In February, 2023, an Atlantic County jury convicted Jermaine Wharton on murder and weapons related offenses.
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Category: In The Courts
What’s happening in South Jersey Courts
Francisco Martinez remained one of New Jersey’s most wanted fugitives for years and was once featured on “America’s Most Wanted.”
The investigation began on the afternoon of March 21 when officers from the Medford Township Police Department were called to the residence for a report of an unconscious and unresponsive female adult.
The Honorable Nancy Ridgway, J.S.C. sentenced David Spinks to a five year prison where he must serve his entire sentence without parole.
In a random attack, Samuel Cooper, 43, allegedly assaulted a woman with a brick tied in a t-shirt while she was walking on the Atlantic City Boardwalk earlier this year.
Following a seven-week trial, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Cornell Tarte on December 20, 2022.
The investigation revealed that Marvin A. Coleman Jr. made arrangements through an app to purchase a used cell phone. Instead of buying the phone, Coleman executed the woman.
MD Hossain Morshed, 49, a councilman elected to Atlantic City’s Fourth Ward, is charged in a criminal complaint with one count of fraudulent procurement and submission of voter registration applications, one count of making false statements, and one count of wire fraud.
David Perez, 37, admitted to using some of his homemade illegal explosive devices on July 4, 2020 in the courtyard of the Honorable Luis Munoz-Marin Elementary School in Philadelphia. Use of these devices caused extensive damage. Repairs to the school were in excess of $75,000.
Vincent Tornari, 49, of Linwood, New Jersey, pled guilty via videoconference before Judge Robert B. Kugler to one count of an indictment charging him with conspiring to commit health care fraud and wire fraud.