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JUDGE GIVES N.J. OK

TO SEIZE PROPERTY

Company cited,
fined following
fatal accident
at work site

Beachfront owners had asked to block DEP from

acquiring their land for replenishment after Sandy

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

BERKELEY TOWNSHIP - A Piscataway company

has been fined $32,900 and cited for five serious safety violations following a construction accident that
claimed the life of a Keansburg man.
Raymond Crosby, 52, was killed Sept. 24 after a
roof collapsed on him during demolition work at the
Beachwood Shopping Center. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a report last week on the accident, which shut down the
construction site.
Edgewood Properties was in charge of the demolition at the Route 9 site, where work has now resumed.
A spokesman for Edgewood Properties is on vacation
this week and could not be reached for comment.
Among the violations OSHA found:
Employees at the site had not been trained to recognize potential hazards, like unplanned collapses and
falling debris in the old Woolworths building.
No engineering survey was performed at the
Woolworth building site to determine the conditions
of the framing floors and walls and assess the chance
of a collapse.
See SITE, Page 5A

ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE PHOTO

An NJ Transit police officer and his K-9 stand at the Trenton

Transportation Center in 2011.

THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Eroded dunes along the coastline in the northern end of Normandy Beach on January 25.

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

TOMS RIVER - The state can seize parts of oceanfront land for a beach replenishment project in Ocean
County, a judge has ruled.
Superior Court Assignment Judge Marlene Lynch
Ford ruled against 28 oceanfront property owners who
had asked the judge to block the state Department of
Environmental Protections attempts to acquire a portion of their land to build bigger beaches.
The ruling could help pave the way for a long-delayed beach replenishment project from the Manasquan to Barnegat inlets, an area that was among the
hardest hit when superstorm Sandy roared ashore in
October 2012.
The DEP has been collecting easements the legal
documents beachfront homeowners must sign to give
access to their land so that the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers can complete the beach replenishment
work. Some holdouts have refused to sign easements,
and dozens of them have challenged the DEPs condemnation process in court.
We are pleased by todays decision, DEP Commissioner Bob Martin said. Ultimately the states interest
is simply in providing much-needed and overdue pro-

DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP

THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Eroded dunes near 5th Avenue in the northern end of

Normandy Beach.

See PROPERTY, Page 7A

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Is the Islamic State targeting New Jersey police officers?

A self-described pro-ISIS group posted the names
of 55 New Jersey Transit police officers, their addresses and phone numbers on social media, and
urged followers to carry out lone wolf attacks, according to several news reports.
The so-called Caliphate Cyber Army first posted
the threats on Twitter on March 6, and then again on
Monday, according to NBC New York. They have
since been taken down.
Michael Whitaker, a spokesperson for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, said his agency is providing
assistance to NJ Transit police. The Department of
Homeland Security also is assisting in the investigation, NJ Transit officials said.
A New Jersey Transit spokesperson told the Asbury Park Press that it was an outside vendor who was
See ISIS, Page 5A