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NEARBY NEWS ROUNDUP: Ex-employee of Freehold YMCA pleads guilty to child pornography possession
What Patch.com reported nearby from Jan. 11 through Jan. 17.
- A bookkeeper from Atlantic Highlands who embezzled more than half a million dollars from the publisher of Red Bank Red Hot was sentenced to five years in state prison. []
- Jersey Shore’s Jenni “JWoWW” Farley was announced to appear Feb. 10 at Barnes & Noble in the Monmouth Mall to sign copies of her recently released dating tome, The Rules According to JWoWW. Last week, to promote A Shore Thing. []
- Following the fraud conviction of a former pharmacist from Freehold, a Toms River CVS and two New York stores will repay $900,000 worth of improperly received Medicaid payments to state taxpayers. []
- A 61-year-old Brick man was found dead in his car parked outside the Rite Aid drug store on Bridge Avenue in Point Pleasant Borough. Police are still not releasing the name of the man, who died of natural causes as early as Jan. 11, two days before a passerby reported him slumped over the wheel of his car in the lot. []
- A former employee of the Freehold YMCA pleaded guilty Friday to child pornography charges in federal court. Wall resident Thomas Freeman, 54, admitted he saved several hundred images of illicit material to his home computer. []
- The Wall Township Board of Education is currently considering closing West Belmar Elementary School. []
- A family dispute over the sale of a home led to an armed hostage situation in the Shore Acres section of Brick on Sunday. []
- A resolution passed by the Red Bank Council settled litigation between the borough and the YMCA, and effectively approved the sale of the borough’s historic hall on Monmouth Street to Red Bank Catholic. []
- A Brick resident died after he fell off a 30-foot roof at a construction site in East Brunswick on Jan. 11. []
- The Belmar Fire District received a total of $285,950 in funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. []
- A Toms River man who ran a private military academy for youths pleaded guilty to child pornography last Thursday. []
- A two-alarm fire tore through a residence at 608 Fifth Ave. in Bradley Beach last Wednesday. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation. []
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