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Motel 6, Red Roof Inn Ignored ‘Obvious Signs’ Of Teen Sex Trafficking, Federal Suits Allege
A New Jersey woman has filed two lawsuits in New Jersey federal court alleging that Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 turned a blind eye while she was beaten, raped, and sold for sex as a teenager.
In court documents, the alleged victim Jane Doe claims that she was trafficked by Stanton Krogulski, a man she met in May 2014, when she was 17 years old, grieving her mother’s death, and facing homelessness.
One suit filed July 9 by Hach, Rose, Schirripa, and Cheverie LLP alleges that Jane Doe was lured to Motel 6 on Route 73 North in Maple Shade, where Krogulski — who was killed in Philadelphia in …
Shipwreck Diver, Attorney Dies In Offshore Expedition Year After Reversing Murder Conviction
Joe Mazraani, a New Jersey shipwreck diver and criminal defense attorney who famously reversed an innocent man's murder conviction, died in a diving-related incident on Tuesday, July 29, his company confirmed.
Mazraani, co-founder of Atlantic Wreck Salvage, passed away during a deep-sea dive roughly 200 miles offshore, on the eastern edge of Georges Bank, according to a statement released Friday, Aug. 1 by the team aboard the D/V Tenacious, the Point Pleasant-based dive vessel he led for more than a decade.
This weekend, the crew of D/V Tenacious recovered one of SS Andrea Doria’s port …
ROTC Cadet, 21, Dies During Fort Knox Training: 'Dedicated, Promising Leader'
A 21-year-old Army cadet from New Jersey died during a land navigation exercise at Fort Knox, officials from the US Army confirmed.
Cadet Neil Edara, of Ridgewood (Bergen County), became unresponsive on Thursday, July 24, while attending Cadet Summer Training with the 9th Regiment, Advanced Camp.
He was airlifted to the University of Louisville, where he was later pronounced dead.
Edara was a student at Rutgers University and had joined ROTC in September 2021, officials said.
“Cadet Edara was one of the most dedicated and promising young leaders I’ve had the privilege to know,” Lt. …
