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LITTLE EGG HARBOR MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER

El fiscal del condado de Ocean, Bradley D.. Billhimer anunció que en septiembre 30, 2021, Kendrick Coley, 29, de Little Egg Harbor, pled guilty to Aggravated Manslaughter in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:11-4a(1), ante el Honorable Guy P. ryan, J.S.C., relative to the stabbing death of Richard Pone during the evening hours of May 16, 2018 in Little Egg Harbor. At the time of his sentencing on December 3, 2021, the State will recommend a term of 20 años Prisión Estatal de Nueva Jersey, sujeto a los términos de la Ley de No Salida Temprana, NJSA. 2C:43-7.2.

En mayo 16, 2018, aproximadamente a 8:15 pm., Officers from the Little Egg Harbor Police Department responded to a 911 call in reference to a stabbing incident that had taken place at a residence on Maplewood Drive. Upon their arrival, Officers located Mr. Pone in an upstairs bedroom with multiple stab wounds; he was pronounced deceased at the scene at approximately 8:40 p.m. A subsequent investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit and Little Egg Harbor Police Department Detective Bureau determined that Coley had stabbed the victim multiple times after the two had engaged in a physical altercation at the residence. Coley was apprehended at the scene and taken into custody without incident. He has been lodged in the Ocean County Jail since the date of his arrest on May 16, 2018.

Prosecutor Billhimer commends the diligent efforts of Chief Trial Attorney Michael Weatherstone and Assistant Prosecutor Kimberly Carr who handled the case on behalf of the State, as well as the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Unidad de Delitos de Alta Tecnología de la Oficina del Fiscal del Condado de Ocean, Little Egg Harbor Police Department Detective Bureau, Departamento de policía de Little Egg Harbor, Tuckerton Borough Police Department, y la Unidad de Investigación de la Escena del Crimen de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Ocean, por sus esfuerzos de colaboración en relación con esta investigación, resulting in Coley’s apprehension, Declaración de culpabilidad, y pronto su sentencia de prisión estatal.