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Violent Ex-Con Fugitive Captured In Quiet NJ Neighborhood Thanks To Clever Tactic
A violent ex-con fugitive who was holed up in his girlfriend's home on a quiet Maywood street surrendered Wednesday morning after U.S. Marshals showed up with a Bergen County Regional SWAT team. It took a bit of time -- and some cleverness -- to finally capture Duron Smith, 45, who was wanted for dragging a police officer with his car near his Harrisburg, PA, home during a drug bust earlier this year. U.S. Marshals went to Smith's girlfriend's house in the 200 block of Prospect Avenue armed with a warrant around 7 a.m. May 22, Maywood Police Chief Terence Kenny…
Police & Fire
Update
: Convicted ‘Bling Bishop’ From Bergen Jailed Ahead Of Sentencing
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A convicted con man from Bergen County known as the "Bling Bishop" was jailed on Monday after violating terms of his release before this summer's sentencing, federal authorities said. Federal jurors in lower Manhattan convicted Lamor Whitehead of Paramus two months ago of swindling the elderly mom of a parishioner from New Jersey out of her $90,000 life savings, among other counts. They also found him guilty of using ties to New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an attempt to extort a business owner into loaning him $500,000 and of lying to hide a second cellphone from FBI agents as the…
Police & Fire
Camden Man Gets 70 Years In Fatal Shooting Of Ex-Girlfriend
A Camden man has been sentenced to 70 years in New Jersey State Prison for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend, authorities said. Eric Seddens, 41, was convicted in March of first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the death of 33-year-old Ashley Allen of Sicklerville, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay. Seddens was sentenced on Friday, May 17, she said. Seddens must serve 85% of the sentence before being eligible for parole. On Sept. 29, 2020, Seddens shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child, the prosecutor said. After fatally shooting Al…
Police & Fire
Fugitive Hunters Bear No Responsibility For Accused Killer's Suicide In Newark Park: Grand Jury
UPDATE: A team of fugitive hunters bear no responsibility for the death of a Newark man who shot himself rather than be captured, a grand jury has found. Don Jones, 50, was wanted for a homicide in Union County when members of the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and city police chased him into West Side Park last Aug. 29, 2023. Jones pulled a handgun from his waistband, dashed to an open field and was surrounded by police, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said on Wednesday, May 15. He then dropped to his knees, pointed the firearm at his head and p…
News
'So I Raped You:' NJ Woman's Accused Rapist Captured In France 3 Years Later, Reports Say
Almost three years after a warrant was issued for the arrest of a Pennsylvania college student's accused rapist, he was taken into custody in France, numerous outlets reported on Wednesday, May 14. Ian Thomas Cleary, 31, who apparently has been living in Europe, was taken into custody in Metz a prosecutor told the Associated Press. Cleary was accused of raping Gettysburg College student, Shannon Keeler, a lacrosse player from Moorestown, NJ, at a party in 2013, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. She confronted him via Facebook Messen…
Police & Fire
US Marshals Arrest Pair For Armed Robbery At Dollar General Store: Vineland Police
A pair of fugitives from Cumberland County have been arrested by U.S. Marshals for an armed robbery at a Dollar General store in Vineland, authorities said. One of the suspects resisted arrest and attempted to disarm an officer, they said. Tomas Cesareo and Lionel Z. Arrington, both of Millville, were arrested on Friday, May 3, Vineland police said on Friday, May 10. They were charged with robbery, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm, false imprisonment, conspiracy, resisting arrest and attempt to disarm and officer, police said. The robbery occurred at about 12:30 p.m. on Ap…
Police & Fire
Camden County Man Arrested In Fatal Shooting: Prosecutor
A 21-year-old man from Gloucester Township has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in connection with a fatal shooting last week, authorities said. Hasan Battie was taken into custody on Monday, April 22 in Camden, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay Battie has been charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses, she said. On Tuesday, April 16, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Gloucester Township Police officers were dispatched to a residence in the LaCascata development for a report of a person shot. Police found a male victim later identified as…
Police & Fire
Breyon Goodman Jason Howard Cold Case Arrests
Two men have been charged with murder in connection with a 2008 robbery and fatal beating, authorities said. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri announced the cold case arrests on Monday, April 22 in connection with the death of Leroy Julious of Ewing Township. Breyon Goodman, 36, of Trenton, and Jason Howard, 41, are each charged with murder, felony murder and robbery, they said. Goodman was arrested in Trenton on April 15 by U.S. Marshals. Howard was served his complaints in Rhode Island, where he is incarcerated for an un…
