Crime & Safety

Inmates Charged With Damaging MCCI Televisions

Damage to each television estimated at $350.

A pair of Freehold residents who were already serving time in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution are facing more charges following a recent incident at the county jail.

Melvin Morales, 28, and Danny Hernandez, 41, are facing criminal mischief charges after they are alleged to have punched some of the televisions in a housing unit and proceeding to pull them off the wall. The damage to each of the televisions on Oct. 8 was estimated at around $350.

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