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Toms River Man Sentenced For Dealing Heroin Throughout Ocean County Toms River Man Sentenced For Dealing Heroin Throughout Ocean County
Toms River Man Sentenced For Dealing Heroin Throughout Ocean County A Toms River man was sentenced after admitting to selling heroin throughout Ocean County, authorities said. Zachary Lockwood, 25, was sentenced on Friday, Apr. 5 to 10 years in prison, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer announced in a news release. He'll be eligible for parole after five years. Lockwood pleaded guilty to possession of one-half ounce or more of heroin with intent to distribute, being a certain person not to possess a weapon, and resisting arrest on Monday, Feb. 12. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated eluding charge from a second incident. Toms River…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
Toms River Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty Toms River Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty
Toms River Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty A Toms River man admitted to selling heroin throughout Ocean County, authorities said. Zachary Lockwood, 25, pleaded guilty on Monday, Feb. 12, to possession of one-half ounce or more of heroin with intent to distribute, being a certain person not to possess a weapon, and resisting arrest, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer announced. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated eluding charge from a second incident. Toms River police started investigating Lockwood in July 2023 as someone distributing heroin in Ocean County. Police were granted search warrants for his home a…

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by Chris Spiker
Business
Kitchen Products Sold Nationwide Recalled Due To Injury Concerns, Reports Of 'Severe Cuts' Kitchen Products Sold Nationwide Recalled Due To Injury Concerns, Reports Of 'Severe Cuts'
Kitchen Products Sold Nationwide Recalled Due To Injury Concerns, Reports Of 'Severe Cuts' Nearly 500,000 juicers are being recalled after reports of hundreds of malfunctions reported by consumers, some of which included injuries that required emergency treatment, according to federal officials.  The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Empower Brands is recalling approximately 469,000 Power XL Self-Cleaning Juicers due to both laceration and ingestion hazards. According to the CPSC, the juicers can rupture during use, striking users and posing a laceration hazard. They've also been known to leave small particle shavings in the juice, posing an ad…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
Do Not Use These COVID-19 At-Home Tests Due To Bacteria Concerns: FDA Do Not Use These COVID-19 At-Home Tests Due To Bacteria Concerns: FDA
Do Not Use These Covid-19 At-Home Tests Due To Bacteria Concerns: FDA Americans have been advised by federal officials to stop using and dispose of specific COVID-19 at-home tests that could have potentially harmful bacteria inside the kits. SD Biosensor, Inc. announced on Friday, May 5, that the company is requesting that consumers stop using “Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests” due to contaminants found in the tube with liquid inside, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The tube with the liquidFDA The affected tests can be identified by the lot number on the outer packaging (see below) and should be discarded in the trash. The liquid should n…

