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Here's the stories you'll be talking about on the New Jersey 101.5 Morning Show on Tuesday:
🔗 NJ Transit wants your commute to run like the World Cup did
⚽NJ Transit moved more than 370,000 World Cup riders during eight matches
⚽CEO Kris Kolluri says World Cup strategies will be used to improve daily commutes
⚽Commuters won't pay if the World Cup transportation creates deficit, Kolluri says
NJ Transit CEO and President Kris Kolluri is very proud of his team for a smooth World Cup and will apply that same effort to the everyday commute.
The agency committed to transporting 40,000 World Cup ticket holders to-and-from Penn Station New York for each game. It's previous largest sports event, Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, was seen as a failure for NJ Transit as over 28,000 fans more fans than expected overwhelmed Seacuacus Junction before the game. Fans had to wait until nearly three hours before leaving MetLife Stadium. Kolluri is confident to "curse" from the game is broken.
"I think the way I think about this is, we've lived with that image of New Jersey Transit for 12 years. The team worked so hard for two plus years to put in place a plan that we can execute in a calm and rational way that would that would frankly show both New Jersey and the world what this underdog team is capable of doing. And that's exactly what we ended up doing," Kolluri told New Jersey 101.5.
NJ Transit moved over 370,000 people to and from the eight matches, the most they've ever moved and the fastest they've ever moved.
🔗 Two children killed in Barnegat Bay boat crash
🚨Two children, ages 7 and 9, died after a motorboat crashed into a buoy
🚨The children were riding with their grandparents on Barneget Bay
🚨The tragedy is the second fatal crash involving a buoy this year
BERKELEY — Two children died in a motorboat crash in Barnegat Bay on Sunday night.
New Jersey State Police Sgt. Caitlin Brennan said that a 7-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl were riding in a 30-foot Tidewater Custom 280 with two adults, Stephen Schneider, 63, of the Bayville section of Berkeley and Laurie Schneider, 64, also from Bayville. Stephen was driving when it struck an Intercoastal Waterway channel marker in the Intercoastal Waterway around 9:09 p.m.
The impact ejected the children from the boat, according to Brennan. The adults got the children out of the water and got them to shore. They were taken to a hospital where they died.
Brennan did not disclosed if life jackets were worn by anyone on board the boat.
🔗 Woman dies fleeing Route 55 traffic stop with 5-year-old in car
🚨A woman fleeing a Route 55 traffic stop in Mantua Township early Monday
🚨A 5-year-old was found walking along the highway and taken to a hospital.
🚨It's the fifth fatal crash on Route 55 this year and the second in the past week.
MANTUA TOWNSHIP — A woman was killed when she tried to flee a traffic stop early Monday morning.
The initial stop was made just before midnight on Route 55 south near Exit 45 (Buck Road). Troopers found out the driver had several warrants out on him and removed him from the car, law enforcement sources told New Jersey 101.5. While a Mantua Township police officer stood with the driver outside the vehicle another officer ordered the woman sitting in the backseat to also get out, according to Gloucester County Prosecutor Andrew Johns.
Instead, the woman, later identified as Holly Hageman, 41, got behind the wheel and sped off with a 5-year-old in the car. The driver was taken to Mantua police headquarters. The identity of the driver and his relationship to the child and Hageman was not disclosed
Hageman was found by a New Jersey State Police trooper about three miles away after she drove into a tree and flipped the car over. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The law enforcement source said the 5-year-old was found walking along the dark highway and taken to a hospital.
🔗 NJ parolee charged in baffling $500K BearCat theft
🚔 Police say a parolee stole a $500,000 NJ Transit armored BearCat before dawn.
➡️ GPS tracking led detectives from Newark to the abandoned vehicle in Irvington.
⚠️ Investigators say facial recognition and a parole officer helped identify the suspect.
NEWARK — A New Jersey man is accused of violating his parole in bombastic fashion.
Christopher Bruton-Frazier, 39, admitted to a costly joyride early Tuesday morning, according to police. The confession was apparently recorded during a police interview. But police said he was first caught on surveillance video inside the NJ Transit Emergency Services Unit headquarters parking garage in Newark.
Investigators say that at 4 a.m., before most people were awake, Bruton-Frazier was stealing a tactical armored Lenco BearCat G3 for a joyride. The $500,000 vehicle is equipped for specialized SWAT emergency responses — and was somehow accessible to a man who had wandered the parking garage for nearly an hour.
It was not a smooth exit, police said. The BearCat struck another truck, a 2022 Ford F-350, and heavily damaged the fencing around the K-9 kennels for a combined $11,000 in damages. He also caused $1,800 in damage to the garage bay door, police said.
Around 5:15 a.m., more than an hour later, an NJ Transit police detective showed up for work. He saw the bay door was open and that the BearCat was missing. Using GPS tracking, police found the vehicle had traveled around five miles to Jersey City, briefly stopped, and then went more than a dozen miles back to Irvington.
The abandoned vehicle was found around 6 a.m. on Harper Avenue in Irvington. It was missing a 7-inch backup camera monitor screen and an 18.5-ounce pepper spray fogger, which together were worth $430. Police said they found both stolen items in Bruton-Frazier's bedroom while executing a search warrant. They also reported finding evidence of heroin use.
🔗 Samsung cuts 739 jobs, Mars lays off 307 as NJ loses major HQs
⚠️ Mars Wrigley and Samsung are separately moving their U.S. headquarters out of New Jersey.
➡️ The moves account for about 1,000 announced layoffs in Englewood Cliffs and Newark.
🔴 Verizon, JPMorgan Chase and The Cannabist also announced additional NJ job cuts in late July.
New Jersey is losing out on U.S. headquarters of two big employers, which means a combined 1,000 layoffs announced in late July.
The grim news that Samsung Electronics America was taking its main office to Texas, where it already has multiple work operations, first broke in June.
Earlier this month, the company’s IT services affiliate, Samsung SDS America, announced layoffs out of the Ridgefield Park location.
Samsung's headquarters move adds hundreds of New Jersey layoffs
Now, the other shoe has dropped —as Samsung announced 739 layoffs out of Englewood Cliffs, effective the end of September.
Around the same time, Mars Wrigley has announced it is closing up its newer U.S. headquarters in Newark — and moving it to join the confectioner and snacking giant’s global headquarters in Chicago.
The Mars Wrigley move means 307 layoffs out of Newark, effective by October.
“Following a comprehensive review of our Mars Snacking North American office footprint, we will be sunsetting the Newark Market Hub for Mars Snacking Associates by December 2027, consistent with our previously communicated move to Chicago,” a company spokesperson said to New Jersey 101.5.
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