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Thursday night, a South Jersey community in Burlington County is expected to attend the Lumberton Township Committee meeting and demand that their mayor resign. The outcry from the community has been heard after Mayor Gina Laplaca was arrested and charged with DUI and other related offenses. NBC10’s Shiara Arias reports.

Months after the mayor of Lumberton, New Jersey, was arrested after allegedly driving drunk with her son in the car , a grand jury indicted her on charges of not protecting her child, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.

Police in Lumberton had responded to the home of Lumberton Mayor Gina LaPlaca after a concerned resident called 9-1-1 to report that she was driving erratically on March 17, 2025.

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