Marlboro Cop Accused Of Beating Colts Neck Women, Breaking Her Face

Officer Donna Gonzalez and K-9 Saber

A Marlboro Police Officer is accused of punching a Colts Neck woman in the face, breaking her orbital and then falsely arresting and imprisoning the woman, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Trenton last week.

Officers Donna Gonzalez and Joseph Meglio forced themselves into the Colts Neck home of Marlene Mazur on January 24, 2016 in response to a dispatch call reporting an argument between a man and a women, according the the suit filed by Freehold attorney Thomas Mallon on behalf of Mazur.  The complaint says that Mazur’s husband had gotten her car stuck in the snow and that by the time the Marlboro officers arrived at the Boundary Road home, the husband and their son had dug out the car and parked it in the garage.

Gonzalez and Meglio entered the home and demanded to speak to the husband. Gonzalez pushed Mazur against a wall and gestured as if she was going to punch her while Meglio followed the son upstairs and entered a room where the son’s children were staying.

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Planning for NWS Earle

photo via globalsecurity.org

Monmouth County has received a $206,000 federal grant from the Department of Defense to prepare a Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) for Naval Weapons Station Earle.

A cooperative land use planning effort between affected local government entities and the military installation, the project looks to create compatible development measures to keep the base operational, while also looking out for the surrounding public’s health, safety, and welfare. When land use decisions impair the effectiveness of a military base, the utility of the installation and its mission can be compromised.  Mission constraints can lead to base closure. Monmouth County will contribute $32,500 in staff time and materials to the study.

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Colts Neck police chief reportedly suspended 5 days over conference trip

COLTS NECK – The chief of police in Colts Neck has been suspended five days after the township’s committee determined he should have used vacation time to attend an out-of-state conference, according to a report by APP.com. Chief Kevin Sauter, who earns $116,000 annually, will begin serving the unpaid suspension on Monday following the township committee’s… Read the rest of this entry »

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Fired Monmouth Regional Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges

Nicholas J. DePue, photo via Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office

Nicholas DePue, the Monmouth Regional High School teacher who was fired last June after he was arrested and charged with second degree Sexual Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Minor, pleaded guilty today to two counts of second degree Endangering the Welfare of Minor, before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Josepeh W. Oxley in Freehold, according a report by ace Asbury Park Press reporter Kathleen Hopkins.

DePue admitted sending inappropriate text messages and/or having sexual physical contact with two female Monmouth Regional students, ages 16 and 17.

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Year in review: November 2015

Jonelle Melton

Three Asbury Park Men were charged with the 2009 murder of Jonelle Melton, a 33 year old Red Bank Middle School teacher.

Democrats Eric Houghtaling and Joann Downey defeated Republican Assemblywomen Mary Pat Angelini and Caroline Casagrande in the 11th Legislative District.  A Democratic SuperPac funded largely by the NJEA spent $1.5 million in the race, including television commercials implying that Angelini is inappropriately profiting from the drug abuse prevention non-profit that she leads.

For all the special interest money spent on behalf of the Democrats, Angelini lost to Downey by only 253 votes and the top vote getter, Houghtaling had only 713 votes more than the low vote getter, Casagrande.  Low voter turnout in Republican strongholds Freehold Township and Colts Neck was the difference in the election.

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Colts Neck man charged with killing retired FDNY firefighter

BARNEGAT LIGHT — A Colts Neck man was charged Wednesday with killing a retired FDNY firefighter who was found dead at his home on Long Beach Island on Monday. Conrad Sipa, 52, was charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and Long Beach Township Police… Read the rest of this entry »

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Teen gets 15 years for trying to kill Colts Neck woman

FREEHOLD – A Colts Neck teen will have up to 15 years behind bars to think about the night he repeatedly stabbed and slashed a woman with a 10-inch knife, before carjacking her and then leaving her for dead. Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Ronald Reisner sentenced Brennan Doyle, 18, of Colts Neck, to a pair… Read the rest of this entry »

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Family ‘dumbfounded and numb’ after Tinton Falls woman killed by falling tree

Stacey Weathers. photo via facebook

TINTON FALLS — Stacey Weathers’ life was all about giving back. The 46-year-old Tinton Falls woman, who was killed Saturday when a tree fell on her car on Route 34 in Colts Neck, was the executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, where she helped raise $7 million to support… Read the rest of this entry »

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Tinton Falls woman killed by falling tree Saturday

Colts Neck Township police have identified the motorist killed when a tree fell on her car during Saturday’s rains and high winds. Police said Stacey Weathers, 46, of Tinton Falls was the lone occupant of the vehicle when a tree fell on it along Route 34 at 4:25 p.m. She was driving a Mustang convertible, police… Read the rest of this entry »

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Update on deadly car crash on Route 18, Colts Neck

Two people are dead and a third is hospitalized as a result of a commercial line striping truck overturning into the median of Route 18 in Colts Neck this morning, according to Charles Webster, spokesperson for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.

The incident occurred north the northbound interchange of Route 34 and the south of the County Road 537 interchange.

The three victims were ejected from the vehicle they were traveling in.  Two were pronounced dead at the scene at 8:30 a.m. and 8:35 a.m. The third victim, a male, was transported to an area hospital.  His condition is unknown.

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