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Busted: Feds Charge NJ Pair With Selling Five Guns, Fentanyl, Coke to CI
Two Newark men were nabbed after illegally selling five guns to an undercover operative working for the government, authorities said.
One of them, Carlo M. De Leon De Jesus, 26, peddled four of the firearms and also sold fentanyl and cocaine, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives conducted three controlled buys from DeJesus from this past July through September, the U.S. attorney said.
The conversations were secretly recorded, he said, as the confidential informant bought:
a Glock 19 pistol for $1,500 in cash;
an E…
Feds: Essex Woman, Accomplices Scam Seniors Out Of $675,000 In Bogus Lottery Scheme
Several elderly victims lost at least $675,000 to a crew of scammers who told them that they’d won the lottery, federal authorities said.
The vulnerable victims “received telephone calls alerting them that they had won large sums of money and various other prizes,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Monday. “The victims were informed that they would have to pay taxes on these winnings.”
The victims, in turn, sent $675,000 in checks to Shanile Lyle, 27, of Orange, and a group of conspirators, he said.
“Lyle deposited these funds into back accounts she controlled and transferred portions of …
