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EAST ORANGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — There is new video in the case of missing New Jersey teenager Jashyah Moore. It shows the 14-year-old in a deli on the day she disappeared.

CBS2’s Alice Gainer has learned the reward in the case has grown to $20,000.

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Security video from a deli on Central Avenue shows Moore enter on the morning of Oct. 14. She puts some drinks on the counter and also gets some candy. An older man pays for her items and they both leave the store.

“Every day she come in here. She nice girl. She buy some Kit Kat … She buy Kit Kat every day,” deli employee Bassam Alawei said.

Jashyah Moore (Credit: Family Handout)

Police say the man seen on the video has been cooperating with them and so has Moore’s stepfather, who is currently involved in a domestic violence case against her mother.

After the first stop, it appears Moore went to nearby Poppie’s deli. Gainer talked to the manager who spoke with her that day.

“She told him that she lost her EBT card,” the manager’s daughter said, translating. “He told her you can come around 2 p.m. and we can check the camera for you, but she never came.”

On Wednesday, concerned community members blocked traffic at the intersection near Poppie’s.

“Currently, we are informing the city and trying to get the city to be outraged to ensure that we bring her back home safe, sound and unharmed,” one person said.

During their update Wednesday, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and other agencies said they initially looked at the disappearance as a potential runaway.

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“We are investigating and looking at all avenues with regards to this case. We are treating it and looking at every lead that could possibly come in,” said Mitchell McGuire, the Essex County prosecutor’s chief investigator.

On Tuesday night, Jashyah Moore’s family and neighbors formed their own search party. Her mother, Jamie Moore, insists she didn’t run away.

“She’s depending on me to find her,” Jamie Moore said.

Law enforcement also searched a nearby park and body of water, but turned up nothing.

Authorities continue to shine a light on the search.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens announced his office will be taking the lead in the investigation.

“It is vitally important that we keep up the maximum effort to find Jashyah Moore. As I said, although she is one of many thousands of people who go missing annually, this occurrence is particularly troubling,” Stephens told reporters. “Our society cannot ignore the fact that a 14-year-old girl, otherwise normal in all respects as far as we can tell, would disappear without a trace on a sunny day on a central thoroughfare in Essex County. This case cries out and demands our attention.”

Stephens also said investigators are launching a social media campaign to ask the public for help in the case.

“This case will most likely be solved by the information provided by some other concerned citizen,” he said. “Somewhere in the members of this community, they are going to be essential to moving this along.”

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The FBI, New Jersey State Police and East Orange Police Department are working together to find the teen. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 877-847-7432 or 973-266-5041. Tips can be made anonymously.

Gov. Phil Murphy is stepping up efforts to promote clean energy and fight climate change.

During an event at a Mount Olive solar farm on Wednesday, the governor signed an executive order that fast-tracks the state’s goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“This is not a course change, it is a course acceleration, with a new interim reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 50% below the 2006 levels by the year 2030,” he said.

New Jersey already has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by the year 2050.

He said as many Garden State residents continue to recover from the recent flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, it has become clear the impact of climate change is already upon us.

“The time for wakeup calls is frankly long past, and while we can’t turn back the clock, we also can’t keep hitting snooze, now is the time for bold action,” he said.

Murphy said the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation so “the Department of Environmental Protection and the Board of Public Utilities are collectively dedicating more than $13 million to assist communities with longstanding air quality issues, to electrify their school bus and municipal truck fleets.”

At the same time, the governor said the New Jersey Economic Development Authority will invest an additional $20 million “in its NJ Zip program that works with an even broader array of communities, looking to purchase electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles.”

He said these funds will come from the proceeds the state is getting from rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative market-based effort among several Northeast states to cap and reduce CO2 emissions in order to reduce climate change.

Former Gov. Chris Christie pulled New Jersey out of RGGI in 2012 because he said it was a tax on utility customers.

EmpowerNJ, a statewide coalition of more than 125 environmental, civic, faith and social-justice groups and organizations issued a statement in support of the governor’s actions.

“This is what climate science demands and it’s a goal EmpowerNJ has been working for over the past 3 years. This is an essential step forward in the fight to avert climate catastrophe.”

“Now we need the administration to immediately mandate this goal of 50% greenhouse gas reductions through rules and regulations including in their soon to be released NJ PACT. The DEP must also grant the EmpowerNJ petition which calls for this reduction as well as a prohibition on all new fossil fuel projects as a critical next step towards achieving the goal.”

The state’s leading business group, the New Jersey Business and Industry Association called for more “pragmatic and realistic policies.”

“While it’s laudable to attempt to address climate change through carbon reduction, it’s imperative that New Jersey not put forth energy benchmarks that are both impractical and improbable,” NJBIA Vice President of Government Affairs Ray Cantor said. “New Jersey’s energy goals should instead consider realistic policies that reduce carbon while also assuring affordable and reliable energy for all our citizens and businesses.”

