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The scene on Route 36 in Eatontown, where police from Red Bank and other towns apprehended a motorist in connection with a bank robbery in Middletown. Authorities have now arrested the brother of an Eatontown man already in custody on...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 6am
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Entries in the Red Bank police log from June 6 to June 13. Items are unedited. Theft occurring on 6-6-08 at Maple Ave.—parking lot. Victim reported a smashed car window and GPS unit was stolen. Ptl. Paul Perez. Theft occurring...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press has details about that motorist Mayor Mike Halfacre wrote about on his blog yesterday, the guy who is alleged to have nearly struck emergency workers at the scene of downed wires. Charles Hermansen II, 46, was...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Firefighters and other rescue personnel on the scene of a fire at Rumson Road and Buena Vista Place in Rumson last night. Wow, who needs reporters when there's blogging Mayor Mike Halfacre? In a post on his site today, Halfacre...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 9am
From the police log, May 30 to June 6. Entries are unedited. Theft occurring at Leighton Ave. on 6-1-08. Victim reported that while unloading trays of food from vehicle and carrying them into the house, four juvenile subject(s) unknown stole...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 6am
An Eatontown man was arrested in Long Pond, Pa. on Saturday in connection with last week's robbery of a Bank of America branch on Route 35 in Middletown, the Asbury Park Press reports. Authorities are now waiting to see if...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 6am
A man reported to have been an owner or co-owner of Teak restaurant on Monmouth Street and other upscale eateries was convicted Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan of conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana. Marc Munson,...
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June 5th, 2008 @ 12am
Ponceno Records, scene of the December robbery and stabbing. Two young Bronx men have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in last December's robbery of Ponceno Records on Shrewsbury Avenue, which left the store's owner bound and bleeding...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
Investigators now have doubts that a one-armed man taken into custody as a suspect in a Middletown bank robbery late this morning is the guy they're looking for. "We had a car pulled over, but we're not sure if the...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 3pm
The suspect vehicle on Route 36 in Eatontown at about noon. Red Bank police apparently had a hand in the arrest of man suspected of robbing a Bank of America branch on Route 35 in Middletown late this morning. No...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 1pm
Entries from the week of May 23 through May 30. Items are unedited. Theft occurring between 5-16-08 and 5-23-08 at West Front Street business. Victim reported that several pieces of sterling silver were stolen from case. Ptl. George Travostino. Theft...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Lakehurst police arrested a Red Bank man on charges that he is an undocumented alien, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The arrest of Alfredo Hernandez-Perez, 18, followed a minor motor vehicle collision on Saturday afternoon, the newspaper says. During an...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
State Police investigators don't suspect foul play in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in the Navesink River Sunday, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. The corpse of 71-year-old James Roffler of Little Silver was...
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May 27th, 2008 @ 12pm
Entries in the borough police logs from May 16 to May 23. Items are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Catherine St. on 5-16-08—Victim reported that unknown person(s) shattered car window. Ptl. Gary Watson. Criminal Mischief occurring at West Sunset Residence...
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May 27th, 2008 @ 7am
Sunday's Asbury Park Press had a story that took a closer work at the detective work that led last month to the indictment of alleged Red Bank serial burglar Mauro Vasquez-Galvan. The article focuses on the detailed effort to trace...
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May 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank police have charged a Tinton Falls woman in a string of cases in which she's alleged to have pretended to be either a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency officer. Maria Collins, 41, of Buford Place is in...
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May 13th, 2008 @ 12pm
A New York attorney arrested in Red Bank last month in a bizarre case of alleged police impersonation has been busted again, this time for making lewd comments to a Little Silver teenager, the Asbury Park Press reports. The latest...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 12pm
Red Bank police are sorting through the details of an assault case that sent two people to the hospital early this morning. Under arrest and now being treated at Riverview Medical Center is 29-year-old Johnny Campos of Spring Street, says...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 9am
Two men identified as Red Bank residents were arraigned in Freehold yesterday on charges arising from an alleged bid-rigging scheme centered on the state prison system, where one of them was employed, today's Star-Ledger reports. Gerald Kennedy and Mark Sterner...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Terence Wilkins The Red Bank school board last night announced, and accepted, the resignation of the Terence Wilkins as middle school principal, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The action came a week after Wilkins was indicted on arson and insurance...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 5am
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...