Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Arrests of 11 people from Passaic County, with one from South Carolina, involved Bernards Township detectives.
Three Bernards Township residents were among the more than 70 people who made reports to 30 police departments within the last year or so that they were the victims of identity theft, prompting a statewide investigation that led to the arrest of 11 people earlier this month, authorities said. Bernards Township Police Detective William Seiple on Tuesday said the identity theft incidents involving the township residents began in December 2012. Since the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office just announced the arrests at the beginning of May, Seiple said there has been no money returned to those who apparently were the victims of fraud. Ten of those arrested were from Passaic County, mostly Paterson, with one from South Carolina. Seiple said he …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Bernards Township police decline to give further details.
An accident last weekend that injured four Basking Ridge teens remains under investigation, but no further summonses had been issued to the 17-year-old driver as of late Thursday, according to Bernards Township police. Last week, Bernards police Lt. Ted Reese said a 17-year-old Basking Ridge resident was driving a 2005 Honda including himself and five passengers, all 16 and 17-year-olds from Basking Ridge, when he apparently lost control of the car and hit a utility pole on Valley Road in the area of Heritage Court. The crash was reported shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, according to police. Four Basking Ridge teens were taken to the hospital following a one-vehicle crash on Valley Road early Saturday morning that left one of …
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Patrick Lott, former Bernardsville Middle School administrator, admits videotaping boys in showers at Immaculata.
Patrick Lott, assistant principal at Bernardsville Middle School prior to his arrest in December 2011, pleaded guilty Wednesday to videotaping boys in the showers at Immaculata High School where he was a volunteer basketball coach. Lott, appearing in the afternoon before Superior Court Judge Julie Marino, agreed to a six-year prison sentence as part of a plea agreement with the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. He also agreed to forfeit his state educator’s certificates and will be subject to the terms of Megan’s Law, requiring the registration of sex offenders. James Wronko, Lott’s attorney, said his client agreed to the deal because he wanted to spare the victims, the Immaculata school community, and his family the ordeal of going …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Eldon Vosseller crashed glider after take-off Saturday at Van Sant Airport in Tinicum Township.
A Basking Ridge pilot remained in the intensive care unit of a hospital Tuesday after crashing his glider during take-off at the Van Sant Airport in Tinicum Township, Pa., according to NJ.com. Seventy-year-old Eldon Vosseller was flying a New Jersey Civil Air Patrol glider when he crashed on the grassy runway around noon. According to The Morning Call, Vosseller was being cared for at St. Luke's University Hospital-Fountain Hill.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Four taken to hospital, one with head injury, after single-car accident, police said.
Four Basking Ridge teens, ages 16 and 17, were taken to the hospital following a one-vehicle crash on Valley Road at 12:27 a.m. Saturday morning that left one of the passengers with a head injury, said Bernards Township police. Police said the passenger, who was one of five in the vehicle, remained in Morristown Medical Center as of early Monday afternoon, but that no information was available on the teen's condition. Bernards police Lt. Ted Reese said a 17-year-old Basking Ridge resident was driving a 2005 Honda with five passengers, all from Basking Ridge, and lost control of the car while heading north on Valley Road in the area of Heritage Court. Police said the vehicle apparently swerved into the southbound lane before spinning back…
State beekeepers help recover bees reportedly let loose in area.
A tractor trailer carrying bee hives from Florida to Maine lost some of its cargo Monday morning, Bernards Township police said. State beekeepers remained on North Maple Avenue, where the trailer had stopped after pulling off Route 287, in full suits and equipment long after the truck had departed. The tractor trailer had pulled onto the southbound lane of North Maple Avenue near the Verizon bridge after the load of beer hives shifted in the back of the truck at about 7:45 a.m., Bernards Township police said. Some of the boxed bee hives apparently slid off the truck, photos from the scene showed. The accident initially was reported as a disabled truck, but the truck was not disabled, according to police. The beekeepers who responded to …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Carrie Ruffner found 3.4 miles from home Saturday after last being seen Wednesday in Basking Ridge.
A Long Hill woman who had been missing since Wednesday was found safe Saturday afternoon. Carrie Ruffner, 34, was found by Long Hill police Sgt. Aaron Buerstetta at 3:49 p.m. near the intersection of Carlton Road and Whitebridge Road in Millington, only 3.4 miles from her home. Ruffner was transported to Morristown Medical Center for evaluation, acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said in a release. Authorities did not say where Ruffner had been for the past three days or if she suffered from a medical condition. Ruffner disappeared after leaving her parents' house in Basking Ridge around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, and had been expected back at her own home on Meyersville Road in Long Hill. A large search coordinated by the Morris …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
The three school board candidates whose terms are up for re-election decline to say whether they'll run again.
A massive search was underway Thursday for a woman who never made it home from her parents' Basking Ridge home a night earlier. But the good news went out Saturday evening that Carrie Ruffner had been found safe not far from her home. A third of the membership of the Bernards Township Board of Education is up for re-election in 2013, and none of the three board members whose terms expire have committed to running again. However, one longtime board member said he is leaning toward running because he said he feels he ofter provides a differing opinon. A mother who said her 6-year-old daughter was subjected to an unprovoked and "vicious" attack by an aggressive raccoon in her Bernardsville backyard on Monday said she wants to warn the public …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Morris County authorities report that Carrie Ruffner, last seen Wednesday at parents' home in Basking Ridge, is still missing.
The search continued on Friday for Long Hill resident Carrie Ruffner, 34, who was last seen at her parents home in Basking Ridge on Wednesday evening. Ruffner had not been located as of shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, said Morris County First Assistant Prosecutor Tom Zelante. He said he had nothing further to report at that time, but added that further updates would be released as needed. Zelante said the investigation is being handled entirely within Morris County, since that's where Ruffner's home is located. Ruffner, 34, was last seen leaving her parents' house around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said Ruffner was driving to her own home on Meyersville Road in Long Hill Township and was expected to …
Traffic delays reported in Bernardsville, Bernards Township after driver smashed into telephone pole, police said.
A 63-year-old man was resuscitated on the scene of an early-morning Route 202 crash in Bernardsville Friday where police said he was found without a pulse and not-breathing inside his smashed pickup truck. Eugene Henry, of Wallkill, N.Y., was transported to Morristown Medical Center by the Bernardsville First Aid Squad after officers administered CPR and used a cardiac defibrillator to revive him, according to Police Chief Kevin Valentine. Henry was found unconscious in the driver's seat of the heavily damaged 2011 Chevrolet pickup truck after Valentine said he apparently smashed into a telephone pole in front of the Somerset Hills Bank near North Finley just after 6 a.m. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Bernardsville Police …
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Walter O.
2:23 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013
What a scum bag! I hope they beat the crap out of him in jail!!! more ›