Two months after a 19-year-old Neptune City went missing, a pair of her former high school classmates have been arrested and charged.
Elsewhere in the state, authorities say a woman allegedly beat her 74-year-old husband to death with a fire extinguisher. Also, a 5-year-old child was allegedly tossed onto light rail tracks by a stranger.
That quartet is among a group of people either charged with, indicted for, convicted of or sentenced in a wide array of crimes that made news across New Jersey in the past week.
Click through the gallery above to catch up on any law and order news you might have missed. Here's are sample of what else happened in the past week:
- Video shows a 48-year-old man punching a bishop in the face during a Mass at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
- The 52-year-old police commissioner in South Hackensack smiled in his booking photo after he was arrested on charges he hit his wife.
- A 42-year-old Belleville man has been arrested on charges he killed his girlfriend, who was found dead in the trunk of her car in Newark.
- A former state clerk will spend three years in prison for falsifying employment records to collect government assistance meant for poor people. The 40-year-old collected more than $82,000 in benefits.
- A $70,000 Torah was stolen from a Lakewood school. A $5,000 reward has been offered for information about the burglary.
- Five more people have been charged with filing false applications for relief for Hurricane Sandy damage to homes that were not primary residences, authorities said.
- A 42-year-old Bergen County corrections officer from Lyndhurst was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a girl over a decade ago.
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