Threats To Landlord For Renting To Minority Family Results In Guilty Pleas For Two NJ Women

The Monmouth County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office announces:

• On February 11, 2008, Adriane Lynn Tropiano and Angela Marie DeNigris, both 40 and of Manalapan, N.J., entered guilty pleas [...] to one count each of fourth degree Bias Intimidation. [...] The charges stemmed from an investigation into a series of threats that were made against a Manalapan N.J., couple. The investigation was conducted jointly by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and the Manalapan Township Police Department. The investigation was initiated after the Manalapan couple received a series of threatening and racially derogatory telephone calls in June and July of 2007. The couple owns a second house, also located in Manalapan, which they had rented out to a minority family. The threatening telephone calls were made anonymously. However, a local supermarket's security camera captured both suspects on videotape making two of the calls from a pay telephone. Each of these two phone calls included threats of vandalism and arson against the homeowners in retaliation for their actions in renting their house to a minority family.

For more, see Monmouth County Prosecutor's press release: Two Manalapan Women Plead Guilty To Bias Intimidation.

For Monmouth County Prosecutor's press release announcing the indictment, see Two Manalapan Women Charged With Bias Intimidation And Terroristic Threats.

For story update, see Bias Intimidation Charges Resolved Against Two Manalapan Women (Tropiano was sentenced to 2 years of probation. A condition of her probation is that she perform 100 hours of community service. DeNigris was admitted into the Pre-Trial intervention Program. A condition of her acceptance into that program is that she perform 50 hours of community service).