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Man Found Dead With Gunshot Wound In South Jersey Home: Prosecutors Man Found Dead With Gunshot Wound In South Jersey Home: Prosecutors
Man Found Dead With Gunshot Wound In South Jersey Home: Prosecutors A Galloway Township man was found dead in a Pleasantville home with a gunshot wound, authorities said. Pleasantville police discovered the body of 38-year-old Baseem Taliaferro on Thursday, May 9, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at a house on West Pleasant Avenue at around 11:02 p.m. Taliaferro had at least one gunshot wound to his torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy will determine his official cause of death. Prosecutors didn't say if any arrests had been made or if there were any…

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by Chris Spiker
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Wife Knew South Jersey Husband Was Sexually Abusing Child Under 13: Police Wife Knew South Jersey Husband Was Sexually Abusing Child Under 13: Police
Wife Knew South Jersey Husband Was Sexually Abusing Child Under 13: Police A Pleasantville couple has been arrested for allegations of abusing children including a child under 13 years old, authorities said. Christina Martinez 39,  knew that her husband, Sergio Martinez 38, had been sexually abusing children, according to Pleasantville police. As a result of the investigation, both Christina and Sergio Martinez were charged with multiple offenses, they said. Sergio Martinez was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13 years old, sexual assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child — sexual conduct with a child by the&…

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by Jon Craig
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South Jersey Man Admits Killing Atlantic City Woman, 56: Prosecutor South Jersey Man Admits Killing Atlantic City Woman, 56: Prosecutor
South Jersey Man Admits Killing Atlantic City Woman, 56: Prosecutor A 58-year-old man from Pleasantville has admitted to killing a woman in Atlantic City in 2018, authorities said. Mark Huff, 58, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter for the homicide of 56-year-old Vernell K. Vance, according to Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill. The State will recommend Huff be sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 10, Shill said. Huff was arrested in Pleasantville on April 16, 2018. He was taken into custody by detectives from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit, Atlantic City Police detect…

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by Jon Craig
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Atlantic City Woman, 54, Struck Dead By Car: Report Atlantic City Woman, 54, Struck Dead By Car: Report
Atlantic City Woman, 54, Struck Dead By Car: Report A 54-year-old woman was struck and killed while trying to cross a Pleasantville highway, NJ Advance Media reported. Janelle Oliver of Atlantic City was in the eastbound lanes of West Black Horse Pike near Noahs Road when the crash occurred, the outlet said. She was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City where she was pronounced dead. Anyone with more information about the fatal crash is urged to call Pleasantville police at 609-641-6100. Click here for more from NJ Advance Media.

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by Jon Craig
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Atlantic City Man, 54, Fatally Shot Atlantic City Man, 54, Fatally Shot
Atlantic City Man, 54, Fatally Shot Authorities are investigating a shooting that left one person dead in Atlantic County. Rennel Turner, 54, of Atlantic City was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds about 7 p.m. on Saturday in Egg Harbor Township, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner. Egg Harbor Township police received multiple 9-1-1 calls about shots fired at 201 Cedar Ave. Officers from EHTPD and Pleasantville police found Turner lying unconscious in the driveway. Turner was pronounced deceased at the scene, Tyner said. An autopsy determined Turner’s manner of death is homicide and the cause of d…

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by Jon Craig
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Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users
Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users Six reputed members of a drug network trafficked heroin from Paterson to Atlantic City that was connected to 48 overdose deaths and 84 other ODs, federal authorities charged. The FBI used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” “Pandora,” and “9½,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Camden names six reputed gang members accused of conspiring to move more than a kil…

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by Jerry DeMarco