Crime & Safety
Bail Drops to $500K for Mt. Olive Woman Accused of Killing Ex-Cop
Defendant's attorney sought reduction to quarter-million dollars for March slaying.
Virginia Vertetis has been lodged in jail since March 3 when police arrested her in connection with the shooting death of a man at her Mt. Olive home.
On Friday, Superior Court Judge Mary Gibbons Whipple in Morristown lowered Vertetis’s bail from $700,000 to $500,000, according to nj.com.
The 52-year-old woman’s public defender asked for a reduction to $250,000, but was denied because the killing is “a very serious crime,” Whipple said in the nj.com report.
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Vertetis was arrested at her home in the Flanders section of Mt. Olive Township just before 10 p.m. when police found Patrick Gilhuley, 51, of Staten Island dead from gunshot wounds. Gilhuley was a retired police officer from Staten Island.
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