39 year old Shawn P. Duffy of Egg Harbor Township has been charged with second-degree leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash and second-degree vehicular homicide. On February 6, Duffy was involved in a motor vehicle crash on Steelmanville Road in Egg Harbor Township. Duffy’s vehicle allegedly struck a bicyclist and fled the … Read more
71 year old Jiolio Cincotti of Mays Landing has been charged with numerous counts of theft by deception for allegedly deceiving over 24 victims between October 2020 and October 2023. Cincotti represented himself as the owner of Atlantic Memorials in Mays Landing and engaging in the business of making and selling headstones. In each instance, … Read more
An Atlantic City man pleaded guilty Monday to drug and weapons offenses after police searched his home last year and found heroin, fentanyl and the materials needed to sell them on the street, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said. According to the Press of Atlantic City Nahjajuan Ellis, 23, pleaded guilty to maintaining a drug … Read more
In North Wildwood, an emergency beach project is set to add 1.3 million cubic yards of sand to badly eroded city beaches at a cost of $10 million.Mayor Pat Rosenello and Gov. Phil Murphy announced plans for the beach fill in April, with the intent of rebuilding the beaches before the start of summer, with … Read more
The Atlantic City school board has advertised a special meeting for 6 p.m. Thursday to discuss “personnel matters.”“Action will be taken,” according to the legal ad in the Tuesday edition of The Press of Atlantic City.Board President Shay Steele confirmed the meeting will be held but declined further comment.A $2 million tort claim filed last … Read more
The Atlantic City Police Department arrested two men and a woman following an investigation into gunshots being heard. On May 5 at 10:20 PM, patrol officers responded to the Club Wyndham Skyline Tower in the beach block of North Carolina Avenue for a report of gunshots being fired from a balcony. An investigation into this … Read more
A bill that would lower the bar for counties to set non-salary compensation for top officials was approved by a Senate panel this week. According to the Press of Atlantic City, the bill, which the Senate Urban and Community Affairs Committee approved in a 3-0 vote with abstentions from both the panel’s Republicans, would remove … Read more
23 year old Nahjajuan Ellis of Atlantic City pleaded guilty this week to drug and handgun offenses arising from the execution of a residential search warrant in January 2023. On January 26, 2023, the Vice Unit of the Atlantic City Police Department executed a search warrant on an apartment in Atlantic City. Prior to executing … Read more
42 year old Tawanne Williams of Philadelphia, and 33 year old Jessica Bryant of Atlantic City, NJ pleaded guilty in relation to a shooting which occurred in the summer of 2022 in Atlantic City. On August 31, 2022, the Atlantic City Police Department responded near the Carolina Villages apartment complex where they found a man … Read more
Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson was inducted into the inaugural New Jersey Association of Counties County Executive Hall of Fame at a conference over the weekend. Levinson, 78, who was elected in 2023 to his seventh four-year term as county executive, was formerly a freeholder (now called county commissioner) and a public school history teacher.