Second deadly Barnegat Bay crash in week — NJ Top News
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⬛ Ringwood man charged after toddler tests positive for cocaine in Wildwood
WILDWOOD — Police administered Nalaxone to a 2-year-old being taken to a hospital on Monday.
Alexander T. Moles, 39, of Ringwood was driving the toddler to a hospital because he was having trouble breathing, according to Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland. First responders administered two doses of Nalaxone, aka Narcan, and brought him to Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional. A blood test on the child came back positive for cocaine.
Court documents show Noles was staying at an Airbnb with a woman and other children and was getting ready to check out at 11 a.m. While the woman took a shower it was Noles responsibility to watch the children. When the woman got out of the shower she noticed the child was sleepy.
On the way to the hospital, the Noles called the woman and asked if it was okay if the child fell asleep. She told him it was not and called 911. Noles told police that he thought the child had taken "pain killers." At the hospital Noles requested a lawyer after being read his Miranda.
⬛ Man, 26, killed in second fatal Barnegat Bay boat crash in a week
TOMS RIVER — Another deadly boating crash involving an Intracoastal Waterway channel marker has claimed a life in Ocean County, less than a week after two children were killed in a similar collision.
A 32-foot Boston Whaler carrying five people struck a channel marker in Barnegat Bay just before 11 p.m. Saturday on one of the busiest boating weekends of the summer, according to State Police Trooper Christopher Postorino.
Michael T. Bereheiko, 26, of Green Brook, was pronounced dead at the hospital, troopers said.
Authorities released few details about the incident but said first responders encountered the victims at a residence on Silver Lagoon Drive in Toms River, where the boat operator, Kevin Wells, 39, of Warren Township, piloted the vessel to after the crash.
Steven Pochick, 27, of Green Brook, and Nicholas Cherasaro, 27, of North Plainfield, were sent to the hospital for serious injuries. Sarah Stulh, 24, from the Bayville section of Berkeley, had what troopers described as minor injuries.
Late on July 19, a boat operated by 63-year-old Stephen Schneider, of the Bayville section of Berkeley, crashed into an Intracoastal Waterway channel marker, killing his young grandson and granddaughter.
⬛ Young campers sickened by mushroom-laced edibles in East Orange
EAST ORANGE — Some young North Jersey campers, mostly between the ages of 10 and 13, are recovering after eating what police think were drug-laced edible candy.
It happened Thursday morning at the YMCA summer camp on North Arlington Avenue. At least 13 kids fell ill. The mother of a 12 year old says the kids "looked like zombies."
Police think they ate mushroom laced edibles. One parent told News 12 that the child who handed out the candy-looking edible said they got it as a birthday gift from a family member.
One child was hospitalized as a precaution. A suspect has been identified but no charges have been filed yet.
⬛ NJ teen turns backyard gardens into lifeline for hungry families
WESTFIELD — To help fight food insecurity, a 16-year-old New Jersey high school student started a nonprofit after realizing how much fresh produce from backyard gardens goes unused each summer, while many local families struggle to access fresh fruits and vegetables.
Caroline Sahm, a rising Westfield High School junior, has always enjoyed gardening with her family.
“When I was 13, I learned that one of the local pantries near us was having difficulty sourcing fresh produce consistently,” Sahm said.
So, Sahm began Westfield Seeds of Change, with the idea of taking surplus produce, and inviting other other neighbors to do the same with their gardens, and donating the food to St. James Food Pantry in Woodbridge.
For the past three years, Sahm has been busy every day taking donated freshly grown garden fruits and veggies to the pantry.
She is asking residents to drop off excess produce to her home at 610 Coolidge Street, Westfield. All produce dropped off will be taken the same day to the pantry.
To date, Sahm has collected 600 pounds of fresh produce to St. James, and she wants to do more.
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