“When you consider that New Jersey’s greenhouse gas reduction target is currently 20% of 2006 levels – requiring 15 years to get there, primarily through the state’s energy transition from coal to natural gas – it’s simply not feasible to get to 50% by the year 2030 without jeopardizing energy reliability or greatly impacting costs for all New Jerseyans.”

You can contact reporter David Matthau at David.Matthau@townsquaremedia.com.

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LONG BRANCH — The state has identified the 34-year-old man and three Monmouth County police officers involved in a deadly standoff in Long Branch last weekend.

Mark Walker, of Virginia, shot one officer in the leg as police tried to serve a warrant at an apartment in connection with a homicide investigation on Friday night, according to the Office of the Attorney General.

Members of the Monmouth County Emergency Response Team were called to the scene, as officers retreated to outside the building.

By 2 a.m. on Saturday, a fire broke out in the apartment at 274 Chelsea Ave. where Walker had barricaded himself, authorities said, and Walker ran out while shooting at law enforcement.

Patrolmen Eric Voorand of Manalapan Police, Daniel Murphy of Howell Police, and Omar Akel of Middletown Police, respectively – all returned fire and Walker was killed.

The state Attorney General’s Office is now probing the case as is standard with all police-involved shootings.

Walker had at one point been holding a newborn baby during the standoff, according to NBC 4 New York and Asbury Park Press, which cited unnamed sources.

The two-week-old infant was unharmed, both reports said.

The fire during the standoff damaged the top floors of the building where two families had been tenants for over 30 years, according to a GoFundMe page created to assist the Itzol family.

As of Wednesday night, the campaign had raised about $33,000, roughly half of its goal.

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BERNARDS — A landscaping truck servicing a Basking Ridge property burst into flames Wednesday evening, leaving rush-hour traffic backed up on Deer Ridge Road.

The 911 call reporting the fire was placed at 4:10 p.m., according to Liberty Corner Fire Chief Carl Blanchard. Within 30 minutes, first responders arrived, extinguishing the blaze.

“When I arrived, the bed and interior of the truck were both on fire,” Blanchard said.

Carlos Ovelar, owner of Green Valley Landscaping and the incinerated truck, said that he and his workers were returning to the Basking Ridge residence to finish a gardening job. While parked on the street, a fire started in the back of the vehicle and quickly spread to two containers of gasoline stored in the bed of the truck, causing them to explode.

“I just jumped up and ran away,” Ovelar said.

The fire burned for approximately 50 minutes, causing the tires and paint of the truck to melt, and destroying a small lawnmower.

Blanchard attributes the fire to a piece of equipment in the back of the landscaping truck.

Ovelar said there was a spare lawnmower battery in the back of the vehicle.

“Maybe the battery scraped something and generated a spark,” Ovelar said.

John Philip Kalajian is a freelance journalist in New Jersey.

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During the height of COVID lockdown, the 4-H Victory Garden Club began as a multi-county “4-H From Home,” held on Zoom twice a month with 4-H staff as its club leaders. The club learned things about houseplants, orchids, and different types of growing scenarios. There was “show and tell” with members sharing their screens with pictures of their gardens, or their favorite recipes and all the while, asking questions and learning from each other and the leaders through the technology of the internet.

When things started to open up again, the club leaders could no longer sustain a virtual club after all the youth members were Zoomed-out and aching to be outside again. The leaders wanted to keep going because they loved the topic, but knew they had to bring it into a more local, in-person setting.

Around that same time, the Verona Community Garden was in its infancy, in its first growing season. The committee was careful not to take on too many activities or spread itself too thin. But by the end of the first summer, the 4-H felt the urgency to bring the Victory Garden Club to this thriving community garden, where many youth and adults had expressed their love of gardening and enthusiasm about continuing to learn and grow together in a club setting even after the typical growing season was done.

The opportunity for young adults to join in an in-person club experience is finally returning!

Why would it be called a “Victory” Garden Club? Well, back when the online club was starting, there were real issues about acquiring fresh food. Even now, when the need for Instacart seems to have stabilized, the media is warning citizens to be concerned about shortages and supply chain problems looming ahead. So, it makes sense to continue with the same name since the definition of a Victory Garden is, “a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.” Hopefully, we won’t feel the shortages here in Verona, but we can certainly use what we learned from that difficult and interesting year. And in winter we often don’t think it’s a hardship to go without fresh lettuce, kale, or cabbage – we might think nothing is growing at all in our New Jersey soil.

But we can use this time to learn about what DOES grow in winter, how to prepare for the next crop and the next, all year round. Succession planting is just as important (and exciting) in winter gardening as it is in summer, thus preventing shortages of our favorite vegetables appropriate for that season. Hopefully, we can even learn about propagation and other topics that are interesting to all of us using seeds saved from the Community Garden when possible and learning how to keep fresh vegetables thriving in all weather conditions.

