Egg Harbor Township

A 55 year old Egg Harbor Township man has pleaded guilty to a charge of Witness Tampering.  John Kachbalian will spend one year in jail on his charge.  He was arrested at his home last August.

A car crashed into the front of the Early Years day care center in Egg Harbor Township Saturday evening at the English Creek Shopping Center.  The day care center was closed at the time of the accident.  No word yet on what caused the crash.

30 year old Nicholas Abbati has been convicted on charges that he killed Jahlil Hunter and attempted to kill another woman.  Police say the murder took place back in 2015 in Pleasantville.  Hunter died less than two weeks after he was attacked.  Abbati will be sentenced for his crime on …

A somber day in Egg Harbor Township Tuesday as an adult and child were both killed in a motor vehicle crash on English Creek Avenue.  Police say the accident occurred shortly after 12 Noon and an SUV became engulfed in flames following a head on accident.  The cause of the …

A local diving coach who was jailed on child pornography charges was released from jail.  The Press of Atlantic City reports that Mark Balesteri Jr. of Egg Harbor Township was released on Monday, with special conditions.  He has a pre-indictment conference scheduled for the middle of April.

Congressman Jeff Van Drew this week toured the Coast Guard Air Station in Egg Harbor Township.  Van Drew says the tour helped him understand how vital the Coast Guard is to national security efforts.  Employees recently went without pay for a month during the government shutdown.

A serious automobile accident in Egg Harbor Township Saturday afternoon resulted in the driver and passenger both being airlifted to an area hospital.  Police say a 28 year old man from Somers Point was driving the vehicle on Ocean Heights Avenue when it left the roadway and hit a tree. …

A 37 year old Egg Harbor Township man will face the music on Friday for beating a woman over the head with a hammer and killing her in November, 2017.  Lashaun Smith will be sentenced for the crime in Superior Court.  Smith used a hammer to kill his 28 year …

A bank robber is on the loose in Egg Harbor Township.  Egg Harbor City Police say a man walked into a branch of Wells Fargo Bank in the city and held it up shortly before 12 Noon Wednesday.  The man handed a teller an envelope and headed out on foot …

A local diving coach has been charged with using Snapchat to share child abuse images.  29 year old Mark Balesteri Jr. of Egg Harbor Township is accused of various exploitation offenses.  Balesteri has been suspended from the school district pending the outcome of the investigation.