A 34 year-old Pennsylvania man will appear in Superior Court on Friday to face charges he murdered another Pennsylvania resident at a Vineland hotel. Larry John Pulcine Jr. is accused of shooting 33 year-old Ivan Strayer III multiple times earlier this week. Strayer’s body was found early Tuesday morning at the Wyndham by Wingate hotel…
A Vineland man was busted for running a pot farm. Police there say they acted on a tip and found plants growing higher than the privacy fence that went around the property. Radames Gonzalez Ruiz was arrested by police. Authorities say they found packaging materials, a large digital scale, and loose marijuana around the property.…
A branch of Cape Bank in Cumberland County was robbed on Tuesday. Details remain sketchy, but a robbery was reported at the Cape Bank branch on Route 77 in Upper Deerfield on Tuesday. State Police responded; no word yet on how much money was taken or if the bandit got away.
A 17 year-old Bridgeton youth was arrested on Sunday and charged in the fatal shooting of Davonte Lee last week. The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s office announced that The U.S. Marshalls Service in Millville apprehended the teenager, who was charged with homicide and related offenses. Lee, 21, was shot on Friday evening as he sat in…
In spite of recent heavy rainfalls, the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection has issued a drought watch for six New Jersey counties, including Salem and Ocean Counties. The DEP says that rainfall amounts in Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland Counties is near or above normal, but shallow ground water is considered severely dry and stream…
More than 2,000 police officers and volunteers went door-to-door in Millville on Thursday in support of the first statewide Knock Out Opiate Abuse Day. The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey organized the prevention and outreach program, to educate local residents on the dangers of prescription opioids and how they can lead to heroin abuse.…
After an investigation of several months, 21 people were arrested for their alleged roles in a drug and trafficking organization in Cumberland County. Officers from local, state and national agencies worked together in “Operation That’s All Folks” that netted ten guns, various drugs including heroin and cocaine, and over $12,000 in cash. The arrests were…
Attorneys for South Jersey Ice and Cold Storage will appear today before the Cumberland County Construction Board of Appeals to argue against the demolition of their facility in Vineland. This summer local officials gave the company 30 days to either vacate or tear down their building on East Pearl Street, following an inspection that revealed…
The Environmental Protection Agency discovered arsenic in grounds near the Vineland Chemical Co. Superfund site and will require an additional $15 million to cleanup the problem. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the EPA has spent nearly $220 million since 1992 to remove arsenic from the soil and groundwater from the chemical company’s site…
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch and a Coastal Flood Advisory for Cape May, Cumberland and Atlantic Counties for Friday. The Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 4 p.m. today and the Coastal Flood Advisory runs from 7 a.m. until noon. The forecast calls for rain through the weekend that…