Sheriff Department conducts sweep throughout county
Conducted with the assistance of the director and deputy director of the County Division of Welfare, the Hudson County Sheriff’s Department did a sweep for outstanding warrants from March 2 to 12.
This netted people with more than 66 outstanding warrants and collected more than $1 million in outstanding child support payments. In addition to the 66 child support warrants 20 criminal warrants, 15 jury duty warrants and one juvenile warrant were closed during this period for a total of 102 in the sweep.
Bounty hunter sentenced to six years in state prison
Adel Mikhaeil, 50, of Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sentenced to six years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto in Morris County.
Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said the bounty hunter, who formerly lived in Jersey City, was sentenced to prison for conspiring in a scheme to have sheriff’s officers sign false documents so he could collect additional fees by claiming to capture fugitives who already had been apprehended by police. He paid the sheriff’s officers for their aid. Two sheriff’s officers previously pleaded guilty to official misconduct and are awaiting sentencing.
Mikhaeil pleaded guilty on Jan. 7 to charges of conspiracy, official misconduct, offering an unlawful benefit to a public servant for official behavior, commercial bribery, theft by deception and witness tampering, all of which were contained in a Sept. 30, 2008 indictment obtained by the Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau. According to Hoffman, Mikhaeil admitted that, in addition to the scheme in which he bribed the sheriff’s officers, he paid bribes to an insurance company executive and an employee of a company that locates fugitives for bail bond insurers in return for giving him more business.
Summer work program to hold information sessions
Jersey City is hiring for hundreds of summer jobs through the Jersey City Summer Works Program.
The program, which last summer successfully placed nearly 1,000 students in jobs, includes the the Summer Recreation Department Jobs Program, the City Youth Jobs Program, a municipal jobs program across other city departments and agencies, including the Law Department, the Business Administrator’s Office, Communications, and Housing and Economic Development; the Summer Works Arts Program, which provides arts enrichment and financial compensation for youth who will work in public mural arts internships; and the Jersey City Summer Internship Program through the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation.
The program is for residents ages 16 to 21 and includes such positions as camp counselors, recreation aides, life guards, locker room attendants, and Stop the Drop team members. JC Summer Works also offers the Saturday Jump Start program, a series of free enrichment, career guidance and certification workshops in partnership with higher education institutions and nonprofits.
Residents can submit applications and interview for employment through the Summer Recreation Jobs Program at Bethune Center, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Pershing Field, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; City Hall, April 14 from 5 to 9 p.m. and St. Aloysius School April 16, from 5 to 9p.m.
This program is open for Jersey City residents only. The application deadline is April 17. Applicants must have clear copies of the following materials to be admitted: Photo ID, Social Security Card and Proof of Address.
For those young people, ages 16 to 24, seeking jobs in other city departments, hiring sessions for the City Youth Jobs program will be held Thursdays in April from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at City Hall, 280 Grove Street.
For more information, please visit www.jerseycitysummerworks.org.
Spinning benefit on April 11 will benefit injured triathlete
Glenn Hartrick, an avid triathlete, member of GCTri and Jersey City resident, was on a routine training ride the morning of June 12, 2014 when he was involved in a very serious crash resulting in injuries which left him paralyzed from the chest down. After many surgeries Glenn continues his recovery at Kessler Rehabilitation Center on an outpatient basis. Although his life has been altered by this tragic event, he hasn’t given up on his love for endurance racing and is currently training to participate as a challenged athlete with his new hand cycle at the Unite Half Marathon on April 12 and the NYC Marathon later this year.
On Saturday April 11 from 1:30 to 6 p.m. a benefit event sponsored by the Gold Coast Triathlon Club of Hoboken will take place at Wheelhaus Bikegarten, 720 Monroe St., Room C-301, Hoboken, and all funds raised will go directly to helping pay for Glenn’s medical bills. Spin sessions will begin at 1:30 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4 p.m., and 5:15 p.m., with an after party at the Tilted Kilt, 800 Jackson St., Hoboken. Donation for participants is $100 per session.
Register for the event and/or donate at the event website, www.spinning4glenn.com. Glenn’s Glenn’s personal webpage is at www.glennhartrick.com.
1st annual walk against Lupus will be May 17
May 17 in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park begins a new tradition of family-friendly activities as Daddy’s Sunshine the Fight against Lupus introduces “The First Annual Hudson County Lupus Walk.” Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 10 a.m. Donation for individual walkers is $10. To sign up and/or donate, visitwww.daddysunshine.com or www.hudsoncountylupuswalk.com. For more information, call (551) 689-0500.
Liberty Humane Society opens new Spay/Neuter clinic
Non-profit animal shelter Liberty Humane Society has announces the opening of its own dedicated spay/neuter clinic. Liberty Humane Society is the animal shelter for Jersey City, Bayonne, and Hoboken, and has a strict spay-neuter policy, meaning all animals are altered before adoption. This is done to ease the financial and logistic burden of spay/neuter on adopters and to reduce the number of unwanted pets born through accidental litters of puppies and kittens.
Prior to the clinic opening LHS was forced to transport adoptable animals 80 miles each way to a partner clinic.
LHS’s own clinic is housed in a customized RV, fully equipped, on LHS grounds. Staffed by experienced and specialized veterinarians and technicians, the shelter will now be able to spay or neuter adoptable animals on site. The first day of operation, on Wednesday, March 25, saw the safe and effective alteration of five of the shelter’s animals. While access to the clinic is only available for animals in the shelter’s care at this time, shelter officials hope to grow the clinic’s capacity to eventually serve other local shelters and rescues and to help in TNR efforts.
To learn more about Liberty Humane Society and the new Spay/Neuter Clinic, please visitwww.libertyhumane.org.