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• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Woodbridge crime: Car stolen from church parking lot in Iselin; burglary at home for sale   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ –A township man returned Wednesday to find his car had been stolen from a church parking lot on Oak Tree Road, police said. The 29-year-old victim told police he parked his 2010 BMW 535 outside the First Presbyterian Church at noon Jan. 20. It was missing when he returned about 2 p.m. Wednesday. The [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Woodbridge crime: Marijuana seized from car, Iselin home   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ –Investigators arrested a township man earlier this month after seeing 3 pounds of marijuana in “plain view” on his passenger’s seat during a traffic stop, officials said. Phuoc Pham , 36, is charged with possession of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute. Officers spotted the marijuana on the passenger’s seat of Pham’s Toyota 4Runner during [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Burglars take cash, cigarettes after ransacking Avenel liquor store   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A crew of burglars trashed an Avenel liquor store early Tuesday before taking cigarettes and about $500 in cash, police said. The burglary at Avwood Bar Liquor Mart, 971 Rahway Ave., was discovered around 6:45 a.m. by a neighboring business owner, who found the front glass door shattered and called police. Surveillance video [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: UPDATE: Officials search for cause of fire at East Brunswick bike shop   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  EAST BRUNSWICK — Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a fire Wednesday morning that damaged a Route 18 bicycle shop and its two neighboring stores, officials said. Firefighters responded just before 6:50 a.m. to an alarm at Planet Bike, 1177 Route 18 South, police said. Callers reported seeing flames come through the roof; [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: East Brunswick cops search for robber who forced victim into car   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  EAST BRUNSWICK – Police are searching for a robber who forced a woman into his car in East Brunswick last week and threatened to shoot her before fleeing with cash, officials said Tuesday. The 21-year-old victim told police she was taking a bus from Perth Amboy to East Brunswick, arriving about 5:15 p.m. Thursday at Old [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Two dead in crash near NJ Turnpike Exit 11 in Woodbridge   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Two people were killed Tuesday afternoon in a crash near Exit 11 of the New Jersey in Woodbridge, authorities said. The collision, which involved a car and a tractor-trailer, occurred about 12:40 p.m. in the southbound truck lanes, New Jersey State Police Capt. Frank Davis said. An ongoing investigation has caused authorities to [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Sewaren man convicted of sexually assaulting 13-year-old   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Woodbridge man faces up to 25 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor in Union County, authorities said Thursday. Jose Tavera , 39, of the township’s Sewaren section was found guilty after a trial in state Superior Court, Elizabeth, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said. The jury found him [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Port Reading fire leaves man fighting for life   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  UPDATE: Stephen Competello died Jan 21. WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Woodbridge man remained in critical condition Thursday, three days after he was injured in a fire at his home in Port Reading on the Carteret border, authorities said. Stephen Competello , 56, was left unresponsive and hospitalized after the blaze on Willow Street, which is considered accidental in nature, [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Robber threatens to shoot victim in Menlo Park Terrace   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A gunman stopped a woman who was walking to work through Menlo Park Terrace on Monday and threatened to shoot her before fleeing with her purse, police said. The victim, 37, told police she was walking to White Castle along Menlo Avenue at 6:30 a.m. when a red sedan traveled past her, turned around [...]

• Joshua Burd wrote a new blog post: Man charged in Woodbridge convenience store robbery, suspected in other holdups   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Newark man has been charged with slashing a convenience store clerk during a robbery in the Menlo Park Terrace section of Woodbridge last week, police said. Edgardo Melendez , 30, was arrested Friday night and is a suspect in four other recent robberies in the area, Woodbridge police Capt. Roy Hoppock said. He is charged [...]