The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 19

Suspect tied to sixth death THE COURIER-NEWSWeclnesday. June 8, 1 983 B-7 and the region Employment down and a man, whose bodies were found in communities near the Jersey Shore. One had disappeared from the Asbury Park boardwalk last Labor Day. Biegenwald, 42, of Asbury Park, who is in Trenton State Prison, has been charged with the Labor Day murder of Anna Olesiewicz, 18, of Camden. Lehrer alleged that Biegenwald lured her to his car and shot her because he "wanted to see someone die." Lehrer said he would seek indictments in the other crimes.

The prosecutor said he had evidence that Biegenwald shot Petrone in the head in June 1978 while the two were target shooting. FREEHOLD (AP) Convicted killer Richard F. Biegenwald, already a suspect in five murders since he was released from prison two years ago, was implicated yesterday in a 1978 murder. Monmouth County Prosecutor Alexander D. Lehrer announced that authorities are "95 percent sure" that a body found three weeks ago in a rural game preserve in Jackson Township is that of ex-convict John P.

Petrone. Two months ago, authorities found the bodies of two young women in a shallow grave behind the house of Biegenwald's mother in Staten Island in New York City. The prosecutor also linked him to the deaths of two other young women Petrone would have been 62 last month. Petrone had an extensive criminal record including convictions for robbery and forgery in the 1960s. Lehrer said authorities did not know whether Petrone and Biegenwald met in prison.

Biegenwald was paroled after serving about 17 years of a life sentence for the 1958 murder of a Union City delicatessen owner. Biegenwald, then 18, announced a holdup and shot the man after he turned over the cash register receipts, authorities said. Biegenwald was freed in 1977. In 1980, he was taken back in custody for parole violation and was paroled again in 1981. JOHN P.

PETRONE believed discovered returned to work. Hiring in residential building, heavy construction, and special building trades was less than seasonally expected "during a rain-soaked April," Bodman said. But he said construction employment should be improving in the months ahead because of increases in contracts and building permits. Gene Herman, a spokesman for the Department of Labor, said the latest federal unemployment rate for New Jersey which was released May 6, was 6.8 percent, down from 7.4 percent during the previous month. Since July of 1981, there has been a total decline in non-farm employment in New-Jersey of 26,300 jobs with 72,000 jobs lost in manufacturing and 45,700 added in non-manufacturing, Herman said.

TRENTON (AP). Employment in the state dipped in April to its lowest point in 2Vz years, largely due to rain that put a damper on the construction industry, according to a non-farm job assessment by the state Department of Labor. Overall, non-farm jobs dropped between March and April by more than 2,500 to a level of 3,076,000, the lowest since December 1980, Labor Commissioner Roger Bodman announced yesterday. The commissioner blamed bad weather for the drop of 3,500 construction jobs to 103,200. But, at the same time, Bodman noted that the state's settlement with NJ Transit workers helped boost the job statistics considerably as 2,500 employees of the mass transit agency Moped owners must have licenses Monday Ill Brief y7 S- TRENTON (AP) Starting Monday, purchasers of mopeds must have registrations and license plates for their motorized bicycles, state officials warn.

And Motor Vehicles Director Clifford Snedeker is reminding out-of-state moped owners who come to New Jersey that they must bring their helmets to avoid fines of up to $100. Snedeker said there are no exemptions to the safety requirement that moped operators wear helmets. But the director said the out-of-state moped enthusiasts don't have to worry about registering or obtaining a license for their vehicles. In New Jersey, purchasers of new mopeds must have a registration and the title of ownership recorded with the state, he said. Current moped owners will have a 90-day period to secure the license and have the vehicles registered and titled.

The regulations are part of a new law spurred by a sharp increase in fatal accidents involving the popular motorized bicycles. In April, the state began requiring moped drivers to wear helmets. "Ten individuals died in moped accidents last year and only one of them was wearing a helmet," Snedeker said in a statement. "Of the 10 deaths, seven were the direct result of head injuries." The first registration fee for mopeds will be $8 and will cover an 11-month period, Snedeker said. The annual fee in following years will be $5, he said.

When the moped is registered, the state will issue a single license plate for display at the rear of the vehicle. A sticker will be attached to the license plate to indicate the expiration date of the registration, said Snedeker. Before securing registration, a moped owner must provide proof of insurance coverage and a valid moped or basic driver's license. Insurance for mopeds must provide up to $15,000 for bodily injury, up to $30,000 for death and up to $5,000 for property damage. H.

Arthur Smith III, spokesman for the Division of Motor said the registration of mopeds may be done at any state motor vehicle station. MOPED $2M cleanup approved WASHINGTON The House overwhelmingly approved a spending bill yesterday that would provide $2 million for the removal of slightly radioactive thorium from a May-wood, N.J., neighborhood. The same measure would also provide more than $60 million for water projects throughout New Jersey. The money was included in the $14.2 billion Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill for 1984, which includes money for the Department of Energy and for water projects built by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Interior Department and other agencies. The measure was approved by a 379-39 vote and now must go to the Senate.

