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ROAD RAGE: NJ Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Deal For Crash That Critically Injured Teens ROAD RAGE: NJ Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Deal For Crash That Critically Injured Teens
Road Rage: NJ Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Deal For Crash That Critically Injured Teens UPDATE: A volunteer firefighter who caused a road-rage crash that nearly killed a group of fellow Bergen County teens – and then inexplicably returned to the scene as a responder – was sentenced to a plea-bargained five years in state prison. Luke G. Stein, 19, apologized to the victims and their families, some of whom addressed the judge emotionally, during a sentencing hearing in Hackensack on Friday, June 30. Lital Aburus said she'd had nine surgeries, including cosmetic operations on her face, neck and arms, along with a broken collarbone. Ariana Grant spoke of laying in a hospital be…
Guatemalan National From NJ Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen, ICE Seeks Custody Guatemalan National From NJ Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen, ICE Seeks Custody
Guatemalan National From NJ Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen, ICE Seeks Custody A Guatemalan national living in Lodi repeatedly sexually assaulted an underage teen, authorities charged. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately issued a detainer, for deportation purposes, after Juan Nimacachi, 39, was arrested and sent to the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday, May 17, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Special Victims Unit zeroed in on Nimacachi after being alerted by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency on Tuesday. Working with Lodi police, the investigators found that Nimacachi -- who works as a car…
Getaway Driver, 21, In North Jersey Drug Murder Gets 30 Years Without Parole Getaway Driver, 21, In North Jersey Drug Murder Gets 30 Years Without Parole
Getaway Driver, 21, In North Jersey Drug Murder Gets 30 Years Without Parole The getaway driver in the cold-blooded killing of a Fairview man during a drug-related apartment robbery was sentenced to 30 years without parole in state prison. David Martinez, 21, of North Bergen watched as three men who were in the apartment when David Duque Soto was shot in June 2019 took guilty pleas rather than risk the consequences of a trial. Martinez let a jury decide his fate and was convicted on March 13 in Hackensack of felony murder, armed robbery, conspiracy and weapons possession. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutors Suzanne Cevasco and Matthew Fitzpatrick presented 16 witn…
Atlantic County Trio Sentenced in Centerfolds Assault Case Atlantic County Trio Sentenced in Centerfolds Assault Case
Atlantic County Trio Sentenced in Centerfolds Assault Case Three Atlantic County residents were sentenced on Friday, March 3 in the Centerfolds assault case, authorities said. Jamaul Timberlake, 31, Garnell Hands, 30, both from Atlantic City, and John Hands, 25, of Pleasantville, were each sentenced for their role in the assault of 19-year-old Irving Mayren-Guzman on Jan. 23, 2022, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said. Timberlake received a four-year New Jersey State Prison term, Garnell Hands a five-year prison term, and John Hands a four-year prison term for the roles they played in the attack. Mayren-Guzman later disappeared. His body …
Killer Gets 50 Years For Stabbing NJ Mom 55 Times, Dumping Body In Local Creek Killer Gets 50 Years For Stabbing NJ Mom 55 Times, Dumping Body In Local Creek
Killer Gets 50 Years For Stabbing NJ Mom 55 Times, Dumping Body In Local Creek A 21-year-old Lodi man who viciously stabbed a Cresskill woman dozens of times in her home before crudely dumping her body in a county park -- with help from the victim’s 14-year-old daughter -- must live into his 60s before he'll taste freedom again. Nicolas Coirazza struck a deal with prosecutors that still resulted in a 50-year state prison sentence on Friday, Feb. 18 for the brutal slaying and desecration of Divna Roasaco in June 2020. Coirazza initially rejected a 45-year plea offer from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and appeared ready to go to trial in Superior Court in Hacke…
Sex Assault On Hotel Housekeeper Leads To Lengthy Prison Sentence For Camden Man Sex Assault On Hotel Housekeeper Leads To Lengthy Prison Sentence For Camden Man
Sex Assault On Hotel Housekeeper Leads To Lengthy Prison Sentence For Camden Man A 35-year-old Camden man was sentenced to 54 years in New Jersey State Prison for the sexual assault of a Claridge Hotel housekeeper, authorities said. In September 2022, following a six-day jury trial, Kye Hardison of Camden was convicted by an Atlantic County jury.  The jury convicted Hardison of sexual assault, burglary and aggravated sexual assault. On the first-degree aggravated sexual assault charge, an ordinary term of imprisonment is between 10 to 20 years, the Atlantic County prosecutor said. However, due to Hardison’s extensive criminal history, and the parti…
