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A stockbroker from Fair Haven is looking at seven years in prison under the terms of a plea deal he accepted yesterday for pocketing nearly $700,000 he swindled from 31Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN BROKER COPS TO $700K SCAM"
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February 17th, 2010 @ 7am
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A Red Bank man appears headed into the state prison system he admitted scamming out of $153,000, the New Jersey Attorney General‘s office announced yesterday. Mark Stermer, 43, pleaded guiltyContinue reading "LOCAL MEN FACE PRISON FOR PRISON SCAM"
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February 17th, 2010 @ 6am
The trial of alleged Montgomery Terrace shooter Anthony Sims got underway in Freehold last week, and going by the coverage in the Asbury Park Press, it sounds like a trashfest:Continue reading "ACCUSATIONS FLY AT SIMS TRIAL"
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February 10th, 2010 @ 8am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 29 to February 5, 2010. This information appears here unedited. Shoplifting incident occurring at Broad St.-PharmacyContinue reading "FROM THE RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER"
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February 8th, 2010 @ 7am
SELLER BUSTED IN QUICKIE LEMON RESALE
Middletown police arrested a township man for theft by deception and other charges last week after he quickly resold a car he bought as a junker, they allege. The purportedContinue reading "SELLER BUSTED IN QUICKIE LEMON RESALE"
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February 1st, 2010 @ 11am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 15 to January 22, 2010. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring on 1-15-10 at BroadContinue reading "BLOTTER: A CUPFUL OF WHAT??? OH, YUCK!"
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January 25th, 2010 @ 2pm
MIDDLETOWN COPS BUST BURGLARY RING
Police in Middletown say they have arrested an illegal immigrant from Honduras who used at least one juvenile to help him pull off a yearlong string of burglaries in thatContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN COPS BUST BURGLARY RING"
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January 21st, 2010 @ 1pm
Red Bank Police issued the following alert this afternoon: Red Bank Police are investigating a suspicious incident that occurred at approximately 1 PM on Prospect Avenue. Two male subjects claimingContinue reading "POLICE ISSUE ALERT"
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January 20th, 2010 @ 2pm
Customers of a penny-stock boiler room that operated out of an office on Half Mile Road in Lincroft will share in $5.15 million obtained by authorities from stock swindler RobertContinue reading "SWINDLED INVESTORS TO GET $5.15 MILLION"
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January 19th, 2010 @ 9am
A man alleged to have robbed a string of local banks while wearing a hoodie in recent weeks escaped from police custody yesterday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Twenty-five-year oldContinue reading "HOODIE ROBBER RECAPTURED AFTER ESCAPE"
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January 19th, 2010 @ 6am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 8 to January 15, 2010. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring on 1-7-10 at BroadContinue reading "BLOTTER: CLOTHING DONATION BOXES RAIDED"
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January 18th, 2010 @ 9am
The Asbury Park Press reported Friday that two Long Branch men were arrested and charged for their alleged roles in a string of recent bank robberies featuring a hoodie-wearing thief.Continue reading "PAIR ARRESTED FOR HOODIE BANK JOBS"
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January 18th, 2010 @ 7am
Samson Theodore ‘Freedom’ Hearn, center, and Eric Joel ‘Pun’ Figueras, right, have agreed to testify at the trial of alleged gunman Antonio  ‘Mingo’ Suarez-Perez, left. Two of the three menContinue reading "TWO COP PLEAS IN LOCUST AVE. MURDERS"
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January 18th, 2010 @ 6am
McCARTHY TAKES COMMAND AT RBPD
Chief Steve McCarthy shortly before his swearing in Monday night with his immediate predecessor, Mark Fitzgerald, left, and Councilman Art Murphy. (Click to enlarge) An overflow crowd packed Red Bank’sContinue reading "McCARTHY TAKES COMMAND AT RBPD"
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January 12th, 2010 @ 7am
A hoodie-wearing bank robber believed to have struck financial institutions in Eatontown and Middletown in the past week is now being sought by police in Red Bank following a middayContinue reading "HOODIE HOOD HITS RED BANK… BANK"
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January 11th, 2010 @ 9pm
DO YOU KNOW THIS HOOD IN A HOODIE?
Police dogs couldn’t find him, but maybe one of our readers recognizes this guy who Middletown Police say robbed the Bank of America branch on Route 35 at Navesink RiverContinue reading "DO YOU KNOW THIS HOOD IN A HOODIE?"
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January 11th, 2010 @ 3pm
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 1 to January 7, 2010. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 1-1-10 atContinue reading "POLICE BLOTTER"
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January 11th, 2010 @ 5am
The alleged assault on a borough man occurred at the borough police station, the Press reports. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A Little Silver police officer was arrested Thursday afternoon for allegedlyContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER COP ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT"
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January 8th, 2010 @ 1pm
ALL-DEM COUNCIL PLEDGES ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’
Mayor Pasquale Menna arrives at Sunday’s reorganization meeting, followed by Council President Art Murphy. (Click to enlarge) Entering a year in which the electoral prize will be Red Bank’s mayoralty,Continue reading "ALL-DEM COUNCIL PLEDGES ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’"
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January 4th, 2010 @ 12pm
A post-party melee outside a Red Bank social club early Saturday morning drew a police response from at least ten local departments and resulted in three arrests, police report. CaptainContinue reading "BRAWL OUTSIDE CLUB ENDS IN THREE ARRESTS"
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January 2nd, 2010 @ 4pm
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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 ...