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Newton Police Help Bust Arkansas Man Who Scammed More Than $100K From Local, National Victims
Newton police played a major role in the investigation that led to the arrest of an Arkansas man who scammed more than $100,000 from at least seven victims nationwide — including one woman in Sussex County. Police in Newton received a report that a local woman had been contacted by a man who said that he was in possession of all of her personal and financial information on Thursday, August 6, authorities said in a release. The victim stated that the man threatened to exploit her information unless she sent $9,000 in cash to an address in Wisconsin, police said. Newton Patrolman Steven Shaw…
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Feds: Jersey Shore Man Busted With Child Porn Collection
Federal Homeland Security agents on Wednesday arrested a Jersey Shore man who they said collected child pornography. Agents began investigating Joseph J. Punderson, 31, of Island Heights after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Tracing emails and social media accounts, they learned that Punderson “received and possessed images and videos of child sexual abuse downloaded from the Internet,” Carpenito said. U.S. Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. Bongiovanni ordered Punderson held without bail on charges of recei…
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Feds: Elizabeth Dealer Faces Lengthy Prison Stretch For Trafficking Fentanyl
An Elizabeth man admitted trafficking nearly a pound of fentanyl as part of a criminal enterprise that federal authorities said moved the deadly drug by the kilo. Jhon Rodriguez-Acosta, 34, told a federal judge via teleconference that he and an accomplice went to a 7-Eleven parking lot in Elizabeth on Feb. 13, 2019 to collect payment for the fentanyl, which he’d sold to another co-conspirator. Local authorities arrested Rodriguez-Acosta nearly a year earlier after they said they caught him dealing in Bergen County and elsewhere. SEE: Bergen Detectives Seize 4½ Pounds Of Raw Heroin In Raid …
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Feds: Paterson Man Got Girl, 11, To Share Nude Photos, Posted Child Sex-Assault Video
A Paterson man who posted a graphic video of a child being sexually assaulted convinced an 11-year-old girl to send him naked photos, said federal Homeland Security agents who arrested him. Jose Minaya, 24, was scheduled for a first federal court appearance via teleconference Thursday afternoon on charges of producing and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Minaya “used a web-based application to engage an 11-year-old child in a sexually explicit conversation online [and] ultimately instructed the child to take sexually explicit photographs and send them to h…
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ATM Skimming Mastermind Who Victimized 4,350 NJ, NY Bank Customers Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen
The mastermind of an ATM skimming ring that targeted customers at banks in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison. Bogdan Rusu, 39, a Romanian national living in Howard Beach, Queens will serve the sentence handed down in U.S. District Court in Newark concurrently with a 65-month sentence given to him last June by a federal judge in Massachusetts. Rusu struck plea deals with the government in exchange for leniency in both cases. He'll have to serve the entire terms because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Rusu admitted in…
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Former Morris Teacher/Camp Counselor Gets 15 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Porn
A former teacher and counselor from Morris County must serve the next 15 years in federal prison for directing live sex abuse videos of young children and getting a boy to send him naked photos that he shared with another. The sentence handed down Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark is part of a deal struck with the government by Colin M. Skeele, 33, of Florham Park, who pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in exchange for a more lenient sentence than he’d have received if convicted at a trial. Skeele, who’d worked at a boys’ summer camp in Hardwick and in parochial schools in…
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Bomb-Making Materials Found At Clark Home, Authorities Say
A Clark man is in custody after he called authorities to his home, where they found a cache of weapons and bomb-making materials, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. Robert J. Wills, 52, called 911 around 10 a.m. Monday morning and said a police presence would be needed at a State Street home because someone planned to commit an act of violence there, the prosecutor's office said. Wills was not home when Clark police responded but they did find 12 long guns, three handguns, ammunition and fireworks. Also found were chemicals and materials that could be used to mak…
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Man Who Tried To Smuggle Foreigners Into US Via Newark Airport Sentenced
A man from India will serve just over a year in prison for attempting to sneak foreign-born nationals into the United States in exchange for hefty cash payments, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security learned that Bhavin Patel, 39, was trying to smuggle Indians and citizens of other countries into the U.S. by way of Thailand. From there, the people were to be flown to Newark Liberty International Airport. An undercover agent posing as a smuggle began to meet with Patel in Thailand beginning in October 2013. On three o…
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Accused Gunman In Cold-Case Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Arriving At Newark Airport From DR
A gunman who shot and killed a Paterson man on a city street four years ago before fleeing to the Dominican Republic was captured after he got off a flight at Newark Airport, authorities said. Ubaldo Nunez, 27, was quickly seized by members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the gate on Sunday, they said. Nunez gunned down 31-year-old Francisco Maldonado on East 19th Street in March 2015 and then fled the country, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. Maldonado, also known as Jose R. Cabrera, underwent lengthy …
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Newark Mayor Calls Trump ICE Raids ‘Outrageous,’ ‘Racist’
UPDATE: President Trump said Saturday afternoon he was delaying the controversial action, The New York Times reported. Original article publisged Saturday morning is below: Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark said Friday that a group representing the mayors of more than 30 communities -- including the state’s largest cities -- opposes a controversial series of raids planned for Sunday morning targeting undocumented immigrants. “We are appalled by the heavy-handed tactics being used by President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their plan for pre-dawn raids on Sunday, Jun…
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Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn
The North Jersey founder of a nature tour company operating from the Jersey Shore north to Poughkeepsie and southern Connecticut was arrested by federal Homeland Security agents on charges of trafficking child porn. Vaughn Tiedeman, 46, of Living Adventure Tours, was ordered held without bail by a federal judge in Newark Monday afternoon on a charge of distributing child pornography. Between July 2018 and January 2019, Tiedeman, of West Milford, “distributed at least 50 videos and 100 images depicting the sexual abuse of children via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network,” U.S. Attorney Craig…
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Fugitive Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Passaic Girl Captured In Puerto Rico
A fugitive accused of sexually assaulting a Passaic girl when she was between 5 and 7 years old was captured in Puerto Rico and returned to face prosecution in Passaic County, authorities said Friday. Miguel Medina, 53, of Bloomfield, was originally charged with aggravated sexual assault and several counts of child endangerment last October. When he knew authorities were on to him, he fled the state, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said. “Medina sexually assaulted and showed pornography to a female child when she was between the ages of five and seven years old from 2005 through 2…
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