The complaint claimed Wilfredo Benitez, a part time judge in the Municipal Courts of East Orange and Belleville Township, attempted to use his power and prestige for his own private interest.
An alleged Memorial Day weekend late-night clash on the Seaside Heights boardwalk is scuttled quickly by borough police, who managed to retrieve some belongings that tied some of the combatants to North Jersey.
A Toms River woman convicted of using her job as a loan officer in Forked River as the gateway for a 15-million-dollar mortgage scam draws a three-and-a-half-year prison term.
Robert Mucha - who spent part of his career as a band and bugle corps instructor in Lakewood - can expect to log 10 years in prison for downloading child pornography and for luring a teenage boy to Pennsylvania for sex.