Four people were charged with kidnapping and murder of Regina Baker, a 29-year-old Jersey city mother of five, Essex County prosecutor Carolyn Murray and Newark Police director Samuel Demaio announced this week. Additionally, two other suspects were charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit a kidnapping. They are Dabia Younger, 19, of Newark and Francheska DePena, 30, of Montclair. Younger’s bail was set at $250,000. Bail for DePena was set at $300,000.
Those charged with murder are Omar Martin, 23, of Newark. Karon Adams, 23, of Irvington, Damon Zengotita, 36, of Hillside and Michelle Paden, 37, of Newark. All four were also charged with conspiracy to commit murder, felony murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and weapons offenses. Bail for all four of the defendants charged with murder was set at $1 million.
According to the office of county prosecutor, on June 19, Baker’s body was found inside a vacant townhouse on South 15th Street in Newark. She died from multiple gun shot wounds. She was killed shortly after being abducted in Jersey City and brought to Newark.












