Teacher Accused Of Sex With Student

Also:  Second Patricide Case, Murder / Suicide in Marlboro, And Monmouth County DWI Checkpoints This Weekend

A Hamilton Township High School teacher is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student.  News Twelve reports that 24-year-old Anthony Linder-Creo allegedly had intimate relations with the girl in his Robbinsville home last month. He's charged with four counts of sexual assault in the second degree, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree.  The man has been fired.

A Lacey man has been charged with murdering his father.  The Asbury Park Press reports 36-year-old Justin Donaldson was taken into custody after his brother was denied entry when trying to check on his father, which prompted him to call 9-1-1.  Sixty-seven-year-old David Donaldson died from apparent blunt force trauma.  This is the second case of patricide on the Jersey Shore in as many months.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding out what caused a murder / suicide in Marlboro earlier this week.  Happened Tuesday midday on Albermarle Drive.  It’s believed that Felino Badua killed his wife Priscilla before killing himself.  They were both in their mid-60’s.

Monmouth County police will conduct sobriety checkpoints in Shrewsbury and Howell this weekend.  Tonight beginning at 10 on Route 35 in Shrewsbury and Saturday night around 10pm the DWI checkpoint will be on Route 9 north just south of West Farms Road.

The weekly check on statewide COVID cases:  1459 new cases announced yesterday by PCR test, another 749 by rapid test.  A COVID booster that targets the Omicron variant is now available.