Thursday, October 11, 2012
Donna Zoldan of Highland Park was killed yesterday on the Amtrak tracks in Edison, Amtrak officials said.
The woman who stepped out in front of an Amtrak train yesterday near Metropark has been identified. Donna Zoldan, 49, of Highland Park was killed October 10 when she was struck by the speeding train at approximately 12:12 p.m. on the tracks near Talmadge Road and Route 27 in Edison, according to Amtrak officials. The area is about 4-1/2 miles south of the Metropark station in the Iselin section of Woodbridge. The Amtrak train which struck Zoltan was travelling south from New York to Washington, DC, said Steve Kulm, Amtrak spokesman. There were no injuries to the 220 passengers on board the train or to the crew, Kulm said. "We transferred the passengers to another train," he added. The fatality did not disrupt train traffic as much as it …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Edison Police are looking to question Trenton resident Bernard McIntyre in Tuesday's carjacking that started in Woodbridge and ended in Trenton.
The Edison Police Department has released the name and picture of a person of interest in the carjacking of a Woodbridge cab on Tuesday, where the driver was forced at gunpoint to drive to Trenton. Police are looking for Bernard McIntyre, 52, a Trenton resident who has been named as a suspect in the carjacking. A warrant has been issued for McIntyre on charges of carjacking and criminal restraint, said Edison Sgt. Robert J. Dudash, Jr. in a statement. The 71-year-old cab driver, who works for Scooters Taxi Service, picked up a fare at Metropark in the Iselin section of the township approximately 1 pm on October 2. The passenger wanted to be driven to New Brunswick, but once the cab driver arrived, the fare allegedly pulled a gun and …
A driver with Scooters Taxi thought he was taking a $35 fare to New Brunswick. He wound up at gunpoint in Trenton - minus the cab and his cash.
A Woodbridge cab driver got the shock of his life Tuesday when a fare he picked up at Metropark turned into a gun-toting carjacker by the time he reached New Brunswick. The cab driver, who works for Scooters Taxi Service, picked up a man at the Iselin train station around 1 pm who wanted to be driven to New Brunswick, normally a $35 fare. When the cab driver reached New Brunswick, the fare pulled out a gun and told him to start driving to Trenton, said Valerie Finaldi of Scooters. "When they got to New Brunswick, that's when it happened," Finaldi said. "The fare said, 'you'll go where I tell you to go,' and he pulled out a gun." Needless to say, the cab driver had an unnerving 25-mile ride to Trenton down Route 1. When the driver arrived …
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Edison police and FBI arrested Sonny R. Augusto, 22, of Edison in a series of armed robberies that started in Iselin.
An Edison man was arrested in a whirlwind series of robberies over several towns, that apparently started with a heist at an Iselin card store in late August. Sonny R. Augusto, 22, was picked up by Edison police at his home in that township and charged with a string of robberies spanning Woodbridge, Edison, and Hillside he allegedly committed in a little more than a week. Edison police said that the FBI had assisted them in the Augusto case, according to a report on mycentraljersey. The crime spree began in the Iselin section of Woodbridge on August 23, when a single gun-wielding robber held up the Hilltop Card and Gift store on Oak Tree Road. Woodbridge police said that the suspect also tried to rob a customer in the store, but failed. …
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
It's not for the reason you think.
The sudden appearance of six NJ State Police vehicles were at Woodbridge High School this afternoon set tongues wagging Thursday. The reason, though, had nothing to do with recent allegations of cheating on standardized tests for which the NJ Dept. of Education is investigating the high school. State police were at Woodbridge High to give a training seminar for Woodbridge police on how to handle a school shooter situation. Signs on the doors to the administrative end of the building said that the third floor was closed for the day, in preparation for the training. That floor was the 'staging area' for the training. "It was a training exercise, for how to handle an 'active shooter' situation," said NJ State Police spokesman Sgt. Brian …
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1:01 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012
Why? Because the country is rail-locked and pedestrian crossings a.k.a. crossings aren't there. Why is Steve Kuln who was a worthless railroad bought hand puppet in the Federal Railroad-bought Association doing as a talkin' head for Amtrak? Would it be because AMTRAK has the worse/best kill rate per mile traveled in the country for ANY business? more ›