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Category Archives: Law & Justice

Two Montgomery Terrace residents confer with Human Relations Commmittee member Henry Tindall, center, and Red Bank Police Lt. Mike Clay after last night's HRC meeting. Montgomery Terrace residents last night called for more attentive policing, leaseholder ID cards and other...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 9am
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With authorities clamping down tight on information about Monday night's shooting at Montgomery Terrace, details that might normally be available can only be teased out from a rumor mill of sometimes conflicting accounts. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's office, which is...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 8am
Unless there's an arrest of the gunman, authorities don't plan to release any new information soon about the Monday night shooting at Montgomery Terrace, including the names and conditions of the two victims, redbankgreen has learned. The victims, whose names,...
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November 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Today's Star-Ledger says the shootings of two men at Montgomery Terrace Monday night does not appear to have been gang- or drug related, attributing that info to Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin. An assistant prosecutor whom redbankgreen spoke to last...
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November 28th, 2007 @ 6am
Montgomery Terrace on Tilton Avenue, scene of Monday night's shooting. Two men are in critical but stable condition at an unidentified hospital this evening after being shot outside the Montgomery Terrace apartments late last night, according to the Monmouth County...
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November 27th, 2007 @ 4pm
Red Bank Police confirm that there was a shooting late last night at Montgomery Terrace, a borough-owned, subsidized housing complex on Tilton Avenue. But the only information we've been able to learn is that the victim, whose name and gender...
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November 27th, 2007 @ 3pm
Borough residents want the speed limit north of the downtown lowered to 35 mph. Here, at the south end, it's 30 mph as you head north into the business district. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright residents want to take...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 2pm
Graffiti that Red Bank police say refers to the Sureno 13 gang is visible in several locations, including this railroad gate on Drs. James Parker Boulevard. By TIM HATHAWAY Is gang activity a problem in the Red Bank area? "Right...
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November 14th, 2007 @ 10am
A beer-keg registration ordinance adopted by Red Bank in May is on tap for revocation tonight, following a little-publicized rejection of the law by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control. The borough's ordinance was similar to ones passed in Belmar, Freehold,...
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November 12th, 2007 @ 10am
Red Bank Police are reporting today that a man was abducted at gunpoint, beaten and robbed at dusk Monday, and that a 21-year-old suspect is in custody. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, two officers — Sgt. Eliot Ramos and Det....
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November 7th, 2007 @ 1pm
A Long Branch man was in the Monmouth County jail on $101,000 bail following his capture, escape and re-arrest by Red Bank police on burglary and other charges yesterday. The incident began when the occupant of a Shrewsbury Avenue apartment...
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November 2nd, 2007 @ 4pm
He's wanted in connection with last weekend's attempted robbery, kidnapping and assault of a Red Bank man. The suspect is one of three men sought by police, says Capt. Steve McCarthy, who heads the detective division. The assailants are alleged...
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November 2nd, 2007 @ 2pm
William Neumann, the Fair Haven wicker-furniture dealer who was arrested in March for defrauding 83 customers out of $290,000, has been indicted, the Asbury Park Press reports. The indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County grand jury on Monday, reduced...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 2pm
Another day, another mailboxful of slime. Today's delivery includes the same attack-and-counterattack voters (and, presumably, ex-voters) have gotten accustomed to in recent weeks. But one item in particular stands out not only from today's load, but from much of what's...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 2pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story on Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck's three license suspensions, which have been publicized by her opponent for the 12th-district state Senate seat, incumbent Ellen Karcher. The most recent suspension was in 1995, and Beck hasn't...
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October 30th, 2007 @ 6am
It appears that Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck of Red Bank, in attacking 12th-district Senate opponent Ellen Karcher over Karcher's use of a state farmland assessment program, has put herself at odds with one of her own backers: Judith Stanley Coleman. Today's...
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October 28th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police are seeking three men for questioning in connection with an argument that resulted in a Catherine Street resident getting punched in the face Monday night, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. No gun was involved, police said,...
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October 23rd, 2007 @ 9pm
Prosecutors in Hudson County have offered Jersey City cop Kevin Freibott of Middletown a plea deal that would send him to prison for 11 years for his alleged role in the DWI death of a two-year-old boy in January, the...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI If Middletown police have their way, underage drinkers won't even think about buying beer in the township. "We have a zero-tolerance policy," says Sgt. Darren Schwedes, coordinator of an $8,000 state grant for the "Cops in...
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October 18th, 2007 @ 7am
The numbers of rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and larcenies reported in Red Bank soared from 2005 to 2006, according to new crime data released today by the State Police. The 2006 Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime...
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October 16th, 2007 @ 3pm
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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 ...