Ken Serrano

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A Berkeley man has drawn more than 230 criminal counts in connection with a spree of break-ins at storage facilities and other businesses in Monmouth and Ocean counties. Craig T. Orler, 48, has been held at Ocean County Jail since his arrest April 28 on charges of burglary, receiving stolen property, fencing, theft and criminal mischief. Brick police investigated about 40 burglaries at Cube Smart storage off Route 70 in December and January.

1 week ago | app.com | Ken Serrano

The first official word of a new deadly disease that would spiral into an epidemic turned up in a U.S. Center for Disease Control weekly report in June of 1981. The report focused on five previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles who were suffering from a rare lung infection and other problems signaling failing immune systems. At the same time, calls started filtering into the CDC from around the country about other such cases.

1 week ago | app.com | Ken Serrano

A Berkeley man accused of driving a vehicle that hit a 17-year-old on a bicycle and seriously injuring him has been charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash causing serious injury, operating a vehicle while unlicensed and tampering with evidence. Arrested on the motor vehicle charges was Michael P. Grable, 56, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. His son, Michael A. Grable, 22, also of Berkeley, was charged with hindering his father's apprehension in the case.

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A federal judge sentenced a Brick man to 15 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography in a case that included him enticing two minors during an online chat on the Kik messaging app. Christopher Budelman, 37, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, who imposed the sentence on April 23 in Trenton.

2 weeks ago | app.com | Ken Serrano

An Ocean County man and woman drew various child pornography charges and the women was accused of touching a juvenile inappropriately and sending a photo of the incident to the man, among other images, authorities said. Logan Oliveira, 23, of Toms River and Julianna Goldstein, 20, of Berkeley Township were charged in the child pornography distribution scheme.