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Suspects Stole $3.6M From Victim In ID Theft Scam: Police Suspects Stole $3.6M From Victim In ID Theft Scam: Police
Suspects Stole $3.6M From Victim In ID Theft Scam: Police A pair of Egg Harbor Township residents have been charged with defrauding a victim out of more than $3.6 million in ID theft transactions. Following a year-long investigation into fraud, theft by deception, bad checks, and conspiracy to commit these crimes, Wei Song and Botao Liu were arrested by the Bensalem Township Police Department, in Pennsylvania, Galloway police said. They were subsequently extradited and were being held in the Atlantic County Justice Facility. The investigation revealed that Song defrauded one victim of over $600,000 cash, wrote millions of dollars in bad checks, a…

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by Jon Craig
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Witnesses Of Atlantic County Dad's Deadly Shooting Sought By Police Witnesses Of Atlantic County Dad's Deadly Shooting Sought By Police
Witnesses Of Atlantic County Dad's Deadly Shooting Sought By Police Authorities in Atlantic County are looking to speak with anyone who may have witnessed the deadly Nov. 13 shooting of a Somers Point dad. The photo below depicts a possible witness to Ivan Smith's killing, the county prosecutor's office said in a press statement.  SEEN HIM? Authorities want to talk to this possible witness to a fatal shooting.Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office Police responding to a shot spotter alert and 911 call found the 41-year-old father laying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound on North Main Street around 9:20 a.m., authorities said.  He was pronounced dead at …

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by Jon Craig
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Authorities Seek Help Tracking Atlantic City Fugitive Wanted In Fatal Shooting Authorities Seek Help Tracking Atlantic City Fugitive Wanted In Fatal Shooting
Authorities Seek Help Tracking Atlantic City Fugitive Wanted In Fatal Shooting Authorities seek the public's help locating a fugitive wanted in connection with a fatal shooting last month. The 45-year-old fugitive has been charged with first-degree murder, according to Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill. Umar Abdullah, also known as James Collins or James Coger III – is nicknamed “Munchie” or “O.”  At 4:04 a.m. on Oct. 10, Atlantic City Police received a 9-1-1 call to respond to 28 S. Georgia Avenue.  When police arrived, 35-year-old Mark Wright was found to have been the victim of a shooting, Shill said. Wright was pronounced dead at the sc…

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by Jon Craig
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Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen A former basketball star who led a Paterson-to-Atlantic-City drug ring that peddled heroin connected to 48 heroin overdose deaths and 84 other ODs was sentenced Monday to 135 months in federal prison. Khalif Toombs, 31, of Egg Harbor Township previously admitted directing an operation that regularly brought heroin by the kilo from Paterson into Atlantic City. FBI agents used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users
Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users Six reputed members of a drug network trafficked heroin from Paterson to Atlantic City that was connected to 48 overdose deaths and 84 other ODs, federal authorities charged. The FBI used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” “Pandora,” and “9½,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Camden names six reputed gang members accused of conspiring to move more than a kil…

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by Jerry DeMarco