Police & Fire
Teenager Accused Of Critically Injuring Man In Camden County
A teenager has been charged in connection with an assault that left a man in critical condition in Camden County, authorities said. On Saturday, March 23, at approximately 10:40 p.m., Mount Ephraim police were dispatched to the parking lot of a business at 20 West Kings Highway, Mount Ephraim, for an unconscious male. Poliec found the victim, a 46-year-old man from Mount Ephraim, lying on the ground, suffering from an apparent head injury. The victim was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to Camden County Prosecut…
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Horrifying
: Convicted Sex Offender Lured Foreign Woman To NJ To Abuse Her Kids, Feds Say
WARNING: The allegations described in this report are horrific in the extreme. A registered sex offender from Bergen County lured a woman from the other side of the world to the United States so he could sexually abuse her two young children, federal authorities charged. Corey Hipscher, 52, of Lodi first got the woman's 11-year-old daughter to take naked selfies and send them to him after connecting directly with the youngster on social media, the FBI said. Among the horrific images, federal authorities said, is a video of the youngster self-penetrating with the top of a bowling pin. Soon…
News
‘90 Day Fiance’ PA Barber Conviction Withdrawn Due Juror, Witness Interactions: DA
A former Pennsylvania barber who appeared in "90 Day Fiance” and “90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?” who was extradited from Florida over six months after he was caught with fentanyl by US Marshals — has had one of his convictions dismissed due to contact between a juror and witness, the Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack announced on Friday, March 23, 2024. Michael Anthony Baltimore, 44 of Carlisle, PA, had been convicted on Feb. 1, 2024, in a domestic violence case from Jan. 7, 2021, but the charges were dismissed and the case was vacate…
Police & Fire
2 Men Arrested In Fatal Shooting At South Jersey Apartment Complex, 3rd Suspect Still At Large
Two men have been arrested in the slaying of Dashon Lee, 35, in Vineland, authorities said. Lee was fatally shot on March 9 at the Asselta Acres Apartments, according to Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. Jamin Carney, 28, of Millville and Chavez Mills, 26, of Vineland, were both charged on March 14, she said. Carney was charged with murder and conspiracy. Mills was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Mills was arrested that same day while Carney was arrested by U.S. Marshals on Thursday, March 21, Webb-McRae said. Angel A. Aguero, 31, the first alleged shooter to…
Police & Fire
Seen
HIM? Vineland Man Sought In Fatal Parking Lot Shooting: Prosecutor
A 31-year-old man from Vineland is wanted in the shooting death of another man, authorities said. Angel A. Aguero is a fugitive charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses, according to Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. He's considered armed and dangerous, she said. Aguero is wanted for allegedly killing Dashon Lee, 35, also of Vineland, she said. At approximately 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, Vineland police responded to a 911 call at the Asselta Acres Apartments on Axtell Avenue. Police found Lee in a parking lot suffering from apparent gunsh…
Police & Fire
Guilty
: ‘Bling Bishop’ From Bergen Convicted Of Swindling NJ Parishioner's Mom, More
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A flashy Brooklyn bishop who lives in Bergen County – and was infamously robbed at gunpoint during a live-streamed church service – was convicted in lower Manhattan of swindling the elderly mom of a parishioner out of her life savings, among other counts. Lamor Whitehead, 45, promised to put the $90,000 toward buying her a home, federal prosecutors told jurors in the Southern U.S. District of New York who found him guilty of all charges after only three hours of deliberations on Monday, March 11. Instead, the infamous "Bling Bishop" blew the money on BMW payments and luxury purchase…
Police & Fire
Trio Charged In Fatal Trenton Shooting: Prosecutor
Three men have been charged in connection with a fatal shooting last fall in Trenton, authorities said. Leroy Tutt, 37, of Trenton, was killed in the November 2023 shooting, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri. Jerrod Baldwin, 41, of Ewing, and Kellen Dingman, 41, of Ewing, are each charged with first-degree murder, first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and weapons offenses, Onofri said.. Eric Bell, 44, of Trenton, is charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and third-degree hindering apprehension, he said. All three men were ta…
Police & Fire
Fugitive Wanted For Murdering Fellow Out-Of-Stater In NJ Captured In Colombia
The long arm of the law reached 2,400 miles to South America, where authorities arrested a fugitive wanted for shooting a Yonkers resident dead in Englewood late last summer. Joshua Alvarado, 29, of New York City was captured in Medellin last Saturday, Feb. 17, with assistance from U.S. Marshals and the Colombian National Police, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Alvarado is charged with murder, felony murder, armed burglary, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, among other counts, the prosecutor said. Englewood police responding to a 911 call to a residence on Mevan Avenue …
