MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a man whose girlfriend died after the car he was driving plunged into the Delaware River in Burlington City earlier this year admitted today in Superior Court to causing her death. Under an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, Jacob T. Garrett, 25, pled guilty to …

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Willingboro woman was sentenced today to 24 years in New Jersey state prison for fatally beating her husband with a fire extinguisher inside their township residence early last year. Under the state’s No Early Release Act, Laciana Tinsley, 44, must serve 85 percent …

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Medford Township pastor was sentenced today to 18 years in New Jersey state prison for sexually assaulting four juveniles and having inappropriate interaction with a fifth one over a multi-year period ending in 2015. The sentence handed down by the Hon. Jeanne T. Covert, …

Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick J. Callahan announced today that the parents of a four-month-old boy who suffocated in February at the motel where the family was living have been charged with Murder in connection with his death. William Herring, 42 and Brianna Brochhausen, 22, whose residence at …

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Cherry Hill man was indicted today for abandoning a person who was experiencing a heroin overdose in Evesham last year. A Burlington County Grand Jury found that Peter Baron Jr., 35, “did recklessly engage in conduct which created a substantial risk or death to …

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Pemberton Township man pled guilty today to fatally shooting his former employer in the victim’s Tabernacle Township home during the summer of 2016. David M. Stead, 44, of the 800 block of Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, admitted in Superior Court before the Hon. Terrence R. Cook, …

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Burlington City man who fatally stabbed the mother of his child in her Mount Holly home was sentenced today to 50 years in New Jersey state prison. Rashon A. Causey, 40, must serve more than 42 years before becoming eligible for parole. He …

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Pemberton Township man has been indicted for fatally attacking his wife earlier this year with a hammer and knife at their home in the Browns Mills section of the township. Kenneth D. Arsenault, 59, of the first block of Cochita Trail, was indicted on …

Law enforcement investigating whether additional crimes occurred Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Maple Shade Police Chief Gary Gubbei announced that a 21-year-old Camden man has been charged with manufacturing child pornography and sexually assaulting a young girl in Maple Shade earlier this year. Jermaine J. Ward, of the 1000 block of Carl Miller Boulevard, …

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that the former chief of the Maple Shade First Aid Squad was sentenced yesterday in Superior Court to three years in New Jersey state prison for stealing more than $118,000 from the agency over a period of nearly seven years. Joseph J. Freed III, 54, of …