Pleasantville

A 25 year-old Pleasantville man who was arrested in August in connection with a shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway is back in jail on drug charges. Wilbert Demosthenes was arrested by Pleasantville Police after they found more than 47 grams of uncut drugs in his vehicle. Demosthenes was out on …

A student at Pleasantville High School was charged with allegedly bringing brownies laced with marijuana to school on Wednesday. Pleasantville Police charged a juvenile female student with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana. The school resource officer was handling the incident and no illnesses were reported from anyone eating …

A Pleasantville police officer is credited with saving the life of a 22 day-old infant who had stopped breathing. Officer Marlon Hernandez responded to an apartment on South Main Street for a report of an unresponsive infant at about 4 a.m. on Oct. 5th. Police report that Hernandez immediately began …

It’s been two months since the Pleasantville School Board approved the hiring of Clarence Alston as their superintendent but the process has yet to be finalized. The Press of Atlantic City reports that state monitor Constance Bauer says no progress has been made to officially finalize the approval and complete …

An Egg Harbor Township man has been indicted on charges connected to a brutal attack that occurred in Pleasantville last year.  Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton announced that 27 year old Nicholas A. Abbati was arrested in connection with the attack on two adults inside their home.  Abbati is charged …

Gunfire continued in the streets of Pleasantville after a Saturday afternoon murder and police are still looking for suspects. Saturday at about 5:10 p.m. Rasheed Hines of Egg Harbor City was fatally shot at the intersection of Linden and Merion avenues in Pleasantville. Later that night police responded to shots …

Pleasantville identified the 29-year-old man who was killed during a weekend shooting in the city. Police say Rasheed Hines of Egg Harbor City was shot multiple times late Saturday afternoon near Merion and Linden avenues in the city. Hines died about 30 minutes later at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in …

One person was killed during a weekend shooting in Pleasantville.  It happened late Saturday afternoon near Merion and Linden avenues in the city.  Police say the man was shot multiple times and died at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City.  The victim’s name has not been released; no suspects …

An unidentified man was shot in the back in Pleasantville on Tuesday evening. Police said the man was shot on the 100 block of West Edgewater Street and does not appear to be connected to the rolling shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway Monday afternoon. No details were released on …

On Monday morning a cellphone store on Main Street in Pleasantville was hit by an armed robber. Police responded to Main Street Communication at 10:36 a.m. Monday for a reported armed robbery. No one was injured and no report on what was stolen from the store.