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Pair Convicted Of Kidnapping Teen From Philly, Holding Him In NJ Apartment Pair Convicted Of Kidnapping Teen From Philly, Holding Him In NJ Apartment
Pair Convicted Of Kidnapping Teen From Philly, Holding Him In NJ Apartment A Leonia man and an accomplice from California were convicted of kidnapping a teenager from Philadelphia and bringing him to Bergen County, where the ringleader of their group was shot and killed during a daring and dramatic rescue by the FBI. Eduardo Castelan-Prado, 39, of Leonia, and Jose Ochoa, 32, of Moreno Valley, CA, and their unidentified partner snatched the 17-year-old victim at gunpoint from outside the restaurant where he worked last June 14, apparently to convince his father to pay a drug debt of hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities said. The men brought the boy to a ga…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Here's How FBI Nailed Woman Accused Of Torching Philly Police Cars Here's How FBI Nailed Woman Accused Of Torching Philly Police Cars
Here's How FBI Nailed Woman Accused Of Torching Philly Police Cars Have you heard how FBI agents identified an agitator accused of torching two Philadelphia police cars during a riot last month? Good "new"-fashioned police work, you could say. Among the evidence FBI agents collected was news footage of the May 30 riot, as well as 500 or so photos taken by an amateur photographer. The photos included images of a woman hurling a flaming piece of a barricade into a marked police SUV parked outside Philadelphia City Hall. The woman was wearing flame-retardant gloves, protective goggles and a blue shirt that said: "KEEP THE IMMIGRANTS, DEPORT THE RACISTS." S…

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by Jerry DeMarco