The United States government is seeking to seize numerous items that belonged to the famous mathematician and computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing, including his 1938 doctorate diploma from Princeton University. Jason Dunn, the U.S. attorney for Colorado, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on Jan. 17 seeking…
A Princeton couple accused of selling investments in gas and oil projects to members of their social circle in Princeton as part of a Ponzi scheme has been arrested for contempt of court in a separate case in New York. Ford Graham, 56, a 1986 alumnus of Princeton University, and his wife, Katherine Graham, 55,…
Another lawsuit has been filed to prevent Rider University from selling the Westminster Choir College campus in downtown Princeton. More than 70 students at the choir college have signed on to the lawsuit filed in Mercer County Superior Court on Tuesday that seeks to block the sale of the Westminster campus and keep the choir…
A second employee who worked for the municipality of Princeton has been charged by the Mercer County Prosecutor in connection with the illegal dumping investigation in Princeton. Frank Casole, 60, was charged this week with being an accomplice to bribery in the second degree for allegedly being complicit in the illegal dumping scandal by aiding…
A Mercer County grand jury returned a three-count indictment this week charging a Ewing Township police officer and his wife in the December 2018 death of their three-month-old daughter, Hailey. Daniel Bannister, 31, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder. Catherine Bannister, 29, was indicted on one count of second-degree reckless manslaughter. The husband…
Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson issued a temporary restraining order on Monday evening to stop the governing body of Princeton from rescinding a multi-million-dollar contract with a sewer repair contractor. The Princeton Council was slated to rescind a $2.75 million contract for sewer rehabilitation work on Spruce Street and Linden Lane with Integrated…
Integrated Construction and Utilities of New Jersey, an Edison-based company that does sewer repair, demolition, and asbestos abatement work, has filed a lawsuit against the town of Princeton for planning to cancel a multi-million dollar contract because of allegations of illegal dumping on municipal property. According to court records, ICUNJ contends that the company was…
A Mercer County grand jury returned an eight-count indictment last week charging a West Windsor man with recklessly causing the death of College of New Jersey student Michael Sot. David Lamar, 23, was indicted on one count of first-degree aggravated manslaughter, one count of second-degree death by auto and six counts of second-degree assault by…
New Jersey and a coalition of 43 other states have filed a lawsuit accusing 20 generic drug companies of conspiring to artificially inflate the prices of more than one hundred generic drugs, in violation of federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws. Eleven of the pharmaceutical companies named in the lawsuit are based in…
A Millstone man has been sentenced to five years in prison for hacking into the private cloud-based accounts of two women and stealing sexually explicit videos and photos of them that he then posted on publicly accessible sites. Patrick Farrell, 37, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree computer theft and was sentenced this week. An…
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is creating two statewide initiatives to promote public safety and strengthen the public’s confidence in the criminal justice system: a statewide conviction review unit and a statewide cold case network. The conviction review unit will be funded partially with a U.S. Department of Justice grant. The new unit will…
A star Princeton University men’s basketball player who allegedly punched a campus police officer in the Wawa last month is scheduled to appear in municipal court on March 4 at 1 p.m.. Devin Cannady, Princeton’s leading scorer who ranks fifth on the university’s all-time scoring list, was arrested after a confrontation with customers and police…
The New Jersey Appellate Division has issued a ruling preventing the state’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority from seizing a home in a low-income section of Atlantic City near the Absecon Lighthouse for an unspecified future redevelopment. Today the court affirmed an Atlantic County Superior Court judge’s ruling that the condemnation of a residential property next…
The municipality of Princeton has reached a tentative settlement with seven police officers who sued the town. The officers alleged that they were harassed by a former police chief . The settlement avoids a potentially lengthy and costly trial. The governing body for the municipality still must approve the agreement, and is expected to do…
The New Jersey Bureau of Securities has filed a lawsuit against a Princeton couple alleging that the pair schemed to fraudulently sell investments in gas and oil projects to members of their social circle in the local community. The couple allegedly spent a significant portion of the investor funds on luxury vacations, country club payments,…
The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners temporarily suspended the license of a physician participating in the state’s medicinal marijuana program amid allegations that he created a multi-million dollar enterprise by indiscriminately authorizing marijuana use for thousands of patients he met in hotel conference centers across the state. Dr. Anthony Anzalone, 66, who has been…
A Hamilton man who had more than 49,000 files of child pornography on his computer when he was arrested last year in the multi-agency child protection initiative “Operation Safety Net” pleaded guilty Monday to distributing child pornography. Callen Kapschock, 56, pleaded guilty to second-degree distribution of child pornography before Mercer County Superior Court Judge Peter…
A Mercer County Superior Court judge today tossed out a lawsuit filed by a Princeton couple challenging the local school district’s use of electronic voting at public meetings. Judge Mary Jacobson ruled that the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education’s use of an electronic voting system at meetings does not violate the state’s open public meetings…
