New Jersey Herald
State police charged Ian Schweizer, 38, with simple assault after the alleged April 21 incident, but at a virtual court hearing on Tuesday, a prosecutor said Schweizer would also face four additional counts of sexual and aggravated assault. A hearing to determine whether he will stay in jail while the case is heard, originally scheduled for Thursday, was postponed until next week.
The incident comes a month after the state Attorney General s Office issued a report concluding there was a breakdown in communication between state police and the Sussex prosecutors over the 2017 allegations, but no signs of improper or corrupt influence. Some troopers from the Sussex barracks had claimed Schweizer s family connections had played a role in the dismissal of the charges.
N.J. man faces new assault charge years after another allegation led to a bitter fight between State Police and prosecutors
Updated 12:13 PM;
The son of a former county official faces a new assault accusation years after sexual assault charges were dropped in a case that led to a bitter fight between State Police and local prosecutors.
Ian Schweizer, 38, has been charged with simple assault for attempting to cause “bodily injury to another,” according to Sussex County Sheriff’s records. He is currently in the Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Institute ahead of a Superior Court hearing.
In 2017, a woman accused Schweizer of attacking her outside a bar. Troopers arrested him, but the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office decided there was not enough evidence to bring to court, which led both sides to accuse the other of misconduct.
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A 46-year-old Wantage man was fatally stabbed in an altercation in the township Thursday evening, the Sussex County Prosecutor s Office said on Friday.
The incident occurred around 7:20 p.m. at a home on Lewisburg Road, according to Trooper Alejandro Goez, a New Jersey State Police spokesman. The single-family home is located just off of
Route 23.
The man was taken by ambulance to Newton Medical Center where he died of his injuries, according to Goez. A 59-year-old man, also of Wantage, was also stabbed during the incident but was treated at the hospital and released.
Goez and First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller declined to release their names, citing the continuing investigation. Mueller said there is no sign of a continuing threat to the public.
N.J. town placed on lockdown after man fires gun during confrontation with cop, authorities say
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
A confrontation between police and an emotionally-disturbed man Monday in Sussex County ended when the man fired a shot toward a police officer and fled, leading to a town-wide lockdown, authorities said.
Officers were called about 1:45 p.m. to the Newton Town Centre apartments on Spring Street, according to Gregory Mueller, Sussex County’s first assistant prosecutor.
“The police responded to a call involving an individual in distress,” Mueller said. When officers arrived, the man fired one shot from a handgun “in the direction of one of the officers,” Mueller said.