Police & Fire
Ocean County Crack Dealer Found With Guns, Drugs: Police
A Jackson Township man was charged in an investigation into crack cocaine sold in Ocean County, authorities said. Justin Love, 25, was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 14 after police searched a home and his vehicle, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer announced on Thursday, Feb. 15. His arrest came after a two-month-long investigation. U.S. Marshals, state police, and several township police departments began surveillance on Love in December 2023. Investigators said Love was using a home on Deer Path in Lakewood to store and sell crack cocaine. Lakewood Township police searched the …
Police & Fire
US Marshals Arrest Camden Man In Fatal Shooting: Prosecutor
A 26-year-old Camden man has been arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of another man in November 2023, authorities said. Lisandro Gomez was charged on Feb. 9 with first-degree murder in the death of Victor Lebron, 26, of Sicklerville, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. Gomez was arrested by U.S. Marshals. He was sent to the Camden County Correctional Facility pending a pretrial detention hearing. On Nov. 9, 2023, at approximately 12:28 p.m., Camden County Police officers responded to a shooting on the 800 block of North 8th Street in C…
Police & Fire
Fugitive Hunted In 'Bling Bishop' Robbery Killed By US Marshals In NJ Hotel Shootout
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦: A fugitive wanted for robbing a "bling" bishop from Bergen County during an online service was killed by U.S. Marshals Wednesday afternoon during a shootout at a Route 1 hotel, federal sources confirmed. Ex-con Shamar Leggette was the subject of a manhunt following the infamous 2022 gunpoint robbery of "Bling Bishop" Lamor Whitehead of Paramus during a live-streamed church service in Brooklyn. Leggette, 41, of Brooklyn, also shot a man in Providence, RI last September, authorities there said. Members of the U.S. States Marshals Service NY/NJ Regional Task Force, assisting th…
Police & Fire
Philly Ex-Con Forced Captive Girls Into Prostitution At NJ Hotels: Indictment
An ex-con who was captured after a 15-year-old victim escaped from a South Jersey hotel room was indicted on a host of charges that include human trafficking, promoting prostitution and sexually assaulting minors, authorities announced on Thursday. Nieem Johnson, 40, whose last known address was in Philadelphia, was arrested in Atlantic City last Aug. 31 following a months-long state investigation, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. A second victim was rescued during the arrest, Platkin said in a Jan. 18 release. “The allegations in the indictment – holding two victims in a…
Police & Fire
2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina
On the same day that U.S. Marshals announced a reward for help capturing an accused killer from Jersey City who’d been on the run for 2½ years, they nabbed him in South Carolina. Tybear Miles, a 28-year-old ex-con, remained held in the Spartanburg County Detention Center pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and illegal weapons possession charges in the June 5, 2021 shooting death of Ahmad McPherson in Jersey City. Spartanburg police, working with the U.S. Marshals Service’s New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, nabbed Miles on Wednesday, Jan. 10, Hudson County …
Police & Fire
Bloods Leader, Passaic County Man Busted with 28 Lbs Of Coke, 500 Lbs Of Pot At Teterboro: FBI
A high-ranking member of the Bloods with longstanding mob ties and a Passaic County man with a criminal history of his own were seized when they tried to fly to London out of Teterboro Airport with 28 pounds of cocaine and 500 pounds of pot on a private jet, federal authorities said. Leonardo Petrosillo, 45, of West Milford, and Edwin Spears, 49, of Newark brought three companions -- Spears’s girlfriend, an exotic dancer from Maryland and a friend of hers -- as a front for a dozen drug-stuffed bags of luggage, they said. The plane was to fly it all to John Lennon Airport in London, accordin…
Police & Fire
Escaped Inmate Gino Hagenkotter Found Dead In Philadelphia Warehouse: Police
The body of an escaped Philadelphia inmate was found in a warehouse, officials said. Gino Hagenkotter's body was found in a warehouse on the 1100 block of E. Venango Street around 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, city police said. Hagenkotter, 34, an inmate at Riverside Correctional Facility, escaped while working a detail assignment in the orchard behind Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Facility (PICC) on Nov. 30. "A preliminary investigation of the scene revealed a broken air vent and a pushed-out fan, suggesting forced entry," police said. "Additionally, a ladder was found lying n…
Police & Fire
US Marshals Arrest Porch Pirate Who Allegedly Rammed South Jersey Officer With Vehicle
