Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The shootings happened at Popeye's Chicken on Mount Ephraim Avenue, which sits near the borders of Haddon Township and Collingswood.
Police are searching for a man they believe is responsible for a shooting that left one man dead and another injured in Camden on Tuesday. Video of the man sought was captured at Popeye's Chicken on Mount Ephraim Avenue, which is the near the border of Haddon Township and Collingswood. The video was taken at 9:43 p.m. Tuesday. The shooting was reported minutes later. The Camden County Prosecutor's Office and Camden Police believe the man pictured shot Alvin Cushion, 24, of Camden; he later died. A 33-year-old Camden man was injured in the shooting, but survived. Both were in a 1997 tan Infiniti I30 at the Popeye's drive-through, police said. The surviving victim, who was shot in the leg, was found at the Sovereign Bank on Mount Ephraim …
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Collingswood police initially believed Zedrick T. Johnson of Willingboro to have been unconnected with the Collingswood crimes. Johnson was captured Feb. 22 in connection with a murder in his hometown.
Less than a year after he was released from prison, 34-year-old Zedrick T. Johnson could be headed back there soon, and for a long time. Collingswood Police believe the Willingboro man, who was apprehended in Camden City Feb. 22 on murder and robbery charges, is also the man who stabbed and robbed a Gulf gas station attendant Feb. 15 and carjacked a vehicle on Pacific Avenue on Feb. 21. They announced formal charges in connection with those incidents Tuesday. In the Feb. 15 gas station robbery and assault, Collingswood Police charged Johnson with first-degree armed robbery, second-degree aggravated assault, third-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and fourth-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. His bail was set at $…
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Camden County Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. called the move a failure of leadership that 'defies logic,' and promised new officer trainees will hit the streets in March.
Rank-and-file members of the Camden City Fraternal Order of Police voted down a proposal from the Camden County Freeholders to join the Camden County Metro Police Division or forfeit their years of service on the job. The offer failed to pass by a measure of 142-62 on Thursday, with 204 of 234 members voting. That final tally means that the police union in the most dangerous city in America will try its luck challenging the labor reorganization in the court system, as an April 30 deadline to dissolve the city force in favor of a countywide Metro Division looms. The deal on the table Thursday would have created a special exception allowing for as much as 100 percent of the current department to be hired by the Metro Division while …
Will the deal have a big impact on crime for Camden County residents? According to two veteran officers, the outcome is uncertain.
After 27 years with the Camden City Police Department, Richard Desmond has been through layoffs, labor negotiations, and general unpleasantness on the job. As a retired sergeant, he heads up the Emerald Society drum and bagpipe band, a ceremonial outfit he says has played at funeral services for more than 400 police officers and firefighters up and down the east coast. But burying the Camden City P.D. to make way for the countywide Metro Division is a deal he thinks will ultimately create a force that, even if larger, is no cheaper and far less experienced than the current corps of men and women policing the city. Far from the fight-'em-there mentality of the Camden County Freeholders—which has promised that a larger force will contain the…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
If the F.O.P. doesn't sign on, 51 percent of Camden City officers could be frozen out of the Metro division. Those who do follow could lose years of accrued pay eligibility.
Camden County freeholders have taken their latest case for the Camden County Metro Division public, releasing the terms of an offer that seeks to bring the current Camden City police officers on board by Jan. 31. That's the deadline the county has given the Camden City Fraternal Order of Police. to accept its latest offer—or face the potential loss of career longevity and a hiring process capped (by labor laws) at a maximum of 49 percent of its current staff. To emphasize the point, the county government also announced last week the transfer from the Camden City P.D. of the first three members of the Metro P.D.—Deputy Chief Michael Lynch, Sgt. Joe Williams, and Det. Gabriel Camacho—as well as $5.5 million in startup dollars from the state…
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Kyle J. Cerone, Michael R. Marengo and Anthony Calabrese were all arrested for allegedly loitering to obtain drugs in a high-traffic area of the city.
Collingswood residents Kyle J. Cerone, 21, Michael R. Marengo, Jr., 26, and Anthony Calabrese, 26, were among 142 patrons of Camden City open-air drug markets arrested in “Operation Padlock,” reported the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office in a press release Monday. All three were charged with loitering for the purposes of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance (CDS), a disorderly persons offense under New Jersey law. Operation Padlock is described by the prosecutor’s office as an initiative that coordinates “police action with public works and community organizations to eliminate the drug trade in a targeted area.” Authorities say the policing strategy has paid dividends, leading to more than 250 arrests on charges ranging from drug …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Mayor Dana Redd formally introduced the big names signed on to the project, including a few familiar faces.
“We are declaring peace in the city,” Camden City Mayor Dana Redd told a roomful of reporters, supporters and at least one heckler Wednesday, at a press conference announcing the next phase of the plan to replace the city’s police department with a countywide police force. Redd described Camden as an up-and-coming, “regional leader of the ‘eds and meds,’” but warned that without improved public safety in the city, “these efforts will be in vain.” “This is not a political decision,” Redd said. “Yeah, it is!” a voice from the back of the room instantly barked back. Leveling her gaze without raising her voice, Redd continued from her prepared remarks, which accused unnamed opponents of the plan of intentionally spreading misinformation about …
Matthew Shields of Westville is being held on $50,000 bail after allegedly hospitalizing the victim with a sucker punch.
An alleged assault at Tuesday's Jimmy Buffett show at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden left one man in critical condition and landed another in jail. According to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, Matthew Shields, 21, of Westville, sucker-punched a 20-year-old Bellmawr man in the back of the head in parking lot nine of the Center. The man subsequently struck his head on the pavement and was seriously injured. Authorities say the two are acquainted. Shields turned himself in to the Westville Police Wednesday morning as a warrant was being issued for his arrest. He was charged with aggravated assault and is currently being held in the Camden County correctional facility on $50,000 bail. Detective Kevin Lutz of the Camden Police …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Mayors from several Camden County towns endured jeers and taunts from the crowd of 75-plus while denying entry to a delegation of police chiefs.
Waving signs that read “WE DEMAND RESPECT FOR CAMDEN” and “PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT PUBLIC SLAVES,” some 75 picketers gathered outside the Camden County Boathouse Tuesday evening to protest a closed-door meeting of several local mayors on the subject of replacing the Camden police department with a county-based metro division. Chanting “Sell-out” as each successive attendee arrived, the crowd cheered when a passing car or truck honked in support, and heckled the building through bullhorns for nearly two solid hours. Among those coordinating the opposition were Camden City residents, police and firefighters from throughout the county, and their families. To a person, they expressed nearly the same concerns—that details of the reorganization plan…
Friday, August 17, 2012
County officials plan to apply for a one-year exemption from civil service hiring rules to comb through 1,500 applicants and create a turnkey force by January.
After a lengthy public comment period at the Magnolia community center Thursday night, the Camden County Freeholders took another step forward in the process to replace the Camden City police force with a county-led metro division. The body can now formally apply to the state Civil Service Commission for a one-year exemption from government hiring rules to start reviewing candidates for the new force. The request is expected to be fast-tracked. The freeholders also formally accepted $60,000 from the New Jersey Division of Local Government Services that will be applied to the start-up costs involved in sifting through the 1500 letters of interest they’ve already received for the unit. Freeholder Louis Cappelli said that policing consultant …
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Matt Skoufalos
10:48 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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