Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Council approved the hire of special officers as well as an increase in the percentage it pays to Point Pleasant Beach to run its court.
Court costs are rising in Point Pleasant Borough, but officials said its shared service agreement with neighbor Point Pleasant Beach still represents a savings compared to the past practice of each town running its own municipal court. Following concerns from Point Beach that police overtime was driving up the cost of doing court business, Point Borough responded by agreeing to supply its own officers and cover a higher percentage of court staff salaries. Council unanimously approved a resolution on Tuesday night to cover 25 percent of administrative costs generated by the court, which includes the salaries, pensions, and health care of court employees. That total is up from the 15 percent Point Borough has paid since the two towns …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Plan will help Point Beach save on police overtime
A new way for Point Borough and Point Beach to share a municipal court that will save Point Beach police overtime is up for a vote at Point Borough Council tonight. The revised agreement, negotiated by both towns, finds a way around an expensive conundrum that has cost Point Beach a lot of police overtime since the agreement went into effect in June 2010. Point Beach has had to send regular, full-time police officers and detectives to Point Borough's Borough Hall on Bridge Avenue on Point Beach municipal court days because the Point Beach special police officers, who are paid considerably less, have no authority outside of Point Beach. The new agreement calls for the Borough to use its own special police officers to man the Point Beach …
Friday, December 14, 2012
Jose Luis Marquez sentenced in the death of Kyleigh Sousa in Arizona
An Arizona man was sentenced to life in prison for dragging to death Kyleigh Sousa, a Point Borough woman, near her college in Arizona on May 26, 2010, according to a tweet from the Maricopa County, AZ, court officials. The sentence imposed on Jose Luis Marquez, 22, is life in prison, with a chance of parole, in the murder conviction and two and a half years for a robbery conviction, according to the tweet from the public information office of the Maricopa County Superior Court. Marquez was sentenced by Judge Edward Bassett in Maricopa County Superior Court on Friday after Kyleigh's mother, Karen Montenegro, implored the judge to sentence Marquez to life without parole. The judge rendered his decision of life in prison despite the …
Monday, October 22, 2012
River Avenue residents arrested by Ocean County and local law enforcement
Two River Avenue, Point Borough men were arrested on cocaine charges in an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor's Special Operations Group and the Point Borough police department. Detectives from the Prosecutor’s Special Operations Group along with members of Point Borough Police conducted an investigation into drug activity within the Borough. That investigation resulted in the arrest of two Point Pleasant men and the seizure of approximately thirteen grams of cocaine on Oct. 10, according to information released by the county on Monday. Natalio Hernandez, 27, was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of cocaine under one half ounce with intent to distribute, according to a prepared statement from the county. Superior…
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Former owners said outside bankruptcy court they want to renovate and re-open
The former owners of the OB Diner said outside federal bankruptcy court on Tuesday that they plan to take the place back. "We're going to fix it up and re-open it," said Andreas Kaiafas, standing outside a US Bankruptcy courtroom in Trenton with his brother, Antonios Kaiafas; Costas Kaiafas, Antonios' son; who are principles of former owner Tolis, Inc., and their attorney, Anthony A. Boyadjis. Tolis owned the diner from 1983 until July 2005. And how long will it take to "fix it up?" "That depends how nice we want to make it," said Andreas Kaiafas, smiling broadly. "But if we're going to fix it up, we need to be done before the summer." But they can't take it back yet. Christopher Mitchel, president of Point Pleasant Beach Diner, Inc., …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
But Beach wants more money and a new security plan
Point Beach may be amenable to keeping its municipal court in Point Borough, but the Borough needs to sweeten the pot and solve a security staffing problem. That was generally the sentiment of Point Beach Mayor Vincent Barrella who said on Wednesday that the current financial situation regarding the two towns paying administrative staff has to change. "I don't think the current percentage works," he said, declining to specify dollar amounts and percentages because the towns are still negotiating and any agreement that's struck still needs to be approved by Superior Court Judge Vincent Grasso sitting in Toms River. For many months, Point Beach officials had said they wanted their town's municipal court operations back in their own Borough …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Also: District 4 parking fines not being collected yet
Frank Gualtieri isn't happy about getting a District 4 parking plan ticket. But he never would have come to a Point Beach Council meeting to complain if it didn't require a court appearance. "It was an honest mistake, I didn't know about the parking plan," he told the mayor and council at Tuesday night's meeting at Borough Hall. "I don't have a problem paying it, but I oppose a mandatory court appearance for this. It's a parking ticket!" "You were talking before about negative publicity," Gualtieri told them. "This is why some of it exists." Gualtieri, a former Beach resident who now lives in Brick, is one of many residents and visitors who have started noticing that their District 4 parking tickets have the box checked off for a …
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Mayor says at council meeting, "I won't be intimidated by lawsuits."
A group including a marina, fishing boats and Point Beach residents failed for the second time to convince a court to temporarily put the brakes on the town's new parking plan. Meanwhile, boardwalk businesses have filed their second legal action against the town's effort to close bars at midnight. This time, Jenkinson's and Martell's have filed a lawsuit in Superior Court, which follows an appeal to the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). That's not to be confused with the lawsuit the two largest boardwalk businesses filed to fight the District 4 parking plan. For anyone keeping score, so far, it's Boardwalk 1, Point Beach 2. The Boardwalk win was getting an injunction to be allowed to stay open until 2 a.m. until ABC makes…
Friday, June 8, 2012
Joseph D. Coronato would replace Marlene Lynch Ford
Joseph D. Coronato has been nominated by Gov. Chris Christie to become the new Ocean County prosecutor, pending state senate approval. Coronato, a longtime Toms River resident and attorney, now with the firm of Coronato, Brady and Kunz, 12 Madison Ave., Toms River, would replace Marlene Lynch Ford, who was appointed by Gov. Jon Corzine in June 2007. Coronato could not be reached for comment. The nomination of Coronato was one of three nominations for three different county prosecutor positions made by Christie yesterday. The other two were: James P. McClain for Atlantic County Prosecutor and Frederic M. Knapp for Morris County Prosecutor. Ford said on Friday afternoon that her five-year appointment expires on June 26, but that she would …
Friday, March 11, 2011
Lawsuit over 2009 sea bass shutdown tossed out of federal court
This week, we judge a judge’s decision. First, a hypothetical situation: Let’s say I was able to hack into your bank account, steal some money, but then give you back all the passwords I stole and fade away into the sunset. You probably would still want me to serve some time in the Big House, and have some type of measure put into place to make sure I couldn’t weasel my way in to your account again, right? That’s the exact same thing anglers argued in court after the federal government closed the recreational sea bass fishery under controversial circumstances. On Oct. 5, 2009, the sea bass fishery was closed for seven months after federal regulators went against an overwhelming vote by state representatives and closed access in federal …
Sick and Tired
11:19 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
You are all so much smarter and have all the answers, yet I don't see you running for office. Watch out for yourself and take more than the 5 minutes to read the article to do some actual research and thinking. We have to have a court; we have to pay for a court. It is less costly to share with another town than it is to have our own. Yes, costs rise; what in this world has a declining cost? … more ›