Bridgeton News

Jeremy B. Hitchner, 29, of Broad Street, Bridgeton, was arrested Oct. 28 and charged with allegedly obstructing the administration of law and possession of marijuana, police said.

Mayor James Begley's plan to close an end of two city alleys met with a little more resistance Wednesday night.

A city man suffered minor injuries after stepping into the path of a car driving on Irving Avenue Sunday evening, authorities said.

Two multi-family homes in the city acted as fronts for brothels utilizing women brought into the area from New York, according to prosecutors.

State police based at Bridgeton barracks recently released the following information based on their activities from Oct.

Police charged three teens with gang-related graffiti discovered at three locations in the city park this afternoon.

Bridgeton police charged a Pittsgrove Township man with driving while intoxicated after he allegedly fled a car crash Wednesday evening.

Four cars were burglarized while parked on a Manheim Avenue auto shop's property sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday, Bridgeton police said.

BRIDGETON _ Testimony resumed this morning in the murder trial of Millville resident John Pompper, accused of strangling his half-brother 30 years ago this month.

A relative newcomer and an experienced veteran were returned to represent the 3rd District in the state Assembly on Tuesday.

Bridgeton police charged a 20-year-old man with cocaine possession and distribution after he fled from a traffic stop late Monday.

Bridgeton police made several domestic-violence arrests over the weekend. BRIDGETON * Chris L. Hadden, 26, of Nichols Street, was arrested Monday morning on three failure to appear warrants and lodged in Cumberland County Jail on $2,583 bail.

Four city men were charged with illegal handgun possession early Saturday after gunfire was reported at a Halloween party on Fairview Avenue late Friday.

Long-time city resident Kenny Williams has spent lots of time around Sunset Lake.

Nothing was reported as stolen from the 600-block home. * An Amity Heights resident reported Tuesday night that her car - a black 1995 Nissan Maxima - was stolen from in front of the IGA after she left it running, unattended, in front of the Hancock Center grocery store.

BRIDGETON ~ Gregory J. King, 46, of South Avenue, was arrested late Thursday morning on a failure to appear warrant and lodged in the county jail.

Bridgeton Blotter - Possession of handgun, possession of hollow-point bullet and shoplifting; defiant trespass, criminal mischief, possession of burglary tools, possession of drug paraphernalia Wednesday, October 28, 2009 BRIDGETON * Kiki Priester, 24, of North Pearl Street, was arrested early Saturday on the charges of unlawful possession of a ...

A Bridgeton man was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.

Ronnie Lee Deckert, 23, of the 100 block of South 2nd Street, Millville, was charged Tuesday.

Chisano Mutts said he hung on for his life as his school bus dragged him for nearly a block.