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Category Archives: Law & Justice

FAIR HAVEN SWEARS IN NEW CHIEF
Jim Cerruti was sworn in Friday as Fair Haven’s fire chief, a duty he’s been filling since November. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Although he really took overContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN SWEARS IN NEW CHIEF"
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January 4th, 2010 @ 6am
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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
Mayor Pasquale Menna tells redbankgreen that acting Police Chief Steve McCarthy won’t be given the chief’s job on Sunday, as we reported here earlier today. Without explanation, Menna says McCarthyContinue reading "MENNA: McCARTHY TO REMAIN ACTING CHIEF"
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December 30th, 2009 @ 8pm
McCARTHY TO BECOME POLICE CHIEF
Acting Chief Steve McCarthy is expected to be sworn in Sunday to formally take command of Red Bank’s 41-officer police department, redbankgreen has learned. McCarthy, right, follows retired Chief MarkContinue reading "McCARTHY TO BECOME POLICE CHIEF"
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December 30th, 2009 @ 12pm
A 26-year-old Long Branch man was charged with drunk driving and possession of cocaine after a dramatic crash on East Bergen Place Tuesday night, Red Bank police say. Soukchind Thavone,Continue reading "DWI, DRUG CHARGES IN EAST BERGEN CRASH"
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December 30th, 2009 @ 11am
CRASH SENDS SUV FLYING & DRIVER RUNNING
The aftermath included two toppled vehicles on the lawn at 71 East Bergen Place. (Click to enlarge) A high-speed crash sent a parked SUV flying  from its spot in aContinue reading "CRASH SENDS SUV FLYING & DRIVER RUNNING"
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December 29th, 2009 @ 11pm
The BBC reports this morning that David Goldman of Tinton Falls has been reunited with his 9-year-old son after a half-decade-long international custody battle. The event occurred at the U.S.Continue reading "REPORT: FATHER & SON REUNITED IN BRAZIL"
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December 24th, 2009 @ 7am
A ruling late yesterday by Brazil’s top jurist appeared to put Tinton Falls resident David Goldman within legal reach of the son he has been trying to repatriate in aContinue reading "GOLDMAN CLEARS KEY CUSTODY HURDLE"
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December 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of December 11 to December 18, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at W. SunsetContinue reading "NOT MUCH INK ON THIS WEEK’S BLOTTER"
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December 22nd, 2009 @ 8am
Wind whips snow off rooftops downtown on Broad Street during a storm on March 2, 2009. The Red Bank Police Department is asking residents to move their cars to off-streetContinue reading "‘SNOW PARKING, PLEASE, IF IT SNOWS"
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December 18th, 2009 @ 3pm
[Editor’s note: See update at the end of this article] The Asbury Park Press reports that five Red Bank residents were arrested in a raid that netted three pounds ofContinue reading "PRESS: FIVE BUSTED IN POT HAUL"
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December 17th, 2009 @ 7am
Red Bank police took four minors into custody Sunday following a fire in the garage of a vacant Bank Street house on Sunday. In a press release issued this afternoon,Continue reading "POLICE NAB FOUR JUVENILES FOR GARAGE FIRE"
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December 14th, 2009 @ 4pm
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of December 4 to December 11, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 12-3-09 atContinue reading "REPORTS INCLUDE STOLEN ELECTRICITY METER"
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December 14th, 2009 @ 10am
ON THE DOCKET: TINY TOWN’S CASELOAD
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Red Bank’s municipal court will be adding to its caseload, albeit lightly, beginning next month. Under a deal finalized by the Red Bank council last night, theContinue reading "ON THE DOCKET: TINY TOWN’S CASELOAD"
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December 9th, 2009 @ 7am
RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER
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Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of November 27 to December 4, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Broad St.Continue reading "RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER"
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December 8th, 2009 @ 9am
FOLEY’S WRECK CAUSED SECOND CRASH
Foley’s SUV in the Atlantic Highlands wrecking yard where it was towed after the accident. (Photo courtesy of Rumson PD) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A motorist crashed into the telephone poleContinue reading "FOLEY’S WRECK CAUSED SECOND CRASH"
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December 3rd, 2009 @ 1pm
[EDITOR’S NOTE: See update below] A redbankgreen reporter was threatened with arrest by Fair Haven police today when he tried to photograph the wrecked fire department vehicle of former fireContinue reading "POLICE THREATEN REPORTER WITH ARREST"
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December 2nd, 2009 @ 2pm
FOLEY CRASH WAS SECOND IN 20 MONTHS
The sheared stump of the utility pole struck by Foley’s car on East River Road was still there Monday, more than a week after the accident. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI [EDITOR’SContinue reading "FOLEY CRASH WAS SECOND IN 20 MONTHS"
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December 2nd, 2009 @ 1pm
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the weeks of  November 20 to November 27, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief reported on 11-20-09 atContinue reading "BLOTTER INCLUDES THREE DWI CHARGES"
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December 1st, 2009 @ 7am
Shaun Foley has quit his post as Fair Haven’s fire chief following a bizarre series of incidents Sunday night that began with a car crash and ended with a massiveContinue reading "PRESS: FOLEY RESIGNS, FACES DUI CHARGE"
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November 24th, 2009 @ 10pm
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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 ...