Hightstown Man Charged In Connection With Sexual Assault, Home Invasion: Prosecutor

EAST WINDSOR, NJ – A 26-year-old Hightstown man has been charged in connection with a home invasion and sexual assault that occurred on Thursday afternoon in Piscataway, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Captain Michelle Pilch of Piscataway Police said Friday.

On Thursday, at 1:24 p.m., authorities responded to a home in Piscataway after receiving a 911 call reporting an assault. On their arrival police found the victim, an adult female, who had sustained injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment, Ciccone said.

An initial investigation revealed that the woman was sexually assaulted. Further investigation by Det. Sean Morelli of Piscataway Police and Det. Daniela Castro of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victim’s Unit determined that Justin Surofsky, 26, of Hightstown was the assailant.

On Thursday, Surofsky was arrested in East Windsor without incident and charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree criminal attempt-murder, second-degree burglary, third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact, second-degree kidnapping, third-degree criminal restraint, second-degree aggravated assault, and first-degree robbery.

Surofsky presently is lodged at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center pending the results of a pre-trial detention hearing in Superior Court.

The investigation is active and continuing. Anyone with information or surveillance footage is asked to call Detective Morelli of the Piscataway Police Department at (732) 562-2355 or Detective Castro of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3652.

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