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Massive Fire Burns Through Morris County Home Massive Fire Burns Through Morris County Home
Massive Fire Burns Through Morris County Home A massive house fire raged for hours in Jefferson Township as firefighters battled the blaze on Tuesday night, authorities say.  First responders were called to a home on Vassar Road in Newfoundland just after 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 for a reported structure fire, county officials said.  On arrival, firemen saw the home "fully engulfed in flames," but found that the building had been safely evacuated. Multiple agencies across Morris and Passaic counties took "several hours" to extinguish the flames, authorities added.  The cause of the fire remains under investigation by Jeffer…

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by Mac Bullock
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Group Of Distressed Boaters Rescued From Lake Hopatcong, Police Say Group Of Distressed Boaters Rescued From Lake Hopatcong, Police Say
Group Of Distressed Boaters Rescued From Lake Hopatcong, Police Say Several distressed boaters were rescued from Lake Hopatcong, authorities said. One adult in a trio of boaters aboard a pontoon vessel jumped into the water in the Great Cove section of the lake near Espanong Road on Saturday, July 2, Jefferson Township Police Capt. Robert Bush said in a release on Wednesday, July 6. The adult quickly went into distress, prompting a second boater to enter the water in a rescue attempt, police said. The second adult became fatigued and also went into distress, causing the third adult aboard the pontoon boat to jump in the water with an inflatable device. Wh…

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by Valerie Musson
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Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Gets 8 Years For Molesting Morris County Girl, 3rd Case In 5 Years Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Gets 8 Years For Molesting Morris County Girl, 3rd Case In 5 Years
Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Gets 8 Years For Molesting Morris County Girl, 3rd Case In 5 Years The onetime owner of a defunct martial arts school must spend more than 6½ years in prison before he'll be eligible for parole for molesting an 11-year-old girl in Morris County, the third such case that he’d been involved in over a five-year span. Jurors in Morristown last December found Richard Perry, 49,  guilty of touching the girl on her breasts and vagina during an October 2016 sleepover at his home in the Oak Ridge section of Jefferson Township. The girl immediately told her aunt, who called police, prosecutors said. Two months after his October 2016 arrest, Perry was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson Gang Takes Another Hit: Feds Charge Member Of ‘230 Boys’ With Overdose Death Paterson Gang Takes Another Hit: Feds Charge Member Of ‘230 Boys’ With Overdose Death
Paterson Gang Takes Another Hit: Feds Charge Member Of ‘230 Boys’ With Overdose Death The dominoes continued to fall for Paterson’s 230 Boys street gang when a reputed member was charged federally with selling the heroin and fentanyl dose that led to a user’s death. A grand jury indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark also charges Wyzier Peterson, 22, with two additional sales of heroin and fentanyl, as well as with conspiring to distribute both drugs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday. Peterson was among 17 reputed 230 Boys members charged in a coordinated heroin, fentanyl and cocaine trafficking case assembled last September by a strike force comprise…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Morris Jurors Convict Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Of Molesting Girl, Third Case In 5 Years Morris Jurors Convict Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Of Molesting Girl, Third Case In 5 Years
Morris Jurors Convict Ex-Martial Arts School Owner Of Molesting Girl, Third Case In 5 Years Jurors in Morristown convicted the former owner of a defunct martial arts school on Friday of molesting an 11-year-old girl – the third such case that he’d been involved in over a five-year span. Richard Perry, 48, was ordered held in the Morris County Correctional Facility pending a Jan. 17 sentencing after jurors found him guilty of sexual assault and child endangerment. The Jamaican-born Perry, who is not a U.S. citizen, will have to serve 85% of his sentence under the No Early Release Act, must register under Megan’s Law and remain under parole supervision for life – after which he most…

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by Jerry DeMarco