Monday, March 18, 2013
Joseph D. Thorton, of Winslow, is accused of leaving the scene of a deadly pedestrian accident that killed Ezekiel Tomboyeke.
A Winslow man who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian Saturday night was arrested early Sunday morning and charged in the death. Joseph D. Thorton, 54, of the first block of Mary Court in Winslow, is charged with death by automobile and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Police say Thorton hit Ezekiel Tomboyeke, 59, of Chesilhurst, at 11:30 p.m. March 16 on Pump Branch Road in Winslow. Tomboyeke was walking home when Thorton’s 1992 Pontiac Grand Am reportedly hit him; Thorton is accused of fleeing. A tip led police to Thorton’s home early March 17, where the Pontiac was reportedly discovered and showed visible signs of damage, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said. Thorton was arrested, charged and jailed on $185,000 bail at …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Four of five Triton educators charged in the case have now been sentenced in the case surrounding inappropriate teacher-student sexual relationships.
Jeffrey Logandro and Daniel Michielli, two former teachers who pleaded guilty to charges surrounding improper relations with students at Triton Regional High School, were sentenced Friday to 30 days of electronically monitored home detention and three years probation. Logandro and Michielli walked out of the courtroom 15 minutes after the proceedings, uncuffed, accompanied by a sheriff's deputy. They walked down a long hallway to the elevator and refused to comment when asked questions about how they felt and why they got involved sexually with students. The entirety of Gloucester Township's coverage of this issue is available at our special page: Triton Teacher-Student Sex Scandal.
'...This incident is going to be the one thing you're remembered for,' a judge tells Jeffrey Logandro and Daniel Michielli, both of Blackwood, as they're sentenced in a Camden courtroom Friday.
Jeffrey Logandro and Daniel Michielli, two former teachers who pleaded guilty to charges surrounding improper relations with students at Triton Regional High School, were sentenced Friday to 30 days of electronically monitored home detention and three years probation. Both defendants sat silently in court Friday during and after their sentencing for third-degree conspiracy to commit official misconduct. Michelli, 27, of of Blackwood, sat on the left side of a Camden courtroom, alone, staring at the floor, as about a dozen supporters and families of the victims, two teenage girls, sat on the right side. He wore a light tan suit and tan striped tie. Logandro, sat silently next to his attorney, Len Biddison, staring at a table as Biddison …
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Nicholas Martinelli immediately resigned his teaching position at Triton after the guilty plea.
Triton Regional High School teacher Nick Martinelli admitted in court Thursday to hindering an investigation into his alleged improper relationship with a student, and immediately resigned his position. Martinelli, 28, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to fourth-degree hindering apprehension. As part of the plea, he’ll be sentenced to probation and will forfeit his teaching certificate in New Jersey. Martinelli, who was ordered not to have contact with the victim, will learn the exact terms of his sentence April 12. In a statement of probable cause to charge Martinelli, the 18-year-old student told police she and the teacher had sex and had kissed and touched each other sexually. Martinelli was a physical education teacher at Triton and …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The Camden County Prosecutor's Office wants to know if you recognize the individual in these photos. It could be worth $1,000 if you do.
The Camden County Prosecutor's office released surveillance photos Sunday afternoon of a person of interest in a bomb hoax that occurred in the Lawnside municipal building March 7. The individual seems to be a white man between 5 feet, 10 inches and 6 feet tall, and the images were taken between 7 and 7:15 a.m. March 7. Around 8 a.m. on that day, a court clerk discovered a package in the elevator of the building. The device—a pair of road flares taped to two pipes—was designed to look like an explosive device. It was found in a bag addressed to Lawnside Mayor Mary Ann Wardlow written on it. According to a press release from the prosecutor's office, the building was cleared and "the device was rendered safe by a disruption round fired from …
Monday, March 4, 2013
Timothy Polijczuk was charged Monday with leaving the scene of an accident that killed Joyce Putmon, a 67-year-old Gloucester Township resident.
Haddon Township police arrested a 50-year-old Mount Ephraim man Monday and charged him in the fatal hit-and-run Sunday that claimed the life of a Gloucester Township woman. Timothy Polijczuk, 50, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with a fatality, causing death while driving on a suspended license and operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license, according to a statement from the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. He was also issued numerous motor vehicle violations and was ordered held at the Camden County Jail on $192,500 bail. Police charged Polijczuk with driving a blue Chevrolet truck with a refrigeration box mounted to bed when he struck Joyce Putmon, 67, of the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, as she …
Sunday, March 3, 2013
The 15-year-old boy was shot Friday night in woods off Mount Ephraim Avenue in Woodlynne.
The Camden County Prosecutor's Office seeks information from the public about a shooting that left a 15-year-old boy in critical condition. The teen was shot Friday night in woods off Mount Ephraim Avenue in Woodlynne. He is in critical and unstable condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, according to the prosecutor's office. "Why this person was shot and who is responsible is being investigated right now," said Jason Laughlin, spokesman for the prosecutor. The prosecutor's office urges anyone with information about the incident to call Prosecutor's Office Investigator Vince McCalla at 856-225-8400 or email the office at ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org. The shooting happened behind Sovereign Bank in Woodlynne, which, …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Notices of intent to sue were filed on behalf of all three Triton High School graduates.
Attorneys representing the three victims in the Triton Regional High School teacher-student sex case have filed notices of potential lawsuits. The notices of tort claim were filed in early November, roughly a month after charges were brought against five Triton educators—three male teachers accused of inappropriate relationships with female students and two administrators charged with covering up those relationships. One victim is represented by Philadelphia firm Cozen O'Connor and the other two victims by Mount Laurel-based firm McLaughlin & Lauricella. Former Triton teachers Jeffrey P. Logandro and Daniel R. Michielli have already pleaded guilty to inappropriate relationships with two potential plaintiffs, while the criminal case against…
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Black Horse Pike Regional School District reports former principal Catherine DePaul was paid more than $50,000 during her suspension.
Three former Triton Regional High School educators received paychecks totaling nearly $100,000 while they were suspended as a result of a teacher-student sex case that rocked the school last fall. Former principal Catherine DePaul and former teachers Jeffrey P. Logandro and Daniel R. Michielli stopped receiving paychecks when they forfeited their positions at the Runnemede school with guilty pleas entered earlier this month. None can ever hold public office in New Jersey again under the plea deals. According to figures provided to Patch by Black Horse Pike Regional School District (BHPRSD) this week as part of a broader Open Public Records Act filing, the district paid DePaul $50,600.56, Logandro $23,753.66 and Michielli $21,427.32 over …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Anyone with information on the killers of Arthur Banks, 41, and Rhonda Scott, 38, both of Camden City, could collect $1,000 apiece.
The following press release was issued by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk and Camden Police Chief Scott Thomson announced reward money was being made available in two separate 2013 homicides in Camden. $2,000 in reward money has been made available, $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the death of Arthur Banks, and $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the death of Rhonda Scott. Arthur Banks, 41, of Camden, was shot multiple times in front of a home on the 100 block of 24th Street in Camden about 7:45 p.m. on February 4. Anyone with information is urged to contact Camden County Prosecutor…
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