NJ Sex Assault Suspect Nabbed With Fingerprint DNA Hears His Sentence NJ Sex Assault Suspect Nabbed With Fingerprint DNA Hears His Sentence
NJ Sex Assault Suspect Nabbed With Fingerprint DNA Hears His Sentence A 60-year-old man from South Jersey was sentenced to 17 years in New Jersey State Prison for the 1996 aggravated sexual assault and 2003 endangerment of two Atlantic County children, authorities said. Brian L. Avis, of Egg Harbor Township, pleaded guilty to the offenses in June. "For more than two decades the victims and their families have waited to know who did this. They may never know why Brian Avis chose them, but today, at a minimum, they have a degree of closure and a measure of justice,” said Chief Assistant Prosecutor John Flammer who represented the State. Detectives from the Ci…
South Jersey Mom Learns Fate In Daughter's Assault That Left Her Paralyzed, Blind: Report South Jersey Mom Learns Fate In Daughter's Assault That Left Her Paralyzed, Blind: Report
South Jersey Mom Learns Fate In Daughter's Assault That Left Her Paralyzed, Blind: Report A 22-year-old mother from Cumberland County has been sentenced to five years in New Jersey State Prison for beating her child so badly that she suffered brain damage.  Elinette S. Muniz, of Millville, was sentenced Friday, June 24 on the aggravated assault charge in the February 2021 incident that left the 4-year-old child fighting for her life on a ventilator, NJ Advance Media reported.  Muniz's boyfriend, Ricardo A. Ferrera, 28, of Vineland — who is not the girl's dad — was also charged, as he apparently told investigators the girl fell from a bunk bed and that injurie…
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…
South Jersey Man, 68, Gets 3 Years For Inappropriate Sexual Conduct With Girl South Jersey Man, 68, Gets 3 Years For Inappropriate Sexual Conduct With Girl
South Jersey Man, 68, Gets 3 Years For Inappropriate Sexual Conduct With Girl A 68-year-old man from South Jersey has been sentenced to three years in state prison for inappropriate sexual conduct with an underage girl, authorities said. Anthony J. Perona, 68, of Mullica Hill in Gloucester County was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in August to endangering the welfare of a child, Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill said. Shill did not release details about the sexual conduct. Perona’s Aug. 2 guilty plea came shortly after a jury trial on several related charges which resulted in a hung jury, Shill said. Perona acknowledged engaging in sexual co…
Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse
Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse UPDATE: A former New Jersey Army major and his wife avoided more time in federal prison Wednesday when they were resentenced for routinely torturing three adopted children by breaking bones, withholding water and force-feeding them hot sauce, among other cruelties. A federal appeals court had rejected two previous sentencings of Carolyn Jackson and John E. Jackson by U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden as too lenient. Hayden, however, said Wednesday that she believed more time behind bars would be "more punishment than is necessary" for abusing the children, all of whom were less than 4 y…
'Sexually Violent Predator' Who Raped Teen Hundreds Of Times Gets 132+ Years In PA Prison 'Sexually Violent Predator' Who Raped Teen Hundreds Of Times Gets 132+ Years In PA Prison
'Sexually Violent Predator' Who Raped Teen Hundreds Of Times Gets 132+ Years In PA Prison A man found guilty of raping a 13-year-old hundreds times has been sentenced, according to the York County District Attorney's office. Donshay Lamar Calhoun, 40, of Lower Windsor Township, has been sentenced for 66.25 to 132.50 years in a Pennsylvania State Correctional Instution. Calhoun was found to be a "Sexually Violent Predator," according the District Attorney's Office. The charges stem from investigation into allegations filed by the victim in 2019. She was 13 and 14 when Calhoun sexually assaulted and raped her, "possibly several hundred times," as the original arrest warrant stat…
Armed Robber From Jersey City Gets 14 Years-Plus In Fed Pen For Pennsylvania Holdup Armed Robber From Jersey City Gets 14 Years-Plus In Fed Pen For Pennsylvania Holdup
Armed Robber From Jersey City Gets 14 Years-Plus In Fed Pen For Pennsylvania Holdup A federal judge in Philadelphia sentenced a New Jersey man to a plea-bargained 14 years and nine months in prison for robbing a Pennsylvania gas station convenience store with a sawed-off rifle. Brandon Garcia, 22, of Jersey City, poked one Allentown Speedway station employee with the gun as he ordered him to “get down!” while demanding cash and Newports during one of the robberies on March 28, 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said. A good Samaritan who’d pulled in for gas saw Garcia all dressed in black with his hood up and holding a gun, so he dialed 911. The citize…