UPDATE: This article has been corrected to reflect Julio Perez's employer was JP Installations.
EDISON, NJ–On August 27, 36-year-old Julio Perez died after an accident at the NU World Beauty Supply warehouse on Mill Road in Edison's Heller Industrial Park.
Perez, a New Brunswick resident with Guatemalan roots, was killed at 4:15 p.m. "when a section of steel scaffolding accidentally collapsed inside the warehouse," according to a statement released by the Township.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—For the fourth year running, the Central Jersey Jazz Festival will run from September 16-18, returning to the City of New Brunswick on September 17.
Seating at Monument Square, just outside the Heldrich Hotel, starts at 12:00 p.m. with performances beginning at 1:00 p.m. rain or shine.
The Central Jersey Jazz Festival was incorporated in 2012. It started out with events in Somerville and New Brunswick, and added a third day of music in Flemington in 2013.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ—On August 14, at the Annual India Day parade, a member of the Asian Indian community was sworn in to serve the Fourth Ward on the Township Council for the first time in history.
Woodbridge is the state's sixth-largest muncipality by population, with just over 100,00 residents, a quarter of which are of Asian descent.
The Fourth Ward includes the Iselin and Menlo Park Terrace sections of the Township, home to a large concentration of Asian Indians.
PISCATAWAY, NJ—On August 24, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced that two NJ residents, along with a Florida man, were charged as ringleaders of an auto-theft network that preyed on people selling their vehicles on Craigslist.
FRANKLIN, NJ—A 13-year-old resident from Somerset is dead after being struck while riding his bike.
Andrew C. Russoniello attempted to turn left from Amwell Road onto Elizabeth bike in Franklin Township on August 29 when he was struck by a 2013 Nissan Versa, Franklin Township Police Department Sgt. Philip Rizzo said.
The driver of that vehicle, 23-year-old Red Bank resident Robert Terracciano, remained on the scence and was not injured.
As authorities investigated the crash, Amwell Road was closed for a few hours.
SAYREVILLE, NJ–The Middlesex County Utilities Authority's seven-member board has a new member, as of August 18, when the Board of Chosen Freeholders approved the nomination of Robert Diehl.
Diehl, an Edison Councilman, replaces Robert Karabinchak on the powerful board, which controls the county's landfill and sewer systems in portions of three different counties.
Karabinchak left the authority's board to become a New Jersey Assemblyman earlier this year.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On August 14, outside the Key Food supermarket, cops arrested a woman from North Brunswick after searching a vehicle with several smashed windows.
More than a half-dozen officers were seen questioning a pair of young people, and aggressively searching damaged vehicle.
It wasn't totally clear what was going on, but apparently it all began with "reports of gunshots and a fleeing vehicle," according to the New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD).
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