Accused killer of Asbury Park 10 year old is on his way back to New Jersey

Karon Council, photo via Broward County Sheriff’s Office

Karon Council, 18 of Neptune Township, the accused killer of 10 year old Yovanni Banos-Merino, is in the custody of the U.S. Marshall’s Service and is being transported back to New Jersey from, Charles Webster, spokesperson of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.

Council waved his extradition rights in Broward County Florida Court yesterday.  Last night he was still listed as an inmate of the Broward County Jail. This morning he was no longer listed as an inmate in Florida. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marlboro Launches School Security Reporting Citizens Initiative

Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik

Marlboro Mayor Jonathan Hornik and Police Chief Bruce Hall yesterday launched a campaign, ‘See Something. Say Something. ® We will Do Something’ to encourage citizens to report unusual and suspicious behavior.  They hope that citizen reporting will be an integral part of school security in the Township.

“We are asking residents to be an active partner in the safety of our schools. If you see something on Social Media, hear something, see something out of place, or someone’s behavior doesn’t seem quite right, make that call,” Hornik said in his announcement. “The Citizen Reporting Initiative encourages citizens to be additional eyes and ears in our multi-pronged approach to school security. We ask that you make the report, even anonymously, to the authorities. We would rather that the event be deemed not-credible than to never receive the report.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Art G and Tommy G on the radio this afternoon

MMM publisher Art Gallagher will be Tommy G’s guest this afternoon at 4:06 PM on the best afternoon drive time radio show in New Jersey.

Tommy and Art will be discussing the tragedy in Parkland, Florida—and the apparent police failure there.  We’ll discuss weather or not schools in NJ should have armed police officers and/or teachers.

We also address the tragic shooting in Asbury Park last week that resulting in the death of 10 year old Yovanni Banos-Merino.

Should prisoner’s be able to vote in New Jersey?  Is that a social justice issue? You’ll love Art’s answer to that question.

If all goes as planned, we’ll finish the segment by grading Governor Phil Murphy’s first month in office.

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Extradition Hearing For Accused Killer of Asbury Park 10 Year Old Set For Tuesday

Karon Council, photo via Broward County Sheriff’s Office

The extradition hearing for Karon Council, the 18 year old Neptune Township man accused of murdering 10 year old Yovanni Banos-Merino is scheduled for 1pm on Tuesday February 27 before Judge Kim Thersea Mollica in the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to the Court’s website.

Council has been held at the Broward County Jail since his arrest on Sunday in Pompano Beach.

His alleged accomplice, 16 year old Jahdel Birch, is in the custody of the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center.  Birch in due in Court in Freehold on Tuesday.

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Accused Killer, Karon Council, Captured in Florida

Karon Council is the suspected shooter of Yovanni Banos-Merino, 10, of Asbury Park

The suspected shooter of 10 year old Yovanni Banos-Merino has been captured in Florida, according to law enforcement sources.

Karon Council, 18, of Neptune Township was apprehended in Pompano Beach, Florida this evening after eluding arrest since the murder of Merino and wounding his mother, Lilia Merino, 38, on Wednesday night, February 21.

The Neptune Township 18 year old was charged with Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Aggravated Assault, Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, and Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose on Friday, February 23.  His alleged accomplice, Jahdel Birch, 16 of Neptune Township, was arrested at Neptune High School on Thursday the 22.  Read the rest of this entry »

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16 Year Old Neptune Boy Charged in Asbury Park Shooting

A 16 year old boy from Neptune Township was arrested at Neptune High School this afternoon and charged in the shooting death of a 10 year old Asbury Park boy and the wounding of the boy’s 39 year old mother, according to an announcement by Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

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10 year old boy killed in Asbury Park shooting

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A ten year old boy was shot and killed at about 11PM last night on the 400 block of Ridge Ave in Asbury Park, according to multiple news reports.  A 39 year old women, the boys mother according to a source, was wounded in the shooting.

MMM has learned that the child was a student at Bradley Elementary School.

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Coast Guard warns boaters and kayakers…the water is COLD!

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Atlantic City detachment issued a cold water warning to mid-Atlantic boaters and kayakers this afternoon:

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Murphy nominates Fulton to head MVC

Brenda “Sue” Fulton was nominated to be Governor Phil Murphy’s MVC Chief

Governor Phil Murphy today announced his nomination of B. Sue Fulton of Asbury Park to be the Chair and Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.

MMM reported that Fulton was being vetted for the job on February 8, two days after her 2016 Democrat running mate for Monmouth County Freeholder, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, announced that he had turned down the job because “it was not a good fit.”

“I’m honored — and humbled — to be asked to lead the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and to be part of Governor Murphy’s administration,” Fulton said in a statement released by the governor’s office, “We will make it our aim every day to better serve the people of New Jersey. There is tremendous opportunity to bring about a positive change in New Jersey and I am excited to be a part of that change.”

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The Right to Treatment Protects All of Us

Twenty years after the closing of Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, thoughts on Parkland, Florida.

By Stuart J. Moskovitz

In 1966, Chief Judge Bazelon of the D.C. Appellate Court reviewed a lower court decision where the judge had said, “My jurisdiction is limited to determining whether [the patient] has recovered his sanity. I don’t think I have a right to consider whether he is getting enough treatment.”

Chief Judge Bazelon stated, “Absent treatment, the hospital is transformed into a penitentiary where one could be held indefinitely for no convicted offense.”

He then went on to note that in 1964 Congress had passed the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act which provides, in part, “A person hospitalized in a public hospital for a mental illness shall, during his hospitalization, be entitled to medical and psychiatric care and treatment.”

He defined that requisite care by saying, “According to leading experts ‘psychiatric care and treatment’ includes not only the contacts with psychiatrists but also activities and contacts with the hospital staff designed to cure or improve the patient.”

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