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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a former Lenape High School teacher was sentenced today to five years in New Jersey state prison for recording upskirt videos and taking photos of female students last year in his classroom and the school’s hallways. Eric T. Howell, 44, of the first block …

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MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Superior Court jury today found a Tabernacle man guilty of murder for strangling a Lumberton Township resident inside her home in the summer of 2016. William M. Gennett, 54, was convicted of one count of Murder (First Degree) for the asphyxiation of Shannon …

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MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a former U.S. Air Force military police officer was found guilty today of causing an automobile accident in Bordentown Township in late 2015 that killed two people, including her estranged husband. Shade Cooper, 28, of East Granby, Connecticut, was convicted by a jury in …

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MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that a Burlington Township man was sentenced today to 24 years in New Jersey state prison for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in Willingboro in 2015. Eramus Canty, 34, must serve 85 percent of the sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Canty pled guilty …

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