U.S. Marshals arrested a porch pirate who rammed a South Jersey police officer with her vehicle while fleeing from him, authorities said. Ebony E. Gomez of Jacksonville, FL, was arrested on Monday, Dec. 11 in Monroe Township and turned over to Gloucester Township police. Gomez was wanted on various charges including second-degree eluding, endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated assault, and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Gomez fled police in a white Dodge Journey on Jarvis Road in the Sicklerville section of Gloucester Township around 1:40 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, loca…
Police & Fire
US Marshals Arrest Camden Fugitive In Fatal Shooting: Prosecutor
A Camden fugitive has been arrested for the fatal shooting of another man in October, authorities said. Xavier Rivera, 23, was charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses in the fatal shooting of Jesus Manuel Ortiz-Hernandez, 18, of Camden City, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez. On Oct. 18, at approximately 4:15 p.m., Camden County Police responded to the 2700 block of Hayes Avenue for a ShotSpotter activation. Plice found a male victim at 22nd Street and River Road who was suffering f…
Police & Fire
Gotcha
! Manhunt Ends In Out-Of-State Capture Of Accused NJ Child Molester
An accused child molester from Bergen County who remained on the run for two years was captured by US Marshals in South Carolina, authorities said. Cesar de Jesus Perez Acosta, 37, of River Vale is accused of touching the pre-teen victim's breasts and vagina in October 2021, court records show. River Vale police obtained a warrant for Perez Acosta’s arrest following interviews with those present at the time of the alleged assault, a criminal complaint filed in Superior Court in Hackensack says. A DNA swab of the girl's breast provided physical evidence, the complaint says without elaborat…
Police & Fire
Paterson Pair Convicted In Ambush Killing Of Rival Gang Member From Newark
UPDATE: The mastermind behind the cold-blooded killing of a 21-year-old rival gang member from Newark during an ambush in Paterson was convicted of first-degree murder and one of his cronies of aggravated manslaughter on Friday. Jurors in Superior Court in Paterson needed only a day to reach guilty verdicts on Oct. 13 against Silk City residents Jaquan Thomas, 33, and Ismael Leon, 21, for gunning down Jose Figueroa. Authorities said the slaying was a “coordinated attack involving multiple shooters in multiple locations.” Thomas sent members of his gang to the area of Totowa and Redwood ave…
Events
US Marshals Auction Off NJ YouTuber's Luxury Car Collection, Jewelry
The beloved car collection of a New Jersey YouTube star who made his living while showcasing his hot rods is up for grabs, following his conviction for an elaborate piracy scheme. Baltimore will be the place to be for gearheads and car collectors on Friday, Oct. 13, when the US Marshals auction off the multi-million dollar car collection of "influencer" Bill Omar Carrasquillo, of Swedesboro. Carrasquillo, also known as "Omi In A Hell Cat, was sentenced to 66 months in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $30 million dollars earlier this month for operating a massive scheme involving the …
Police & Fire
Danelo Cavalcante Captured (
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Danelo Cavalcante is in custody. Danelo Cavalcante has been taken into custody after a two-week manhunt in Chester County, PA, Pennsylvania State Police announced Wednesday, Sept. 13. The 34-year-old convicted killer from Brazil was found hiding under foliage within a search perimeter in northern Chester County, 6abc reports. Details in the capture were expected to be announced at a 9:30 a.m. press conference. A search perimeter was announced Tuesday, Sept. 12, along Routes 23 and 100, Fairview and Nantmeal roads, and Iron Bridge and County Park roads. Residents were urged to secure buil…
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Shirtless Danelo Cavalcante Last Spotted Carrying .22 Rifle, Flashlight
The reward in the search for Danelo Cavalcante has been increased to $25,000. The 34-year-old escaped killer, who is also wanted for murder in Brazil, is armed after stealing a pistol from a Chester County home Monday, Sept. 11, authorities said. Police say he was last spotted in South Coventry Township, without a shirt, carrying a stolen .22 rifle and flashlight. Residents should call 911 immediately if he is spotted. For general tips or info, call (717) 562-2987. The US Marshals, Pennsylvania State Police, and detectives from across Chester County are assisting in the search, which cl…
Police & Fire
Two More Danelo Cavalcante Sightings Confirmed, Search Throughout Longwood Gardens Continues
Two Danelo Cavalcante sightings were confirmed on Friday, Sept. 8, Pennsylvania State Police said. UPDATE: Danelo Cavalcante Captured On Neighborhood Porch Sporting New Look, And Now He Has A Car, Police Say Trooper James T. Grothey did not say where exactly the 34-year-old escaped killer was seen — only that the sightings were within the search area. Meanwhile, a group of police officers armed with long guns had gathered in an area of the northwest corner in the Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square that afternoon, 6abc reports. No breakthroughs in the manhunt had been announ…
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