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: Garden State Parkway Crash Victim Identified As South Jersey Man, 59
UPDATED: The driver who died after a two-car collision on the Garden State Parkway on Tuesday has been identified as Carl Tobie, 59, of Somers Point, New Jersey State Police said. Tobie was driving a. Honda Accord when his vehicle collided with an Infiniti near mile marker 35.3 northbound in Egg Harbor Township, Trooper Charles Marchan said. Tobie’s Honda went off the parkway at mile marker 39.7 in Galloway Township, and it became engulfed in flames, state troopers said. The circumstances of the crash and the vehicle fire are under investigation, state troopers said. The 39-year-old…
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NJ Man In Police Standoff Charged With Fatally Shooting Girlfriend, 37
A 29-year-old South Jersey man involved in an hours-long standoff with multiple police agencies in Atlantic County is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend. Junior English of Camden has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Lateemah Leavy, 37, Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Camden County Police Chief Joseph Wysocki said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Police from Pleasantville, Absecon, and Galloway Township were held at bay by English beginning about 1 p.m. on Sunday, their statement said, English had called 911 from his silver Nissan while parked in At…
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GoFundMe For Defiant NJ Gym Owner Rakes In $43K As He Addresses Fatal DWI Crash
A co-owner of the controversial South Jersey gym that defied the state's coronavirus shutdown order has been dragged into the media spotlight for major criminal problems more than a decade ago. Ian A. Smith, 33, of Atilis Gym in Camden County, was a Stockton University student in 2007 when he drank a dozen beers and ran a stop sign the next morning, killing Kevin Ade, 19, of Galloway Township, according to 6ABC News and other news accounts. ** UPDATE: New Jersey's health commissioner closed Smith's gym Thursday morning. ** Smith pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and …
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Atlantic Law Enforcement Recognizes County's 1st Woman Police Chief From Galloway
Galloway Township Police Chief Donna Higbee is being recognized, as part of Women's History Month, as the first woman police chief in Atlantic County. “Chief Higbee is as fine a chief that any law enforcement agency could want to lead them," Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner said in a statement. Higbee, born and raised in Galloway Township, was sworn in as the chief of its police department in July 2015. Chief Higbee is the third generation of her family who settled a section of the township known as Higbeetown off Route 9 near Smithville. Her father, John Higbee…
