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Unedited entries from the Red Bank police logs, April 25 through May 2. Criminal Mischief occurring at N. Bridge Ave. on 4-28-08. Employee of business reported that two unknown males entered restroom and broke the glass in vanity mirror. Ptl....
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May 5th, 2008 @ 11am
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Terence Wilkins, the Red Bank Middle School principal indicted earlier this week in an alleged arson and insurance fraud scheme, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in an Essex County courtroom today, the Asbury Park Press reports. Wilkins was indicted...
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 4pm
Principal Terence Wilkins Red Bank Middle School Principal Terence Wilkins has been indicted by an Essex County grand jury in connection with a scheme to have his leased car stolen and torched, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. From the...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 11am
A "relentless serial burglar" who authorities say targeted the homes of women and photographed them while they slept has been indicted by a Monmouth County Grand Jury, according to reports in today's Asbury Park Press and Star-Ledger. Mauro Vasquez-Galvan, 27,...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 7am
From the borough police logs for the wek of April 18 through April 25. Entries are unedited. Theft occurring at W. Front St.—Riverside Gardens on 4-19-08. Victim reported that she inadvertently left her purse hanging on the fence and left...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an assault on a 15-year-old boy on Marion Street Monday evening. According to Chief Mark Fitzgerald, the victim, who had been rollerblading on the basketball court at East Side Park, was skating...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank Court Clerk Fran Pastoriza at last night's budget Q&A at borough hall. A dog-and-pony show last night on the proposed 2008-'09 Red Bank budget included a plea for higher municipal court penalties for violations such as drinking in...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 7am
From the borough police logs. Entries are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 4-12-08 in the rear of Broad St Parking Lot. Victim reported that unknown person(s) damaged his parked vehicle by denting and scratching the driver’s side and passenger side,...
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April 21st, 2008 @ 7am
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from April 4 through 11. The information is supplied by the police department. Criminal Mischief occurring at Linden Place on 4-6-08 report of a wooden planter being turned over and...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 6am
A 50-year-old New York City man was arrested in Red Bank early Monday morning on a charge of impersonating a police officer, according to a news release from the borough police department. Richard Braunstein, who was identified by the Asbury...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Appearing in state Superior Court in Freehold to answer three attempted-murder charges and related weapons counts, Anthony Sims Jr. pleaded not guilty yesterday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Sims, 19, of Eatontown was arrested in a drug raid in Highlands...
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April 15th, 2008 @ 6am
Yesterday's lockdown at Rumson-Fair Haven High was prompted by a terroristic threat sent by a 17-year-old Ocean Township boy in an instant message to a 16-year-old female student, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The threat was neither sent to the...
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April 10th, 2008 @ 5am
William Neumann, a Fair Haven furniture retailer who's faced repeated allegations of failing to deliver thousands of dollars worth of paid-for goods, has agreed to be barred from doing business in New Jersey, today's Star-Ledger reports. Last week, consumer affairs...
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5am
A man said by authorities to be a Red Bank resident was indicted today for swindling $161,000 from an investor in an iced tea company that turned out to be bogus, according to an announcement by the New Jersey Attorney...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from March 14 through March 20. The information is supplied by the police department and is both unverified and unedited. Theft occurring on East Newman Springs Rd. on 3-14-08. Victim...
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March 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Five adults and 19 juveniles were taken into custody on alcohol charges during a party in a Sea Bright apartment last Friday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Around 10 p.m. Friday, Patrolman Charles Murphy and Detective...
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March 20th, 2008 @ 6am
A Little Silver man faces a host of weapon- and motor vehicle-related charges after his arrest early Sunday in connection with two crashes involving parked vehicles. According to a press release issued today by Red Bank Police Department, an off-duty...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 4pm
A 24-year-old Ocean County man suspected of strangling his 15-year-old female cousin to death is in custody after being arrested at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank Police have confirmed. Garry Zigich Jr. had been admitted to the hospital "for suicidal...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 3pm
Turns out there's a doozie of a story behind that train delay redbankgreen reported earlier today. Red Bank police say a motorist who ran a red light downtown early this morning decided he'd try to lose a police officer pursuing...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 2pm
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from March 7 through March 14. The information is supplied by the police department and is both unverified and unedited. Burglary occurring in multi dwelling at Shrewsbury Ave. on 3-7-08....
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March 17th, 2008 @ 7am
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 ...