Camden County Woman Found Dead in Her Home Monday Morning
Authorities in Camden County are investigating the death of a woman who was found inside her home in Camden Monday morning.
Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill Mayer and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez say officers responded to a home on the 1000 block of S. 6th St. in Camden around 8:45 Monday morning for the report of an unresponsive woman.
When they arrived, officers found 25-year-old Tonia Yamileth Zavaleta of Camden in an upstairs bedroom with a visible injury to her neck. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Tuesday, the Camden County Medical Examiner ruled Zavaleta’s cause of death as a stab wound and blunt force trauma to the neck and her manner of death as a homicide.
By TONY GALLOTTO
May 7, 2021 at 9:51 AM
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in Cooper s Poynt Waterfront Park.
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in .
Credits: Camden County Police Department
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in Cooper s Poynt Waterfront Park.
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in .
Credits: Camden County Police Department
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in Cooper s Poynt Waterfront Park.
Camden County police officers interact with the community during a department-sponsored carnival in .
Bill would stiffen penalties for illegal dumping in New Jersey
It s a problem that angers residents, vexes law enforcement and frustrates city public works employees: Illegally dumped trash, waste and debris can be found all over Camden neighborhoods, and it takes a toll in money and morale in a city struggling to come back from decades of decline.
Bill Moen, who represents the Fifth Legislative District along with fellow Democrats Bill Spearman and Sen. Nilsa Cruz-Perez, introduced a bill in the state Assembly Wednesday to try and address the problem by enacting stiffer penalties for illegal dumping and making it easier for property owners to seek compensation for clean-up and other expenses.
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Tomeka Holmes (center) leads family and friends in a balloon release in her son s memory at a Camden vigil on April 14, 2021. (April Saul for WHYY)
It had been a torturous time for the parents of 20-year-old Nah’Jole Frazier.
The young Camden man a talented rapper known as Lil Zeek took a solo trip to Atlanta in March to bolster his music career.
In his absence, Gary Frazier Jr. and Tomeka Holmes received soul-crushing phone calls about their son, who had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
The first was from a Florida police precinct informing them he’d been arrested and was being sent to a psychiatric facility. Then, after they’d bought him a plane ticket home and he’d missed the flight, a hospital in South Carolina phoned to say he was being held there for mental health reasons.
One morning, Parente woke up and simply knew it was time to go.
The chief shared how he contemplated retiring last year in the wake of coronavirus protocols and 2020 protests. But despite the pressure, he says, the department managed to deal with the stress. We got through it, and actually made it out a lot better than I thought we were going to, said Parente.
He also provided some insight as to why he made the decision to retire this year. The job wears on you. It is a young man s career. I will miss it, miss the people I worked with, but it was time to move on, said Parente.