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by Zak Failla
News
Hardcore NJ Trio Ram NYPD Cruiser After $70,000 Heists From Soho Boutique: TikTok Video Hardcore NJ Trio Ram NYPD Cruiser After $70,000 Heists From Soho Boutique: TikTok Video
Hardcore NJ Trio Ram Nypd Cruiser After $70,000 Heists From Soho Boutique: TikTok Video A hardcore criminal trio from Newark who’d stolen $70,000 worth of designer attire from a Manhattan boutique rammed an NYPD cruiser during an attempted getaway, authorities said. Video posted on TikTok shows several NYPD officers slamming the Dodge Charger with batons while seizing all three just outside the Holland Tunnel. Janavia Marable, 29, Brianna Grier, 27, and Jahlil Pamplin, 29, had just fled Kirna Zabete, a high-end boutique in nearby Soho, after snatching armfuls of garments from racks and display cases, the NYPD said. It was the second time in two months that the veteran crew v…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Uber Driver, Mom Of Four Found Dead In PA Uber Driver, Mom Of Four Found Dead In PA
Uber Driver, Mom Of Four Found Dead In PA A mother of four who did not return from her work as an Uber driver was found dead in Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to the police. Christina “Christi” Marto Spicuzza, 38, of Turtle Creek, had been missing since Thursday, Feb. 10. Two days later, the Monroeville police were called to the 500 block of Rosecrest Drive in Allegheny County around noon for a body discovery — later identified as that of Spicuzza's, authorities said in an updated release. The victim's family had reported her as missing on Friday after she “failed to return home after taking several Uber fares on Thursday ni…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Teen Carjackers Drag Driver From Her SUV, Paterson Police Nab Both After Chase Into Clifton Teen Carjackers Drag Driver From Her SUV, Paterson Police Nab Both After Chase Into Clifton
Teen Carjackers Drag Driver From Her SUV, Paterson Police Nab Both After Chase Into Clifton A driver was dragged from her SUV by two carjackers -- one 17, the other 13 -- who were both nabbed by Paterson police after the stolen vehicle caused a chain-reaction crash in Clifton, authorities said. Officer Eddy Pichardo began pursuing the Honda CRV with Connecticut license plates soon after the teens opened the victim's door and yanked her out at the Conoco quick-stop gas station on Main Street around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Pichardo followed the CRV into Clifton, where the 17-year-old driver suddenly pulled into the parking lot of the CVS at Mai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Police: Fleeing Shoplifter Struck On Busy NJ Highway Police: Fleeing Shoplifter Struck On Busy NJ Highway
Police: Fleeing Shoplifter Struck On Busy NJ Highway A fleeing shoplifter was struck and injured running across Route 4 in River Edge, authorities said. Jaime Rojas, a 35-year-old repeat offender from Bloomfield, was standing at the bus shelter on the westbound side of the highway around 5:45 p.m. Thursday when police investigating a shoplifting at the nearby CVS spotted him, River Edge Police Chief Michael Walker said. Seeing them, he bolted across the highway, the chief said. Rojas made it across the westbound side and over the divider but was struck on the eastbound side, he said. The driver told police she saw him tried but couldn't sto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
'The Opposite Of Dangerous: Pharmacy Tech Slain In Paterson Avoided Guns, Gangs 'The Opposite Of Dangerous: Pharmacy Tech Slain In Paterson Avoided Guns, Gangs
'The Opposite Of Dangerous: Pharmacy Tech Slain In Paterson Avoided Guns, Gangs Small minds will often wonder when someone is shot and killed in an inner city whether that person somehow had something to do with his or her own death. A chorus of voices rose this weekend, however, after word spread that the man known as “Rei”  -- Ravel Trejo -- had been gunned down outside a city shopping center. Trejo, 32, worked as a pharmacy tech at the CVS on Union Boulevard in Totowa. He was "a cool dude, a down-to-earth person,” wrote friend Mel Taylor. “He wasn’t with that goofy s**t.” “He wasn’t with that s**t at all,” Destinee Corina added. “That’s what makes me so mad!” Na…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PD Called After NJ Man Shouts At Asian Customer That Chinese Caused COVID PD Called After NJ Man Shouts At Asian Customer That Chinese Caused COVID
PD Called After NJ Man Shouts At Asian Customer That Chinese Caused COVID A 70-year-old Glen Rock man straddled the line between free speech and harassment, police said, when he stood behind an Asian-American woman at a CVS checkout counter and shouted that the Chinese Communist Party "caused COVID." "That’s why we’re wearing these masks,” the man reportedly yelled, bringing police to the Rock Road store. He yelled this several times, said the woman, who “felt threatened [because] she was the only Asian individual in the immediate area,” Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A witness corroborated her account, he added. Interviewed by police, the man said that he …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Florida Fugitive Scammed Elderly Jersey Shore 'Uncle' SEEN HIM? Florida Fugitive Scammed Elderly Jersey Shore 'Uncle'
Seen HIM? Florida Fugitive Scammed Elderly Jersey Shore 'Uncle' Authorities are trying to locate a 49-year-old Florida man suspected in a costly telephone scam. Juan C. Piedrahita, 49, of Hollywood, Florida, has been charged with theft by deception for trying to defraud an elderly Jersey Shore resident, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Barnegat Township Police Chief Keith A. Germain. Piedrahita ;remained at large late Tuesday, authorities said.  Piedrahita's charges are the result of a joint investigation last month by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Economic Crimes Unit and Barnegat Township P…

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by Jon Craig
News
COVID-19: Pennsylvania Health Officials Roll Out New Vaccine Phases Amid Statewide Delay COVID-19: Pennsylvania Health Officials Roll Out New Vaccine Phases Amid Statewide Delay
Covid-19: Pennsylvania Health Officials Roll Out New Vaccine Phases Amid Statewide Delay Pennsylvania health officials announced a clearer, multi-phase path toward statewide vaccine distribution Friday, in the midst of a statewide inoculation delay. "There is a delay of about 24 hours through the hospitals, and both through Walgreens and CVS, our partners in the long-term care mission by up to 72 hours," Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said.  "We expect that more vaccinations have been given, but that's the data we have right now." The largest concern for the state's health department was when the shipment of the second dose of vaccinations w…

