It’s ten years in a state prison for a 20 year old Pleasantville man who participated in the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver two years ago. Kameron Watts was handed the prison term in an Atlantic County court on Friday. Watts had pleaded guilty to a charge of a first degree armed robbery…
A 22 year old Pleasantville man has been charged in connection with the shooting death of a teenager last week. Police say Hassan Montague-Reed shot and killed a 19 year old man following a dispute in the basement of a city home. Mark Smith was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting. Reed’s bail stands at…
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office reports that a 19 year-old Pleasantville man was shot and killed Thursday night. Mark Smith was found lying on the ground near the intersection of Abbey and Vola Lanes with a gunshot wound to the head. He was later pronounced dead at the AtlantiCare Medical Center, City Campus. The Atlantic…
The hiring of a new Pleasantville superintendent of schools will be decided in the courts. Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez will decide if the hiring of Clarence Alston as school superintendent by the Pleasantville Board of Education was legitimate, since only four of the nine member board voted to approve. Three of the…
Nia Ali is headed to Rio. The 2006 graduate of Pleasantville High School earned a spot on the United States Olympic Team. She finished third in the 100 meter hurdle finals on Friday in Eugene, Oregon. Ali finished a little more than two tenths of a second off the pace.
Another South Jersey athlete moved one step closer to making the U.S. Olympic Team on Thursday. 2006 Pleasantville graduate Nia Ali advanced to the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles at the Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon. In March the 27 year-old Ali won the 60 hurdles at the world indoor track and…
A woman was killed during an early morning traffic accident in Pleasantville on Sunday. Police say the woman was heading westbound on Delilah Road when her vehicle left the roadway and struck a utility pole. No other vehicles were involved in the accident, the identity of the victim has not been released.
The fourth suspect in a November kidnapping and murder in Pleasantville has been captured by Atlantic City police after a car chase Sunday night. Marshall Coley, 27, was recognized by a tipster as a passenger in a car driven by 26 year-old Latoya Golden, and nabbed by police after a 15 minute car chase that…
A 22 year-old Pleasantville man out of jail just four days was captured after he led police on a 20-minute chase Monday morning. Brandon Figaro was arrested after taking a truck from the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, and tried to elude police until the truck came to a stop at Delilah Road and Main Street…
The Pleasantville Board of Education named Assistant Superintendent Garnell Bailey as acting superintendent at their meeting Monday night by a 4-0 vote. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the appointment is on a month-to-month basis until the dispute over the appointment of Clarence Alston is resolved. The vote will be reviewed by the Atlantic County…