Daily Archives: May 21, 2010
Veteran Perth Amboy middle-school teacher charged with sexually assaulting female student
William Santamaria, also known as Guillermo Santamaria, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student during a six-year period.
Santamaria is (was) a social studies teacher at Samuel E. Shull School, and an adjunct professor in the software engineering department at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. Santamaria is alleged to have sexually assaulted the girl on numerous occasions in Perth Amboy from the fall of 1997 up to her 18th birthday in 2004.
Story is here.
Man charged with stealing jewelry from home he was landscaping
On May 13, police responded to a Spruce Avenue, Ocean Township home where the resident said someone had entered the home, possibly through an open window, and taken several pieces of jewelry. Police learned that Kyle Vallone had pawned several items of jewelry at a West Park Avenue gold and jewelry cash exchange store. Vallone admitted to police that he had entered the Spruce Avenue home and took the jewelry. He was arrested and charged with burglary and theft.
The Spruce Avenue resident found Vallone advertising his landscaping services on Craigslist.
Story is here.
Cops charge four in home burglary spree
A six-month investigation ended in four home burglars who are accused of stealing from retirement communities and then selling the jewelry and cash at local pawn shops. The burglaries occurred in Manchester township’s Cedar Glen West retirement community and Roosevelt City section. The four arrested are Brad Golaszewski of Manchester; Shaun McCabe of Manchester; Nicholas Hennings of Manchester, and a 17-year-old male of Toms River.
Story is here.
57-year-old woman led police on a foot chase after shooting a man with a BB gun
Susan Clayton was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, burglary, violent behavior, criminal mischief and weapons charges after shooting a man with a BB gun and then running away from police. On Thursday, when Nicholas Skokus noticed minor damage to his car parked on Newman Street, neighbors told him Clayton had backed her car into it. When Skokus knocked on Clayton’s door to confront her, he said, Clayton became agitated, so he walked away. Clayton then shot a BB gun a few times, hitting him once.
Two oikuce officers then pursued Clayton, who first ran back into her home and then ran out through a back door. She then attempted to break into another woman’s house. She was found hiding in a neighbor’s shed one block away from her home.
Story is here.
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