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THIS IS BAIL REFORM? Judge Releases Accused Big-Time Paterson Dealer Busted In $1M Drug Raid THIS IS BAIL REFORM? Judge Releases Accused Big-Time Paterson Dealer Busted In $1M Drug Raid
This IS Bail Reform? Judge Releases Accused Big-Time Paterson Dealer Busted In $1M Drug Raid One of the biggest arguments for bail reform in New Jersey was that poor defendants regularly languished in jail, waiting for their cases to be heard, while drug dealers routinely paid their way out. Examples of offenders who are repeatedly caught and immediately released have dominated the debate over bail reform. New Jersey got a different example, however, with the arrest of a Dominican national described by authorities as a big-time Paterson drug dealer. Roughly 3½ pounds of fentanyl powder and 1,300 fentanyl pills were among nearly $1 million worth of narcotics seized from Pedro Rodr…
Deadliest Corner In Paterson? Five Wounded In Hail Of Gunfire Where Girl, 15, Was Killed Deadliest Corner In Paterson? Five Wounded In Hail Of Gunfire Where Girl, 15, Was Killed
Deadliest Corner In Paterson? Five Wounded In Hail Of Gunfire Where Girl, 15, Was Killed Five people were wounded in a predawn shooting Sunday at the same Paterson street corner where a 15-year-old girl was shot and killed last month, authorities confirmed. Officers responding to a shots-fired report at the corner of Essex and Madison streets found more than three dozen shell casings along with one of the victims, a 25-year-old Haledon man. He was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center. Soon after, four more victims showed up at the hospital in private vehicles – three men, two of them 19 and the other 30, and a 17-year-old juvenile, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia …