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Paterson Jewelry Store Robbery Part Of Multi-State Crime Spree Involving DC Rapper: Feds Paterson Jewelry Store Robbery Part Of Multi-State Crime Spree Involving DC Rapper: Feds
Paterson Jewelry Store Robbery Part Of Multi-State Crime Spree Involving DC Rapper: Feds Three masked men who robbed a Paterson jewelry store of more than $1 million worth of merchandise at gunpoint last year were part of a violent East Coast crime ring that included a Washington, DC-based rapper, federal authorities said Wednesday. Trevor Wright – aka “Taliban Glizzy” – was among 16 defendants named in an indictment unsealed by federal authorities in the nation’s capital on Aug. 30. Mohammad Sheik had only just opened the Paradise Jewelry Store at the corner of Main Street and Delaware Avenue in Paterson several weeks earlier when the place was robbed last fall. It was one o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
GOTCHA! Bergen Man With Rap Sheet Arrested In Hudson Armed Robbery Spree, Prosecutor Says GOTCHA! Bergen Man With Rap Sheet Arrested In Hudson Armed Robbery Spree, Prosecutor Says
Gotcha! Bergen Man With Rap Sheet Arrested In Hudson Armed Robbery Spree, Prosecutor Says A Hackensack man who in 2016 led a wild police pursuit in Jersey City was charged in May 2022 for a string of armed robberies across Hudson County, authorities announced. Joel Krecz, 35, set out the evening of Friday, April 29 holding up five stores in Jersey City, Secaucus, Union City and Hoboken, and didn't stop until the end of the following day, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Krecz has been charged with multiple counts of robbery and various weapons and theft, Suarez said. He was accused in the following incidents, according to Suarez: The robbery of a store o…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Convicted Armed Robber Reindicted For DWI Crash That Killed Rowan Student Convicted Armed Robber Reindicted For DWI Crash That Killed Rowan Student
Convicted Armed Robber Reindicted For DWI Crash That Killed Rowan Student A convicted felon serving federal prison time for a string of armed robberies in Connecticut has been indicted, again -- this time in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Rowan University senior nine years ago, NJ Advance Media reported. The DWI case has taken many twists and turns: Derrick D. Gilliam, 35, won an appeal of his homicide conviction last January on the grounds that police took an unwarranted draw of his blood at the hospital after the fatal crash, the outlet said. Matthew Uhl, 22, of Little Egg Harbor, was just two weeks away from college graduation when he was allegedly stru…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
8 Arrested For Armed Carjackings, Heroin; 5 Illegal Guns Seized In Newark 8 Arrested For Armed Carjackings, Heroin; 5 Illegal Guns Seized In Newark
8 Arrested For Armed Carjackings, Heroin; 5 Illegal Guns Seized In Newark Multiple people were arrested for armed robberies, carjackings and weapon possession, and five illegal handguns were seized as part of a violence reduction initiative last weekend in Newark, police said. “We are fully committed to reducing violence on our streets and this weekend’s results shows that our Violence Reduction Initiative is fully underway,” Newark Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said.  “I commend our officers for their vigilance in recovering these illegal weapons as each recovered weapon is equivalent to a life saved.” James Marrow, 36, of East Orange, and Limmary Or…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
‘In Cold Blood’: Pair Charged In Cold-Case Murder Of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay ‘In Cold Blood’: Pair Charged In Cold-Case Murder Of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay
‘In Cold Blood’: Pair Charged In Cold-Case Murder Of Run-dmc’s Jam Master Jay Two men have been charged in the 2002 drug-related killing of hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, federal authorities announced Monday. Karl “Little D” Jordan Jr., 36, executed Jason Mizell with a gunshot to the head “in cold blood” in the band’s studio in Jamaica, Queens, Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme of the Eastern District of New York said Monday. With Jordan, DuCharme said, was Ronald “Tinard” Washington, a 56-year-old ex-con who’s currently serving a 17-year prison sentence string of armed robberies in New York City and on Long Island. The pair from Hollis, Queens went the…

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by Jerry DeMarco