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Federal Jury Convicts NYC Man In $200,000 Shakedown Of Jersey Shore Dad Federal Jury Convicts NYC Man In $200,000 Shakedown Of Jersey Shore Dad
Federal Jury Convicts NYC Man In $200,000 Shakedown Of Jersey Shore Dad Federal jurors in Trenton convicted a Brooklyn man for his role in a plot to strong-arm a Jersey Shore resident into giving him and his accomplices $200,000, authorities said. Endrit Kllogjeri, 27, and his cohorts were tripped up by an undercover detective posing as the Monmouth County victim, federal authorities said. Francis Garzon, 31, took a deal from the government rather than risk the consequences of guaranteed prison time if he was convicted at a trial, pleading guilty last month to his role in the plot. Kllogjeri rolled the dice and lost, however. He, Garzon and an unidentified co…
Three-Time North Jersey Bank Robber Convicted Of Cellphone Store Holdup Three-Time North Jersey Bank Robber Convicted Of Cellphone Store Holdup
Three-Time North Jersey Bank Robber Convicted Of Cellphone Store Holdup An ex-con from Essex County who served 13½ years in federal prison for holding up banks in Fair Lawn, Clifton and Belleville within weeks of one another was convicted Monday of robbing an East Orange cellphone store at gunpoint just two months after his release. Kenneth Graham, 50, of Newark, was wearing a black mask and blue jeans when he entered the downtown Boost Mobile store on Central Avenue and announced a robbery in the middle of the afternoon on Jan. 18, 2021, federal prosecutors said. Graham pointed a gun at a store employee, who was ordered to place several cell phones from a dis…
Passaic County Pedophile Who Tried To Get Victim To Change Story Gets 30 Years Without Parole Passaic County Pedophile Who Tried To Get Victim To Change Story Gets 30 Years Without Parole
Passaic County Pedophile Who Tried To Get Victim To Change Story Gets 30 Years Without Parole UPDATE: A convicted pedophile from Clifton must spend the next 30 years in prison before he’ll be eligible for parole for sexually assaulting a child over the course of several years. Alfredo Hernandez-Sanchez, 36, was convicted by jurors in Paterson this past April of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, as well as sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. Investigators from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office seized Hernandez-Sanchez after being alerted by Clifton police in June 2018. The victim, who was 15 at the time, “reported being sexually abus…
Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole
Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole An ex-con from New York must spend the next three years in federal prison, with no parole, for trying to slip a loaded, stolen gun and lots of ammunition past a security checkpoint at Newark Airport. Desmond Herring, 48, of Newburgh made a beeline for his gate when a TSA officer staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor found the loaded weapon -- along with boxes of ammo -- in his carry-on bag on Nov. 29, 2021, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said. Port Authority police collected the bag and examined its contents, the TSA said at the time. Along with the 9mm pistol were 10 rou…
Lakewood Man Gets 25 Years State Prison In Fatal Stabbing Lakewood Man Gets 25 Years State Prison In Fatal Stabbing
Lakewood Man Gets 25 Years State Prison In Fatal Stabbing A 33-year-old man from Lakewood has been sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey state prison in a fatal stabbing, authorities said. Jorge Santiago-Garcia was sentenced on his previously entered guilty plea to aggravated manslaughter in connection with the stabbing death of Rodrigo Jimenez-Paz in Lakewood Township on August 31, 2020. On August 31, 2020, Lakewood police were summoned to a business on 2nd Avenue in Lakewood in response to multiple 911 calls indicating that an individual had been stabbed at that location. Officers found Jimenez-Paz, 29, of Lakewood wi…
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…
Repetitive Pedophile Priest Formerly Of Jersey City Church Dies Repetitive Pedophile Priest Formerly Of Jersey City Church Dies
Repetitive Pedophile Priest Formerly Of Jersey City Church Dies A twice-convicted pedophile priest who'd been an associate pastor at a Jersey City church reportedly has died. The death of the Rev. Carmen Sita -- who changed his name to Gerald Howard after getting probation for his first conviction -- was announced by SNAP, a survivors network that provides support for sex abuse victims. Sita had been at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church on West Side Avenue for six years when he was arrested in 1982 on charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a 17-year-old boy and giving him pot. After pleading guilty the following year, Sita was sentenced to five months…
MS-13 Members Convicted Of Murder Of Innocent West New York Man, 19, Other Gang-Related Crimes MS-13 Members Convicted Of Murder Of Innocent West New York Man, 19, Other Gang-Related Crimes
MS-13 Members Convicted Of Murder Of Innocent West New York Man, 19, Other Gang-Related Crimes Three ranking MS-13 members from El Salvador were convicted by federal jurors in Newark of the murder of an innocent 19-year-old dishwasher from West New York, among other charges stemming from their participation in the international gang. It was one of many offenses that jurors agreed were committed by Juan Pablo “Humilde” Escalante-Melgar, 31, Elmer “Locote” Cruz-Diaz, 33, and Oscar “Snappy” Sanchez-Aguilar, 25 – among them, extortion, witness tampering, and drug trafficking. Federal prosecutors told the jurors that Escalante-Melgar and Sanchez-Aguilar instructed an MS-13 member and an …