Michael Huggins To Remain In Jail

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MAYS LANDING — A Superior Court judge ordered an 18-year-old murder suspect who'd escaped from Harborfields juvenile detention center last week to remain in jail until trial.

Huggins, 18, previously was charged as a juvenile in the 2016 killing of Davonte Lee in Bridgeton. He was the last of the four escapees to be captured after they broke out of the Harborfields facility shortly after midnight Nov. 15. Henow faces new charges as an adult.

“The defendant has shown himself to be a violent person that places the community at risk,” said Superior Court Judge Bernard Delury said. “Detention is more than warranted – it is required.”

 Assistant Prosecutor Marisa McGarvey said during the hearing that it was later learned the four juveniles also unlawfully entered a residence in Egg Harbor City and took property and a weapon with them.

 Huggins appeared in court handcuffed, wearing a black and white striped jumpsuit and orange sneakers. He kept his chin down for most of the appearance.

His right eye, which appeared blackened in a Friday court appearance, still appeared to be cut and bruised in court. His attorney, James Gerrow Jr., of Sitzler and Sitzler, said he understood from State Police the injury was from resisting arrest when he was taken into custody.

Gerrow said he believed the weapon Huggins obtained was thrown out of a window before police encountered him, and that he wasn’t armed at the time of arrest.

Gerrow said he was looking to obtain body cameras and video evidence of the arrest to verify how the injury took place.

 

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