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South Jersey Friendly's Shutters After Nearly 40 Years South Jersey Friendly's Shutters After Nearly 40 Years
South Jersey Friendly's Shutters After Nearly 40 Years Another New Jersey Friendly's restaurant has closed its doors. A sign hung in the door of the Marlton location on Route 70 W. — which opened in 1983 — announcing the closure Monday, Aug. 15, as first reported by NJ Advance Media. New Jersey is home to 18 of the chain's 125 locations in America. The Voorhees location is temporarily closed.

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by Cecilia Levine
News
AGAIN? Habitual Offender Charged With Burglarizing NJ Takeout Joint AGAIN? Habitual Offender Charged With Burglarizing NJ Takeout Joint
Again? Habitual Offender Charged With Burglarizing NJ Takeout Joint A Lodi career criminal with a rap sheet more than 15 years long was arrested after burglarizing a Prospect Park takeout restaurant before dawn Saturday, authorities said. Ryan Patrick Morgan, 34, has been arrested dozens of times in North Jersey since his 18th birthday, records show. Over that time, the tattooed ex-con has been busted in no fewer than seven towns on charges that include robbery, resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer, as well as a string of drug court and probation violations. During a two-week span in 2017, Garfield police said, Morgan swiped a purse …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Man Claiming To Have Gun Robs Hackettstown Friendly's, Authorities Say Man Claiming To Have Gun Robs Hackettstown Friendly's, Authorities Say
Man Claiming To Have Gun Robs Hackettstown Friendly's, Authorities Say Police in Hackettstown are seeking the public's help identifying a robbery of a Friday night robbery of Friendly's restaurant. The suspect passed a note to the employee demanding money and reportedly had a gun at the Mountain Avenue location between 9:30 and 9:40 p.m., police said. No gun gun was shown, though, and an undisclosed amount of cash was stolen. The suspect then fled the restaurant and was last seen running northbound between the old Zane’s Car Wash building and Mountain Avenue, police said. The male suspect was last seen wearing a black ski mask, aviator type sunglasses, …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
RECOGNIZE HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do RECOGNIZE HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do
Recognize HIM? If You're Police Or Probation Officer In Bergen County, You Probably Do A career criminal with a 15-year rap sheet in a slew of Bergen County towns made it easy for Elmwood Park detectives to identify him as the burglar who threw a brick through the front window of a local Friendly’s the night before, authorities said. Responding to a Thursday night call of an unruly patron at the Banana King fast food restaurant on Route 46, Detectives Keith Hartmann and Thomas Giammanco found Ryan Patrick Morgan sitting at the bar, drinking a beer, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Both immediately recognized Morgan from surveillance video of Wednesday night’s break-in at th…

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by Jerry DeMarco