In our Club we would like to gather with youth in 5th to 8th grades and their younger or older siblings in the Verona Community Garden, rain or shine, and maybe even snow! And although we have some members who have already signed up, with the majority expressing interest in a Friday afternoon club meeting, if you know someone who might be interested in this Friday afternoon club, please forward this form to them with the return deadline of Friday, November 12.

In 4-H in Essex County we believe “the more the merrier” and always strive to include everyone if possible. We are happy to include youth in younger grades, provided an adult stay with children under third grade for the duration of the meeting.

At our initial gathering after school (3:15 p.m.) on Friday, November 19, we’d like to hand out record books for members to keep their information about each club meeting, discuss the schedule, topics and possible officer positions (scribe, treasurer, liaison, town crier and photographer), and then we will be ready to get started.

If this sounds like fun, please use this link to fill out our interest form. Please spread the word to anyone in town who may be interested and direct any questions to [email protected]

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Jackson Police have issued a statement announcing that a township resident has been charged for his roles in a recent drug deal and remains on the run.

The charges stem from a narcotics investigation run by the Jackson Police Special Enforcement Unit that led to two people being charged: 31-year old Rachel Spock of Somerset and 30-year old Sean Sampson of Jackson.

Detectives were conducting an investigation on November 3 and while surveilling the alleged suspects, they saw them get into a car and head to a Freehold Road address

Police said they conducted a motor vehicle stop and both Sampson and Spock were questioned but then released “after refusing to cooperate with the officers.”

They had to find another way home as the vehicle that was pulled over was seized by police to investigate after an Ocean County Sheriff’s K-9 discovered narcotics.

When they had an authorized warrant in had, detectives searched the vehicle and found 100 wax folds containing heroin, Xanax, crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia.

With the evidence, police then filed complaints against the two suspects.

Spock who is from Somerset but is currently living in Jackson, according to police, has been charged with 3 counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of CDS with the intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia on top of driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a valid driver’s license and possession of CDS while operating a motor vehicle.

Following her arrest and processing at headquarters, Spock was released on a summons.

Sampson has been charged with 3 counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of CDS with the intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia.

However, Detectives have not been able to locate Sampson and as such he’s been entered into the system as a New Jersey Wanted Person.

If you have any information on Sampson’s whereabouts, call Jackson Police at 732-928-1111.

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Essex County Prosecutors are taking over the case of 14-year-old Jashyah Moore who went missing last month after picking up groceries at a New Jersey deli, according to media reports.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to make the announcement – nearly a month after the high school freshman vanished Oct. 14 after leaving Poppie’s Deli, CBS New York reported.

Jashyah Moore/ Poppie’s Deli Store (East Orange Police Department/ Google Maps)

“This occurrence is particularly troubling,” Stephens told reporters, according to the news site. “Our society cannot ignore the fact that a 14-year-old girl, otherwise normal in all respects as far as we can tell, would disappear without a trace on a sunny day on a central thoroughfare in Essex County. This case cries out and demands our attention.”

Stephens said investigators are launching an extensive social media campaign to solicit help from the public in tracking down the young girl. 

The development comes one day after the young girl’s family and friends gathered at the East Orange deli, armed with flashlights and flyers, and launched their own search party.

“I haven’t slept, I haven’t ate,” the teen’s grieving mom, Jamie Moore, told NBC New York. “Imagine if it was your child missing, how would you feel? She’s 14. She has not lived.”

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Authorities have offered a $15,000 reward for information on the teen’s whereabouts.

East Orange Chief Phyllis Bindi previously said that surveillance video from inside the deli on Central Avenue showed the girl enter with an “older male” who paid for her items. Bindi said the man in the footage has cooperated fully with authorities, according to NBC New York.

Jashyah Moore/ Jamie Moore (EOPD Facebook page)

The girl’s mother pleaded with the public for help. 

“I feel like somebody has her against her will,” she said at a press conference Friday, the outlet reported. “You don’t got to tell us who you are, just don’t hurt my baby. Drop her off, drop her off at the police station.”

Yolanda Johnson, who volunteered for Tuesday’s search, said there was a double standard when it came to reporting on missing black teens, comparing the case of Jashyah Moore to Gabby Petito, whose disappearance received wall-to-wall coverage. She was later found dead.

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“We want that exposure for our babies that are going missing in our communities as well,” she told NBC New York. We don’t get that.”

Jashyah Moore is 5’5″, 135 pounds and was last seen wearing khaki pants and a black jacket, according to her mother.