Last week, Rep. Robert G. Tor-ricelli, said he had received agreement from Stepan Chemical Co. it would spend up to $3 million to remove the thorium if the federal government supplied the first $2 A Passaic County grand jury indicted Philip Solimene 24, of Paterson and Patrick Reardon, 24, of Lodi in connection with the death of Victor Mastrantuono, 61, of Paterson, authorities said. Solimene and Reardon were charged based on information gathered during a two-year investigation of an auto theft and burglary ring oallegedly perating in five northern New Jersey counties, said Passaic County Prosecutor Joseph Falcone.

The body of Daniel Depner of Pompton, previously indicted for murder in the case, was found last month in West Milford, authorities said. Falcone said Depner was believed to be a principal in the auto theft ring. Mastrantuono's body was found in his brother's Paterson home Sept. 16, 1981 beside a 300-pound safe which had been forced open, police said. )lls.

jtTi Associated Press Photo Division of Motor Vehicles publicist Arthur Smith shows the new license plate that must be displayed on all mopeds in the state on Monday. 4 lawmen nabbed in cargo theft 'sting' Pump action halted Impaled boy dies sidine, 51, of Rutherford; Nicholas Palumbo, 46, of Bayonne; truck driver Nunzio DeFazio, 51, of Secaucus; Conrail policeman Santiago Jusino, 34, of Belleville; and William Byrne, 47, of Jersey City, an identification officer in the Hudson County Sheriff's Department. Other named were: Jersey City policeman Walter Osterlo, 51; Eugene O'Brien, 38, Keansburg; Billy Busy, 37, of Jersey City; Peter McLaughlin, 42, of Beachwood; Christopher Costa, 50, of Jersey City; Donald Smith, 46, of Spring Lake; David Bodnar, 32, of Edison; Michael Sielski, 35, of Jersey City; Susan Gundling, 31, of Jersey City; and Martin Deevy, 69 of Jersey City. Authorities said Kilbride, Busy, Deevy and Grundy, remained at large early today. loansharking attempt and hiding au-tos, including a Ferrari, so that owners could collect on phony insurance claims that the vehicles were stolen.

Indictments said that the group simply had a truck cab drive into the yard, hook up to a trailer and drive off. The defendants were brought to a state police barracks here for processing before facing arraignment in Superior Court in Jersey City, said Kobus. One indictment charged Kilbride with conspiring to commit loansharking by offering Aramini money at 156 percent a year interest. In addition to Kilbride, the owner of Kilbride's Pub in Jersey City, others named in indictments were: Jersey City Detective John Con- Lt. Joseph Kobus, state police spokesman.

The prosecutor's offices of Hudson, Monmouth, Essex and Bergen Counties assisted. State police bought a Kearny warehouse and outfitted it with video and voice recorders as part of the "sting" to get evidence on the suspects, Kobus said. The FBI also participated in the operation, he added. Recorded conversations of suspects and a state police undercover agent, Detective Patrick Aramini, were played for the grand jury. The jury charged that 15 of the defendants stole or assisted in the theft of $800,000 in clothing, tin, stereos, cameras and other merchandise including a Ferrari sports car from Conrail yards in Kearny from April to December 1982, Kobus said.

The other three suspects were charged with crimes that included a TOTOWA (AP) Authorities had rounded up 14 of 18 suspects, including four law enforcement officers, indicted following a year-long undercover "sting" operation investigating the theft of $1.5 million in Conrail cargo, officials said early today. Still at large was an an alleged principal in the cargo theft scheme, Gerald Kilbride, 52, of Middletown Township, officials said. State Attorney General Irwin I. Kimmelman said two Jersey City policemen, a Conrail policeman and an identification officer in the Hudson County sheriff's department were named in eight indictments issued in Trenton by a state grand jury against the suspects. Fourteen teams of about 40 state troopers were dispatched early yesterday to arrest the defendants, said DOVER TOWNSHIP A 14-year-old boy died from injuries he sustained after he became impaled on a fence post while playing ball in a neighbor's backyard here, officials say.

John Raymond Burnell died Sunday, three days before he was to graduate from the eighth grade at the Toms River Intermediate School East, said Michael Mastronardy, a spokesman for the Ocean County medical examiner's office. Alice Burnell said John, her only child, slipped while about to climb a fence to retrieve a ball. Mrs. Burnell said the youngster apparently stumbled after stepping onto a plastic slide in front of a 4-foot-high chain link fence. Burnell became impaled on a fence stake, which traveled through his chest and pierced his heart, causing massive internal bleeding, Mrs.

Burnell said. PHILADELPHIA A Commonwealth Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Neshaminy Water Resources Authority and Bucks County from taking action to abandon a water pumping station project at Point Pleasant. President Judge James Crumlish issued the order yesterday at the request of two Montgomery County water authorities, one in North Wales and the other in North Penn, which were to receive some of the 95 million gallons of water that the station was to divert daily from the Delaware River. 2 charged in death NEWARK Men from Paterson and Lodi have been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a 61-year-old man for which another man, found dead last month, had previously been charged, authorities say. SAVE-WELL LIQUORS SAVE-WELL Inglenook Navalle Southern Comfort 750 ml.

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