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by Nicole Acosta
News
'Raise Your Sleeves': Six Vaccine Mega Sites Coming Next Month To New Jersey 'Raise Your Sleeves': Six Vaccine Mega Sites Coming Next Month To New Jersey
'Raise Your Sleeves': Six Vaccine Mega Sites Coming Next Month To New Jersey Six vaccine "mega sites" are expected to open across New Jersey in early January, Gov. Phil Murphy announced during Friday's COVID-19 briefing. The sites will be able to inoculate frontline healthcare workers, and will accommodate essential workers before moving to adults over the age of 65 and those with high-risk medical conditions. The news comes three days after a nurse at University Hospital in Newark became the first New Jersey resident to receive Pfizer's vaccine. Since then, "healthcare heroes" have been vaccinated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Atlant…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
If Lt Mark Richardson Calls You About Missing Jury Duty, Hang Up If Lt Mark Richardson Calls You About Missing Jury Duty, Hang Up
If Lt Mark Richardson Calls You About Missing Jury Duty, Hang Up It’s the phone scam that won’t die: A caller who claims to be from the local sheriff’s office threatens to arrest you if you don’t pay fines for ducking jury duty. He says his name is Lt. Mark Richardson. Heading into what will be its fifth year, the scam is still fooling people throughout the U.S. Hoping the scare tactic works, the caller warns that you’re in big trouble because you failed to report for jury duty. Then he offers you a way out: Just buy Amazon or iTunes gift cards for such-and-such an amount, then give him the numbers on the back of the card. "Yeah, right," you say. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Free NJ Narcan Giveaway Begins Thursday, No ID Or Script Needed Free NJ Narcan Giveaway Begins Thursday, No ID Or Script Needed
Free NJ Narcan Giveaway Begins Thursday, No ID Or Script Needed Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella will visit a local pharmacy to answer questions Thursday when New Jersey begins a three-day giveaway of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan. State residents can obtain a packet containing two doses of the nasal spray anonymously without a prescription or appointment through Saturday (Sept. 24-26) for free at participating pharmacies. The free doses will be available at 322 pharmacies, including several locations of Acme, CVS, Rite Aid, Sav-On, ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Walgreens, Walmart, Weis Markets and independent pharmacies throughout the state, auth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Taxi Rolls, Crashes On Route 3 During Robbery Attempt Taxi Rolls, Crashes On Route 3 During Robbery Attempt
Taxi Rolls, Crashes On Route 3 During Robbery Attempt A moving taxi overturned and crashed on Route 3 in Clifton when a passenger from the Jersey Shore stabbed and slashed the driver during a robbery attempt, authorities said. The cabbie was taking Jordan White, 20, to Montclair after picking him up in Manhattan when White convinced him to open the divider between them on westbound Route 3 around 4 a.m. Monday, Lt. Robert Bracken said. White, of Galloway in Atlantic County, pulled a box cutter and demanded the driver's cellphone and cash, Bracken said. When the driver refused, White stabbed and slashed him on the shoulder, back and chest, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Free NJ Narcan Giveaway: No ID Or Script Needed Free NJ Narcan Giveaway: No ID Or Script Needed
Free NJ Narcan Giveaway: No ID Or Script Needed New Jersey will offer the opioid overdose-reversal drug Narcan for free at pharmacies later this month, authorities announced Wednesday. But be warned: Health and law enforcement professionals emphasize that nalaxone isn't a miracle drug or fallback option. Opioid users can still die depending on how much is in their system and in what combination. State residents can obtain a packet containing two doses of the nasal spray anonymously without a prescription or appointment from Sept. 24 to Sept. 26, Gov. Murphy and Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson said. The free doses will be avai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS
Recognize HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS Police turned to the public for help finding a mugger who wrested a wallet from an Elmwood Park CVS customer, injuring him, before fleeing Friday afternoon. The robber lost a pair of Nike flip flops that he was wearing when he accosted the victim in the vestibule of the Market Street pharmacy just after noon, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was also wearing a sleeveless black tank top with the word "Proven" on the front, shorts and a black cap, Foligno said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification was processing the footwear and an iced tea bottle the robber had…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
COVID-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say COVID-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say
Covid-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say One of three people wanted for swiping $5,000 worth of allergy medicine from CVS stores in Mahwah and Ramapo claimed he had COVID-19 while repeatedly coughing on the Montvale police officers who captured them, authorities said Wednesday. He also gouged the paint on a police vehicle with his handcuffs, they said. Officer John Guico was at the CVS on Chestnut Ridge Road around 4 p.m. Tuesday when he spotted a vehicle described in an alert issued by Ramapo police shortly after a theft at one of their stores, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. Police arrested the trio, identified as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs
Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru Covid-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Walmart and Quest Diagnostic labs will offer self-administered tests for coronavirus starting next week, Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday. By appointment only, residents can drive-up to seven Walmart stores to be tested for COVID-19, and get results in about two days, Murphy said during an afternoon briefing. More details can be found at www.MyQuestCOVIDtest.com.  Tests will be offered at Walmart drive-thru sites in Garfield, North Bergen, Kearny, Flemington, Burlington, Howell and Mount Laurel. Walmart tests will be offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday next week, and Monday, Wednesda…

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by Jon Craig
News
18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores 18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores
18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer Covid-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores More than 18,000 licensed New Jersey pharmacists have been authorized by state officials to administer FDA-approved coronavirus tests to customers, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. The tests can be given without a prescription, Murphy said. Additionally, 50 CVS pharmacy locations across the state will be offering self-swab tests by the end of May. The governor did not say which locations would have self-swab tests. "This is another important step forward as we continue to build testing capacity in our state," Murphy said. A significant ramp up in COVID-19 testing and contact tracing are inte…

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by Cecilia Levine
Weather
High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed
High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed High winds on Monday toppled trees and utility poles, damaging homes and vehicles and closing North Jersey roadways. Among the damage: No injuries were reported when high winds blew off part of a Saddle Brook rooftop, blanketing a vehicle parked on President Street; Tenafly responders were busy with a window broken by high winds that rained glass on the sidewalk below from the second floor of the CVS on Washington Street, downed wires from a tree that toppled on Johnson Avenue and a large transformer fire at East Clinton Avenue and Woodland Street; Downed wires closed Route 46 in in both …

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by Jerry DeMarco