New Jersey’s Monmouth Junction. Authorities said a 21-year-old Rutgers University student has been charged in relation to over a dozen obscene and criminal sexual contact instances that were reported in South Brunswick and on the Rutgers University campus in Piscataway during the previous year.
Jihad Goines, of Monmouth Junction, was arrested by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office on charges of performing indecent activities inside the Dickson Carr Library on Rutgers University’s Busch Campus and at the Royal Oaks Apartment Complex in South Brunswick.
Investigators said they first heard of obscene activity around the residential complex in November 2023. The Rutgers University Police Department opened an investigation after receiving reports of similar instances at the university library between October and December 2024.
Goines was eventually connected to the South Brunswick cases after being named as a suspect in the library events. Goines was arrested without incident on December 5 and charged with seven charges of lewdness, a disorderly people crime, and three counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Law enforcement officials say the investigation is still ongoing and that anyone with more information should call the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Ashley Blackwell at 732-745-3465, the South Brunswick Police Department’s Officer Jamal Benbow at 732-329-4646, or the Rutgers University Police Department’s Detective Edwin Tejada at 732-932-7211.
After months of investigations into incidences both on and off campus, a Rutgers student is facing several counts.
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