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Feds: Flier From DR Tries Smuggling 4½ Pounds Of Coke Into Newark Feds: Flier From DR Tries Smuggling 4½ Pounds Of Coke Into Newark
Feds: Flier From DR Tries Smuggling 4½ Pounds Of Coke Into Newark A traveler flew to Newark Airport from the Dominican Republic with 4½ pounds of cocaine hidden in his clothes, authorities said. Screeners nabbed Leandre Kemont Jefferson, 23, of Denver, after he arrived in Newark from Puerta Playa on Friday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Jefferson had two kilos of cocaine “concealed inside of 12 vacuum packed bags, which were themselves wrapped in foil, and which was further concealed inside of clothing,” Carpenito said. Jefferson was scheduled for a video-conferenced first appearance Monday afternoon before a U.S. magistrate judge in Newark. Carpe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes
Feds Charge Globe-Trotting Stem Cell Surgeon From Hackensack With Pocketing Payroll Taxes A world-traveling orthopedic surgeon from Hackensack who boasts of spearheading stem cell research worldwide failed to pay employees’ payroll taxes to the IRS over five separate years and used it for other purposes, a federal grand jury charged. An 11-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges that Brian Mehling, 54, failed to collect, account for or deliver payroll taxes for: one quarter in 2014; three quarters in 2015; three quarters in 2016: two quarters in 2017; one quarter in 2018. The indictment also charges him with failing to report a foreign bank account ho…

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by Jerry DeMarco