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NJ Hockey Player Son Of Flyers GM Facing Criminal Charges For Wheelchair Toss NJ Hockey Player Son Of Flyers GM Facing Criminal Charges For Wheelchair Toss
NJ Hockey Player Son Of Flyers GM Facing Criminal Charges For Wheelchair Toss The son of Philadelphia Flyers Interim General Manager Danny Briere, Carson Briere, is facing misdemeanor criminal charges in Erie County, PA, after a video captured him pushing a woman's wheelchair down a flight of stairs at a bar. The 23-year-old Mercyhurst University hockey player and Haddonfield, NJ native has been charged with criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit the same — both misdemeanors — as well as a summary charge of disorderly conduct court documents show. I usually don’t post anything serious on my twitter but something happened Saturday night and just can’t stomach …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Irvington Nursing Aide Charged With Sexually Abusing Disabled Teen Patient Irvington Nursing Aide Charged With Sexually Abusing Disabled Teen Patient
Irvington Nursing Aide Charged With Sexually Abusing Disabled Teen Patient A nursing assistant sexually abused a disabled 18-year-old patient at a Rochelle Park medical facility, said police who arrested him. Rodney Mills, 53, of Irvington was arrested after an investigation by Rochelle Park police, assisted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said Tuesday. Mills, a certified nursing assistant who’d been working at the facility a little over a year, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and neglect in caring for the disabled male patient, DePreta said. He remained held Tuesday in the Bergen County Jail…

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by Jerry DeMarco