February 2015

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A Rutgers student reported being struck in the leg with a plastic pellet shot from "an airsoft gun" believed to have been fired from a moving vehicle, according to a university crime alert.

"It is believed that the pellet was discharged from a passing vehicle traveling on Nichol Avenue towards Suydam Street," reads the crime alert on the bizarre incident, which took place Monday, February 9, at approximately 10:40 PM.

CRANBURY, NJ—Yet again, ice decorated the roads of New Jersey including its main artery, the NJ Turnpike, making driving conditions treacherous and causing a 23+ car pileup.

The highway turned into what one Twitter user called a "skating rink" between Exit 8 and Exit 8A in Middlesex County, leading to the deadly series of crashes in Cranbury Township.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A film collaboration exploring the lives of military veterans at Rutgers University will premiere Thursday, February 12 at 7 pm on the school's Douglass campus.

The screening will be held in the Nicholas Music Center, located on 85 George Street.

The documentary, "The War After: Combat to Campus," is a joint venture of the Mason Gross School of Arts and Rutgers Veterans House. It focuses on the lives of the student veterans who are transitioning back to civilian life and pursuing a post-secondary education.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ- The Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) is investigating a report of criminal sexual contact, at least the second in three days.

This incident reportedly occurred during the morning of Monday, February 9, at approximately 10:30 a.m., in the first floor stairwell of parking garage at University Center, better known as the Easton Avenue Apartments.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—After nearly a year of public hearings, more than a dozen hours of testimony, two demolitions, and numerous objections to the process moving forward, the city's Planning Board still isn't any closer to voting on a developer's controversial plans for Mine Street.

FREEHOLD, NJ—A Monmouth County judge has let New Brunswick's chief housing inspector out on probation after he was caught with a distribution quantity of cocaine in his city vehicle.

Michael Mahony was the Chief Housing Inspector for the City of New Brunswick for nineteen years, until he was busted with a "distribution quantity" of cocaine in his city-owned truck on December 19, 2013.