This report is based on information received from the Prosecutor’s Office.
COURT HOUSE – Cape May County Prosecutor Robert Taylor announced that on June 23, Jermaine Mills, 39, from Rio Grande, was sentenced to an aggregate of 17 years in New Jersey State Prison for the crimes of robbery, first degree, and two counts of witness tampering, third degree.
Mills was sentenced by Judge Michael Donohue of the Cape May County Superior Court. According to Taylor, 85 percent of Mills’ 17-year sentence must be served prior to him being paroled.
On Sept. 21, 2014, Lower Township Police were dispatched to Villas for the report of an armed robbery. The victim informed police that he was held up at gun point and his property was forcefully taken from him. Mills was identified as one of those responsible for the armed robbery. Through the course of the investigation it was learned that Mills tampered with witnesses in an attempt to have them change their stories.
Prosecutor Taylor recognizes the investigative work by detectives from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and the Lower Township Police Department along with Assistant Prosecutor Alex Settle which resulted in Mills’ sentence.
