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Career Criminal From Connecticut, 73, Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Jersey City Politico Career Criminal From Connecticut, 73, Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Jersey City Politico
Career Criminal From Connecticut, 73, Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Jersey City Politico A hardened ex-con from Connecticut admitted that he and a longtime criminal pal from Philadelphia stabbed a political consultant to death and then torched his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire attack. George Bratsenis, 73, of Monroe, CT said he and his partner were paid to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics. Bratsenis and the other killer, Bomani Africa, 61, were hired by onetime political operative Sean Caddle, who’d been an aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Man Convinced By Ex-Con To Rob Bank Gets 92 Months In Federal Prison NJ Man Convinced By Ex-Con To Rob Bank Gets 92 Months In Federal Prison
NJ Man Convinced By Ex-Con To Rob Bank Gets 92 Months In Federal Prison A Camden man was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for his role in a holdup spree by a serial bank robber. Laque Hunter, 37, was recruited to rob the Ocean First Bank in Collingswood in July 2018 by Anthony L. Livingston, 50, also of Camden. Livingston helped with a demand note and even drove Hunter to the bank, authorities said. The two then split the proceeds. Livington had only just been released from federal prison less than two weeks earlier after serving 18 years for robbing eight South Jersey banks in 2000 and 2001. A day after he was freed, Livingston robbed a PNC Bank…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Maryland Inmate Attempts Daring Escape In Bathroom, Fights Cops: Police Maryland Inmate Attempts Daring Escape In Bathroom, Fights Cops: Police
Maryland Inmate Attempts Daring Escape In Bathroom, Fights Cops: Police A Montgomery County inmate tried to fight his way out of custody inside of a hospital bathroom, according to police.  Steven Ray Beitzel, 31, feigned an illness at Holy Cross Hospital and was escorted to a bathroom by police where he began to assault the deputies when his restraints  were taken off on Jan. 25, Montgomery County Police said. Beitzel even tried to get ahold of a deputy's firearm, according to officials.  The officers involved sustained minor injuries while taking Beitzel back into custody, they were treated and released at the hospital. Beitzel is being held …

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by Joe Gomez
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Feds: Hit Man From Philly Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire For NJ Political Operative Feds: Hit Man From Philly Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire For NJ Political Operative
Feds: Hit Man From Philly Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire For NJ Political Operative A Philadelphia resident admitted Wednesday that he was one of the two hit men paid by a onetime New Jersey political operative to kill a former associate. Bomani Africa, 61, who has a criminal history that includes convictions for robbery and drug-related crime, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder for hire via videoconference with a federal judge in Newark, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced. People immediately began wondering who the hired killers were after Sean Caddle, 44, admitted on Tuesday that he paid them to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of forme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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10K Reward Offered In Bethesda Bank Robbery 10K Reward Offered In Bethesda Bank Robbery
10K Reward Offered In Bethesda Bank Robbery Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a bank robbery suspect in Bethesda, and are offering $10,000 for any tips leading to an arrest. On Dec. 27, at 1:46 p.m. Montgomery County Police responded to a Wells Fargo bank in the 4900 block of Elm Street on a report of a robbery. Investigators say a suspect entered the bank and gave the teller a handwritten note demanding money and threatening them. The teller handed over the undisclosed amount of money and the suspect fled the scene with the cash. No one was injured and the suspect was not armed during the robbery. Surveilla…

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by Joe Gomez
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Montgomery County Bank Robber Hops Counter, Forces Tellers Into Vault: Police Montgomery County Bank Robber Hops Counter, Forces Tellers Into Vault: Police
Montgomery County Bank Robber Hops Counter, Forces Tellers Into Vault: Police Police in Montgomery County are looking for a bank robbery suspect who hopped a counter and sent tellers fleeing. The robbery happened around noon at a BB&T Bank in the 19600 block of Fisher Avenue on Dec. 14 in Poolesville. The suspect announced the robbery by jumping over the counter, kicking down the plexiglass partition, and demanding cash from the tellers, Montgomery police say. The tellers then fled into the vault and locked themselves inside, after leaving cash on the counter which the suspect stole and fled with. The robbery suspect is described as a male of an unknown race,…

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by Joe Gomez
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4 Banks, 2 Days: Robbery Spree Probed In MoCo, Prince George's 4 Banks, 2 Days: Robbery Spree Probed In MoCo, Prince George's
4 Banks, 2 Days: Robbery Spree Probed In MoCo, Prince George's There have been a rash of bank robberies in Maryland with four banks targeted within a matter of two days in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, according to FOX 5 DC.  In a bank robbery that happened on Dec. 20 out of Prince George's County police arrested two suspects. Meanwhile, suspects were still at large in the case of two bank robberies out of Montgomery County, both occurred on Dec. 21. In one of those incidents, at the M&T Bank on Flower Hill Way in Gaithersburg, a man brought in a bag with a gun and demanded cash. He was handed the money, but it had a dye pack …

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by Joe Gomez