A New Jersey man who won a $338 million Powerball jackpot four years ago has been charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a child.
A Newark police officer was arrested for the third time in two years -- this time on an aggravated assault charge stemming from an alleged domestic incident.
The two are among a group of people either charged with, indicted for, convicted of or sentenced in a wide array of crimes that made news across New Jersey in the past week.
Scroll through the gallery above to catch up on any law and order news you might have missed. Here's some of what's there:
- The 47-year-old Passaic County man who won the Powerball jackpot in 2013 is charged with sexually assaulting a girl between 11 and 14 over a three-year period.
- The 48-year-old Newark cop from Manalapan charged with aggravated assault has been suspended without pay. The incident happened in the victim's Newark home, police said.
- A 35-year-old Barnegat man was arrested after he offered an 11-year-old girl a wine cooler and candy to lift her shirt and let him touch her, police said.
- Two Linden men recorded by a friend jumping on cars in a movie theater parking lot have been arrested. A video posted to social media showed the boisterous pair laughing as they went from car to car, leaping and tumbling on vehicles parked at the AMC Aviation 12 theater.
- A Jersey City man with a history of swiping packages from outside homes has struck again, police said. The 48-year-old has been charged with nine counts of theft for stealing packages from different addresses in Bayonne over the past two weeks.
- A Clayton man who was allegedly driving drunk when he caused a fatal accident is back in jail after authorities say he violated terms of his pre-trial release. The 46-year-old visited several liquor stores, in violation of a home detention curfew, and failed to show proof that he was looking for a job, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said.
- A pair of 14-year-old girls tried to break into a house in Secaucus, police said. The girls, one from Lyndhurst and one from Secaucus, are charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
- Seven people have been arrested in a scheme to produce and deposit phony checks made to appear as if they were issued from a Bergen County payroll account, authorities said. More than $50,000 was stolen, the prosecutor's office said. All are charged with theft by deception and check fraud.
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