Your need for speed will be best spent on a high school or college track, because if it s on the roads or you ve got the phone to the ear while driving, you will now be more likely to get a ticket on Monmouth County roads, as more eyes will be watching than ever before.
The Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office has received two grants, in the amount of $20,000 each, from the New Jersey Office of Highway Traffic Safety as law enforcement will be out more often looking for signs you re driving distracted in a new campaign that begins Monday February 1 and goes through September 30, 2021.
A Monmouth County correctional police officer took an emergency holiday from work to travel with a friend to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 where they both joined the insurrection at the Capitol, according to a federal criminal complaint filed against both women.
Marissa Suarez and Patricia Todisco are among nearly a dozen New Jersey residents facing federal charges in connection to the attack.
Both women are accused of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
Federal investigators were able to track the driving route of Suarez s Jeep Wrangler early in the morning on Jan. 6, among evidence gathered as to Suarez and Todisco s involvement, according to the complaint.
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Marissa Suarez took an emergency holiday from work to go to the Trump rally that led to the Capitol riot, an affidavit said.
The affidavit said Suarez worked as a probationary corrections officer at a jail in New Jersey.
The document said she texted someone Sooo we ve stormed Capitol Hill lol during the insurrection.
A woman charged in the Capitol riot took a day off from her job as a corrections officer to travel to Washington, DC, for President Donald Trump s Stop the Steal rally that descended into the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, prosecutors said.
Since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, 38 US Capitol Police employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the head of the officers' union said Saturday.