Former Deptford Township police officer James A.Stuart, 34, was found guilty today of reckless manslaughter in the January 5, fatal shooting of a friend, 27-year-old David Compton.
This is a statement released by Gloucester County Prosecutor Charles A. Fiore regarding a deadly police-involved shooting that killed a female alleged shoplifter in Deptford Township:
An alleged shoplifting incident escalated into violence Saturday where a woman suffered fatal injuries after a police officer fired multiple shots at her when they said she attempted to run them over with a car she was driving to flee the incident.
Authorities announced that a 20-year-old Glassboro man was sentenced to prison Monday after pleading guilty to the robbery of two juveniles in a parking lot of the Good Intent Elementary School in Deptford Township NJ on August 5, 2017.
Deptford Township police officer James A. Stuart, 31, was found guilty yesterday of murder and aggravated manslaughter in the January 5, 2013 fatal shooting of 27-year-old friend David Compton in the defendant’s Oak Valley home in Deptford.
A couple from Gloucester County has been charged with the drowning-death of their 6-week-old baby, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office has announced.
Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a Philadelphia man has been indicted on charges that, as part of a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Atlantic City, he allegedly distributed a kilogram of cocaine to an undercover officer at the Deptford Mall in Gloucester County.