Thursday, December 20, 2012
Administration files response denying allegations
The township of Howell has responded to a lawsuit filed by four current and former employees claiming discrimination and a hostile work environment and denied the allegations. The original complaint filed in Monmouth County Superior Court was submitted by Angela Martino, Donna Ennas and Donna Balton and Lucy Ravally was added later. In the lawsuit, the women accused Howell Township Court Administrator Dominick Pondaco of referring to them as "idiots," "monkeys" and a slur word for female anatomy. According to the complaint, the plaintiffs claimed Pondaco engaged in a pattern of "mentally abusive, sexually abusive, sexually harassing and offensive behavior." According to the employees' attorney, Rosemarie Arnold, the women repeatedly asked …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Robert Dunbar was released from Monmouth County Correctional Institute on Aug. 20.
Robert Dunbar, a Manalapan man accused of shooting an off-duty New York city police officer last month, posted bail on Aug. 20 and was released from Monmouth County Correctional Institute. Dunbar allegedly shot the officer after finding him in his Taylors Mills Road home with his estranged wife on Aug. 10. According to court documents, Dunbar obtained the gun from the police officer and shot three rounds, striking the man once in the back. Dunbar initially evaded police after the shooting, but surrendered to authorities the next day. He was arrested and placed in Monmouth County Correctional Institute on $500,000 bail with no 10 percent chase bond. Dunbar had his initial appearance in front of Judge Ronald Reisner in Monmouth County …
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Man allegedly accepted bribe while working for soil conservation district
A man from the Manasquan Park section of Wall Township is facing charges in Monmouth County Superior Court after he allegedly accepted a bribe from an undercover officer while working in an official capacity for the Freehold Soil Conservation District. John Tonon, 51, of Lakewood Road, is charged in relation to an Oct. 26 incident in Hazlet in which authorities say he accepted $700 from an undercover officer of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, to influence his work as a soil conservationist and inspector. According to a release from the Prosecutor's Office, the bribe was intended to expedite the permitting process for a recently built home. The second degree crime is a violation of state statue NJSA 2C:27-2 which prohibits the …
Jim Flynn
9:17 am on Thursday, April 18, 2013
AND the case was moved from Monmouth County to Middlesex County. Probably because of a conflict between Monmouth County Court and Howell Municipal Court more ›