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Trucker Gets 4 Years In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, Near GWB Trucker Gets 4 Years In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, Near GWB
Trucker Gets 4 Years In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, Near GWB A Florida trucker was sentenced to a plea-bargained four years in state prison for fleeing a tractor-trailer crash that killed a 21-year-old Teaneck native on Route 95 in Fort Lee last year. Joel Lasanta, 39, was captured by New Jersey State Police two days after the June 4, 2020 crash, authorities said at the time. Jada Smith had been headed back to Teaneck from Brooklyn with fellow family members in two vehicles when she was involved in another accident in the southbound express lanes of Route 95 shortly before 10:30 p.m. Smith's mom and dad were in a car behind hers coming off the Georg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJSP Captures Florida Driver In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, In Fort Lee NJSP Captures Florida Driver In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, In Fort Lee
Njsp Captures Florida Driver In Hit-Run Death Of Teaneck Woman, 21, In Fort Lee State Police captured the hit-and-run tractor-trailer driver who killed a 21-year-old Teaneck native last week on Route 95 in Fort Lee, authorities said. Joel Lasanta, 37, of Kissimmee, FL, arrested Saturday at the Clara Barton Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike south of Cherry Hill, 115 miles or so from the scene of the crash, they said. Jada Smith was headed back to Teaneck from Brooklyn with fellow family members in two vehicles when she was involved in another crash in the southbound express lanes of Route 95 shortly before 10:30 p.m. June 4. Smith's mom and dad were in a car behi…

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Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others
Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Gets 2½ Years In Federal Pen For Conning IRS, Helping 14 Others A judge in Newark on Thursday sentenced a former Teaneck tax preparer to 2½ years in federal prison for helping himself and 14 clients cheat on their taxes. Sixto Rodriguez, 55, who'd moved to Kissimmee, FL, must serve just about all of the sentence. There's no parole in the federal prison system. He was convicted earlier this year by U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty of dozens of counts of filing the bogus returns following a one-week bench trial in federal court in Newark. At the Teaneck business he named "1-2-3 Taxes," Rodriguez "inflated education credits, charitable don…

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Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Convicted Of Trying To Con IRS, Helping 14 Others Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Convicted Of Trying To Con IRS, Helping 14 Others
Ex-Teaneck Tax Preparer Convicted Of Trying To Con IRS, Helping 14 Others Federal jurors in Newark on Tuesday convicted a former Teaneck tax preparer of helping himself and 14 clients cheat on their taxes. Sixto Rodriguez, 55, was found guilty of all 17 counts of an indictment charging him with three counts of filing false tax returns for himself and 14 counts of helping clients do the same following a one-week trial, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Rodriguez, who now lives in Kissimmee, FL, "inflated education credits, charitable donations, unreimbursed business expenses and rental losses that he knew his clients had not actually incurred," Carpeni…

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Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark
Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark After finding 500 bogus credit and gift cards in his checked luggage, police at Orlando Airport called ahead to their Port Authority colleagues, who arrested a convicted con man as he got off a plane in Newark, authorities said. Robert Smith-Merced, 46, Kissimmee FL, "was unaware that the luggage holding the fraudulent cards was still being held by authorities in Orlando" when he got off the Delta flight around 10 a.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers waiting at the gate found him carrying three fake credit cards and a bogus Connecticut driver's license, …

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by Jerry DeMarco