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NJ Senior Turns Tables On 'Grandchild In Trouble' Scammers NJ Senior Turns Tables On 'Grandchild In Trouble' Scammers
NJ Senior Turns Tables On 'Grandchild In Trouble' Scammers Not everyone falls for the "grandchild in trouble" scam. A Fair Lawn senior citizen who’d been targeted by scammers quickly figured out what was what and immediately called police. Detective Chris O’Shaughnessy responded to the Barry Place home after someone claiming to be a lawyer called a resident there and asked for $11,000 bail to get the would-be victim's granddaughter out of jail, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. A woman was waiting outside to pick up the money, the caller said. O’Shaughnessy found the woman, 21-year-old Destiny Gonzalez of New York, NY, “whose story would keep changing dur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Officer Recently Suspended For Sexual Harassment Was Among 2 Who Sued Chief: Report NJ Officer Recently Suspended For Sexual Harassment Was Among 2 Who Sued Chief: Report
NJ Officer Recently Suspended For Sexual Harassment Was Among 2 Who Sued Chief: Report A Central Jersey police officer who filed a discrimination lawsuit against his department's chief had been suspended less than two months earlier on sexual harassment allegations, NJ Advance Media reported, citing court documents. Officer Alan Barboiu was suspended without pay for 45 days, after a surveillance video showed him inappropriately touching a dispatcher, the outlet says citing Piscataway's township spokesman Gene Wilk. In a suit filed a suit last January, Barbou accuses Chief Thomas Mosier of mocking his accent, and creating a fake paper trail to have him fire…

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by Jon Craig