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Jersey Shore Man Among 7 Busted With Illegal Guns In Newark: Police Jersey Shore Man Among 7 Busted With Illegal Guns In Newark: Police
Jersey Shore Man Among 7 Busted With Illegal Guns In Newark: Police Seven people were arrested and nine illegal firearms were seized in four days in an ongoing gun operation in Newark, authorities said. The nine illegal handguns, recovered since Friday, April 29, bring the city's total gun recoveries in 2022 to 251 — a 54 percent increase over the same period a year ago, Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said. On Monday, May 2, 2022, police arrested Darrell Hodges, 27, and James Hailey, 41, both of Newark, in separate incidents, O'Hara said.  Police received a Crime Stoppers tip about a man with a firearm in area of Bergen and West Ru…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another
Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another A Newark police detective who frisked an ex-con suspected of firing and then tossing a gun found him carrying another one, federal authorities said. Kevin Hills, 21, had been seen on surveillance video shooting what turned out to be a 9mm Jiminez semiautomatic pistol after he got out of a sedan on Chadwick Avenue near Clinton Avenue last June, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Officers in the area found the gun after one of them reported hearing the shots, he said. A warranted search of the Lincoln LS that Hills had gotten out of turned up 64 rounds of various ammunition, according t…

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by Jerry DeMarco