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Category Archives: Law & Justice

Middletown's tax assessor may be benched for 15 days this summer for failing to submit the township data on time to Monmouth County officials, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the article: Should the state Division of Taxation sign off...
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April 10th, 2008 @ 8am
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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
Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon. Six months ago, Declan O'Scanlon was a contender for state Assembly fighting political accusations of cronyism for his work on the Fair Haven cell tower deal. You might think that the last thing O'Scanlon would want to...
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March 28th, 2008 @ 6am
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
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
A Monmouth County jury earlier this week ordered an obstetrician to pay $23 million to a Freehold boy who was severely disabled at his birth at Riverview Medical Center, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The hospital is not identified...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 6am
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
Red Bank police subdued a belligerent man on Spring Street this morning after a bizarre spree in which he confronted a passing motorist, stole her car, and crashed it head-on into another moving vehicle, they say. Joseph Henninger, 26, of...
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March 14th, 2008 @ 5pm
Anthony Sims, the 19-year-old who became a fugitive for two months after a Red Bank shooting that left two men near death in late November, has been indicted for attempted murder, the Asbury Park Press reports. A Monmouth County grand...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 4pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that four people were sent to Riverview Medical Center after a motor vehicle accident on West Bergen Avenue. From the Press: Four people suffered injuries this morning when a car and a pick-up truck...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 8am
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from Feb. 29 through March 7. The information is supplied by the police department and unedited. Robbery occurring on 2-29-08 in the area of Shrewsbury Ave. Victim reported that he...
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March 7th, 2008 @ 5pm
Today's Asbury Park Press, in a story about rising overtime costs for employees of Middletown, reports that seven members of the township police department called in sick on Super Bowl Sunday. The news is contained in the context of a...
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March 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma's appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his Leighton Avenue store's liquor license wrapped up near Trenton today without a decision, the Asbury Park Press reports. Moreover, a ruling probably won't be handed down until summer, and whichever...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 4pm
The lawsuit that redbankgreen reported Red Bank officials had authorized over the Children's Cultural Center has not been filed, and the two sides are continuing to talk, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: The fingers of borough officials...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 6am
It's crunch time, finally, in the long-delayed effort by Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma to save his West Side liquor store from a shutdown over a handful of violations involving sales to minors and other offenses. Last June, the Red Bank Borough...
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March 4th, 2008 @ 11am
Middletown resident Kevin Freibott, a former township police officer, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison yesterday for a car crash that killed a two-year-old boy and left his mother comatose and severely brain-injured, today's Star-Ledger reports. The accident...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
A 19-year-old Red Bank man is being held on $345,000 bail in connection with what police say was an armed burglary of an acquaintance's apartment on Harding Road early Tuesday morning. Prince Johnson was arrested at his West Westside Avenue...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 6am
Let it go, people. Your cellphone that is, while driving. Until now, the state of New Jersey's law against holding your cellphone to your ear while operating a motor vehicle has been easy to flout. Police, if they were to...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
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 ...