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FBI: Predator Lured Out-Of-State Escorts To NJ, Then Beat, Raped Them FBI: Predator Lured Out-Of-State Escorts To NJ, Then Beat, Raped Them
FBI: Predator Lured Out-Of-State Escorts To NJ, Then Beat, Raped Them For more than four years, a Middlesex County man lured out-of-state escorts to New Jersey with promises of tens of thousands of dollars for sex – then slapped, choked, raped and threatened them, federal authorities charged. Jose Torres, 42, was captured in Boston on Valentine’s Day and brought to New Jersey this week to face federal counts of coercion and enticement, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Torres met the women through websites for online escorts and on Backpage.com beginning in May 2015, an FBI complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Promising big money, he “p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ
Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ A former active-duty member of the U.S. Navy was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for illegally trafficking guns to a New Jersey couple – including one that ended up being fired on the street hours later. Tesora Amanda Cortes Trejorojas, 24, admitted in federal court in Newark last February that she bought the semi-automatic weapons at a store near her Norfolk, VA home for Azia Sinclair and Shyheim “Shy” Tyson of Newark. She entered the plea in exchange for the more lenient sentence -- all of which she must serve because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The so…

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by Jerry DeMarco