Park at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. He and never came home…
The son of a federal judge was shot to death in North Brunswick on Sunday night and the judge’s husband is in critical condition due to injuries from gunshots, police said. Law enforcement agencies are searching for the suspect, who fled on foot. Sources say he was dressed as a Federal Express driver. The FBI has…
A woman drove her 2010 Nissan Rogue SUV into Lake Mercer during the storm on Friday night and the car sank in the lake, West Windsor Police said. Lauren Engel of Dumont allegedly was intoxicated when she drove her vehicle into the lake via the boat ramp in the marina parking lot at Mercer County…
Police announced on Wednesday that they have arrested a suspect in the June 16 groping incident that took place on Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Princeton resident Alonzo Lopez-Gomez, 32, allegedly grabbed a 16-year-old girl from behind. After an investigation by detectives, Lopez-Gomez was arrested on July 1. He was charged with criminal sexual contact and…
A resident of Princeton noticed racist graffiti on the bridge on Poe Road and reported it to police. Officers responded Thursday, and saw that someone had written racially motivated hate speech on the underside of the bridge. The graffiti was targeted at Blacks and incited violence against them, saying they should be killed or “go…
Nick Sutter, who has served as the police chief of Princeton since 2014, is retiring on Oct. 1. Sutter has been doing double duty in recent months, also serving as the municipality’s director of emergency management, which has meant he has been working around the clock during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials made him the director…
The Princeton Police Department is seeking the public’s help to locate a missing senior who was last seen at the Harriet Bryan House complex at 310 Elm Road just after 2 p.m. on Friday. Joan Howell, 82, is 5’3″ and weighs about 135 pounds, police said. She may be driving a 2006 black VW Jetta with the…
The Princeton Police Department has released a video of the suspect who allegedly groped a teen last Friday just before 9 p.m. The 16-year-old girl was walking along Witherspoon Street near Torrey Lane when the incident occurred. The suspect was described as a 5’4″ male in his mid-40s. More than a dozen similar incidents involving…
Three cars crashed on Route 1 near Henderson Road at about 11:15 a.m. on Friday. The southbound lane of Route 1 is closed from Finnegans Lane to Henderson Road. South Brunswick Police, South Brunswick EMS and the Kendall Park Fire Department are working at the scene. We will update this story when more information is…
A teen has reported to police that she was groped on Witherspoon Street near Torrey Lane just before 8 p.m. on Friday. Police sources said the incident and description of the man who groped the teen fit previous groping incidents in Princeton. There are more than a dozen other similar groping incidents that have been…
The Mercer County Police Chiefs Association sent a statement to the press this week about the killing of George Floyd. In the statement, the group promises to host community engagement sessions in the coming weeks and months, but no details are provided in the letter regarding dates or times for such sessions. The sessions are…
A 22-year-old Princeton woman was killed early Thursday morning in a hit-and-run crash in North Brunswick on a state highway, police said. Alysa Kristjanson was struck by a vehicle while she was walking along Route 130 near the Dunkin Donuts just before 1 a.m., according to a joint statement from the North Brunswick Police and the Middlesex…
The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Ewing Police Department are investigating the death of a Pennsylvania woman that occurred on Glen Stewart Drive in Ewing Township on Monday. At about 6:30 p.m. on Monday, police were alerted that there was a dead female in a home on Glen Stewart Drive. When they arrived…
Law enforcement officials across Mercer County have been coordinating with the New Jersey State Police and increasing patrols at locations that are potential targets for looting like malls and jewelry stores. In Princeton, rumors spread that a jewelry store on Nassau Street had been looted. The rumors were false. Police were outside the store as…
A 55-year-old woman from Lawrenceville died in a crash on Route 130 in South Brunswick on Memorial Day. Just after 7:30 a.m., a 24-year-old man from Staten Island who was driving a 2016 Nissan was traveling northbound on Route 130 approaching the Ridge Road area when he lost control of his vehicle, spun out, crossed…