Alfred Fraser passed away on November 2, 2021, at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. He was born on August 3, 1935, to his parents Augustus and Elizabeth Fraser. He was born in Grenada and raised in Trinidad where he received his early education before migrating to the US on September 4, 1971. He resided in Essex County, NJ for several years before relocating to Florida with his wife Monica Fraser. He was an active member of the Port Charlotte First Baptist Church and was also a member of the All Nations Cultural Club, organizing travel and family events. Alfred enjoyed international travel with his wife Monica, and they traveled extensively. He was a self-employed construction worker, specializing in carpentry, masonry, and painting. In his spare time, he enjoyed activities such as fishing and spending time with his grandchildren.
He is predeceased by his parents, Augustus and Elizabeth; his wife Monica; his siblings, Evelyn, Marie, Toby, and Margaret; his daughter Yvonne; his niece Joyce; and his grandchild Kevin.
Alfred leaves to mourn, his sister Agnes; his children Fitzroy, Sandra, Pearlyn, Cleopatra, Hillary, Keisha, Amiee; his nieces Mavis, Linda, Marilyn, Yolanda, and Deborah; his nephews, Terry, Paul, Anthony, Lincoln, Leslie, and Ronald; his grandchildren Shawn, Alvin, Adia, Devon, Ananda; and a host of other relatives.
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As the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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MONTCLAIR, N.J., Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Summit Health, the premier health care network, announced the grand opening of a new 30,000 square-foot multispecialty health care hub in Montclair, New Jersey to provide primary and specialty care for adults and children. Local officials, business leaders, and community members joined a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new outpatient medical offices located at 1 Seymour Street. Summit Health offices occupy the sixth and seventh floors of a new seven-story building that is part of the new Wellmont Arts Plaza development.   

“We are thrilled to build upon our tradition of providing excellent care to Montclair residents and to the Essex County community with our new Montclair hub,” said Summit Health CEO Jeff Alter. “Many of our Montclair-based physicians are familiar faces here in the local community, so we are really building on our roots. The Montclair hub will provide greater patient access to providers from one convenient downtown location.”

“During Summit Health’s time in Montclair, and in all of Essex County, they have done a tremendous job of providing comprehensive multispecialty health care for the entire family. Their impressive new hub at 1 Seymour Street will continue to offer primary care, pediatrics, women’s health services, general surgery and many more specialties under one roof. And it is fitting they are among the first major businesses in the Wellmont Arts District,” said Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill, who presented a special proclamation at the ribbon-cutting event. “I look forward to Summit Health’s continuous contributions to the arts in Montclair, while continuing to provide high-quality health care to the people of our community and the surrounding areas.”

With 20 primary care and specialty physicians, Summit Health’s Montclair hub brings many comprehensive services together at one location. The new offices deliver connected care to patients across 17 co-located specialties, including primary care, pediatrics, dermatology, orthopedics, podiatry, OBGYN, allergy, ENT, general surgery, and more specialties.

The location’s design is minimalistic and modern. Its 63 exam rooms are spacious and designed for efficiency. With a pediatric suite that features both a separate sick visit and newborn waiting room, the Montclair hub provides additional well-being and convenience for families with young children. Other notable service features include pediatric otolaryngology; on-site diagnostic radiological imaging services including mammography, bone density, ultrasound, and general x-ray; on-site lab, providing phlebotomy, (urinalysis), and blood tests; and outpatient procedures, including laryngoscopy and ENT procedures.

Summit Health is among the first commercial tenants to locate in the Wellmont Arts Plaza, adjacent to the Wellmont Theater. A mixed-use destination developed in partnership by Ironstate Development Company and Brookfield Properties, the 2.5-acre development along Bloomfield Avenue at Seymour Street is comprised of rental apartments, office space, retail frontage, and parking. Summit Health’s Montclair hub was designed by Longo Architects & Associates, LLC with interiors by Urban Chalet.

Validated parking for Summit Health patients is available in the West Parking Garage via South Fullerton Avenue, between The Crescent and Plymouth Street. Visitors on foot can access the main entrance via Seymour Street or through the Wellmont Arts Plaza, which intersects Bloomfield Avenue.

Click here for a full list of practice areas in the new Summit Health Montclair location: https://www.summithealth.com/locations/montclair-hub-1-seymour-street.

About Summit Health
Summit Health is a physician-driven, patient-centric network committed to simplifying the complexities of health care and bringing a more connected kind of care. Formed by the 2019 merger between Summit Medical Group, one of the nation’s premier independent physician-governed multispecialty medical groups, and CityMD, the leading urgent care provider in the New York metro area, Summit Health delivers a more intuitive, comprehensive, and responsive care experience for every stage of life and health condition through high-quality primary, specialty, and urgent care. Summit Health has more than 2,000 providers, 9,000 employees and over 200 locations in New Jersey and New York, as well as more than 130 providers and six locations in Central Oregon.

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