Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Brick couple accused of abusing 'Sammy' the cocker spaniel
The Brick couple accused of animal cruelty after claiming they found a dog in a garbage bag by the side of the road in March will face a maximum of six months in jail if convicted, a judge said Monday afternoon. Keith E. Morgan and Shauna Ewing Morgan of Sawmill Road were arraigned Monday afternoon by Judge Robert M. LePore in Brick Township Municipal Court, accused of animal cruelty, falsifying a police report and more, in connection with abandoning their cocker spaniel, now known as Sammy, whose story had drawn followers across the country. “These are disorderly persons offenses,” LePore said, adding New Jersey law allows a maximum of a six-month jail sentence for charges arising from the same event. That news did not sit well with the …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Wall Township police arrest woman after motor vehicle stop
A Point Borough woman was charged with heroin possession and a contempt of court warrant in Wall, according to police. Samara Katz, 41, was arrested at about 2:30 a.m. May 9 on a contempt of court warrant after a motor vehicle stop on Atlantic Avenue in Wall and then charged with heroin possession, police said. Katz was subsequently transported to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in lieu of $15,000.00 bail. Patrolman Adam Cox was the arresting officer. Also on May 9, at approximately 12:30 a.m., David DePasquale, 21, Toms River, was arrested for heroin possession and possession of drug paraphernalia, subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Highway 35 in Wall. Also arrested for the same offenses was a 17 year old passenger in …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
William Dailey, Wall, and a Nutley man plead guilty to federal charges
A Wall man and a Nutley man, former sales representatives of Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) admitted today to conspiring with others to bribe doctors to refer patient blood samples to BLS, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. William Dailey, 41, of Wall, and Peter Breihof, 42, of Nutley, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler, sitting in Newark, to charges of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Federal Travel Act, according to a prepared statement from the US Attorney's office. The statement continues: "According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: On April 9, 2013, federal agents arrested BLS president and part-owner, David Nicoll, 39, of Mountain Lakes…
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Arrest was made on Bay Avenue
A Point Pleasant man was arrested last night on Bay Avenue in the Borough without incident by Borough Detectives Lt. Adam Picca, Joseph Hynes and Michelle Hill after an investigation into drug activity in the neighborhood. Gerardo V. Morales, 30, Bay Avenue, was charged with second degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance (17 grams of cocaine) with intent to distribute and third degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance (cocaine). He is being held at the Ocean County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail set by Superior Court Judge Joseph Foster. An official at the jail said the suspect is listed in their computer system as "Gerardo Valdivia Morales" and was still lodged at the jail as of 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Held at Ocean County jail on $200,000 bail
A Lakewood man has been arrested and charged in the April 8 armed robbery of the Walgreen's pharmacy, 1501 Richmond Ave. (Route 35 South), Point Pleasant Borough. John W. Praznic, 29, was arrested without incident on Friday April 26, in Lakewood by Point Pleasant Detectives Edward Miller and Joseph Hynes and Detective Lt. Adam Picca after an extensive investigation, according to Borough police. Praznic was charged with first degree armed robbery, third degree terroristic threats and third degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, police said in a prepared statement issued Monday morning. He is being held at the Ocean County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail set by Superior Court Judge Francis Hodgson. Praznic's photo is from …
Monday, April 22, 2013
A federal magistrate went to the hospital as a sealed complaint was filed against the bombing suspect.
A federal magistrate visited the bedside of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the surviving marathon bombing suspect was charged with the crime. Tsarnaev is charged with unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely, an improvised explosive device) against persons and property within the United States. He is also charged with using an explosive to maliciously damage and destroy real and personal property used in interstate and foreign commerce and actively affecting interstate and foreign commerce resulting in personal injury and death. Tsarnaev remains in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to the FBI. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said this afternoon that Tsarnaev will be …
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sammy will move to a foster home, hospital staff says
The cocker spaniel who authorities charge was brought to an animal shelter by his abuser was released from a Monmouth County animal hospital Monday. "Sammy," estimated to be about 13 or 14 years old, was brought to the Monmouth County Animal Shelter by Keith Morgan, 56, of Brick, who told staff that he and his wife, Shauna Ewing Morgan, 43, found the dog in a garbage bag on the side of Belmar Boulevard in Wall. But authorities later said an investigation showed the couple owned the dog, who was covered in feces and urine and encased in its own matted fur, unable to walk. Less than a month later, Sammy walked out of the Red Bank Veterinary Hospital on his own, a social media post from the hospital said Monday. "It is with happy tears that…
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Accident at Bridge and Beaver Dam leads to a careless driving charge
A 17-year-old girl from Jackson was charged with careless driving after allegedly hitting a car driven by an 82-year-old woman from Brick at Bridge Avenue and Beaver Dam Road, police said Thursday. Police were called to the scene at 8:26 a.m. Wednesday. A 2005 Hyundai driven westbound on Bridge Avenue by the 17-year-old made a left turn onto Beaver Dam Road southbound, cutting off a vehicle traveling east on Bridge Avenue, said Captain Richard Larsen. The driver from Brick was transported to Ocean Medical Center in Brick for a complaint of chest pain. Both vehicles were towed from the accident scene. The accident was investigated by Officer Robert Wells. Police do not disclose names of minors or victims.
Expert: DiGilio's boat had right of way; prosecution: lack of lights made him forfeit right of way
Anthony DiGilio's guilt or innocence on charges of vehicular homicide and assault by vessel will likely hinge on a few specific issues: whether his boat's navigation lights were on at the time he collided with another boater, and whether his speed was reckless given the conditions on the water at the time. The accident took place after 1 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008 near Gunner's Ditch, the area where the Metedeconk River and Barnegat Bay converge in Brick Township. The trial of DiGilio, a Brick resident, began Wednesday, over four years later. Senior Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Hillary Bryce said in an opening statement in Superior Court in Toms River on Wednesday that she will present witness testimony from a security guard at the Wharfside …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Brick resident facing vehicular homicide, assault by vessel charges
Brick resident Anthony DiGilio was described in court on Wednesday as both a reckless boater who sped away from an accident scene, leaving five people adrift in the dark of night, and a husband and father whose boat was cut off on his way home from a night out on the water with friends, resulting in a tragic accident. DiGilio's trial for the Aug. 3, 2008 boating accident on the Metedeconk River that claimed the life of 49-year-old Robert Post, an Essex Fells resident, began Wednesday with opening statements from Senior Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Hillary Bryce and defense attorney Joseph Tacopina. Superior Court Judge Francis Hodgson's Toms River court room was packed with family members and friends of Post – so packed that Ocean …
Angelo
11:29 am on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Anyone that could treat any animal in the way these pieces of garbage treated Sammy, then bring him in with a completely fabricated story that the animal was found on the side of the road in that condition are no effing good. Not only did they abuse the poor senior dog, they then had pictures taken at the shelter showing Keith “Chip” Morgan as a hero for saving the animal. He then filed utterly … more ›