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NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Sentenced To 6 Years For Running Drugs Paterson rapper Fetty Wap caught something of a break on Wednesday. A federal judge sentenced the platinum-selling rapper – whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II – to six years in federal prison on May 24 for his role in a drug-trafficking ring that flooded part of New Jersey and Long Island with cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Maxwell had been charged with conspiring to transport more than 100 kilos of the drugs there from the West Coast. Rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial, he took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in U.S. Eastern District Court …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jersey Shore Man Admits Labeling Hong Kong-Bound Shipment Of Iguanas As 'Toys' Jersey Shore Man Admits Labeling Hong Kong-Bound Shipment Of Iguanas As 'Toys'
Jersey Shore Man Admits Labeling Hong Kong-Bound Shipment Of Iguanas As 'Toys' A Jersey Shore man admitted Tuesday that he falsely labeled a package containing 10 live iguanas bound for Hong Kong as “toys," federal authorities said. Jason Ksepka, 44, of Farmingdale, shipped the package via U.S. Priority Mail Express from the post office in Lambertville, Acting U.S Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. An unidentified sender paid him $500 to falsely label the package and ship it to Hong Kong, on top of $500 that he’d already given him, Honig said. Ksepka labeled the contents as “Toys” and the sender as “Luke Jacobs” on a U.S. Postal Service international shipping label and…

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Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money
Jersey City Officer Admits Collecting No-Show Traffic Detail Money A Jersey City police officer admitted via teleconference in federal court in Newark on Tuesday that she collected more than $9,000 with a colleague's help for what turned out to be no-show traffic duty. Gicella Sanchez, 36, struck a plea deal with the government rather than go to trial for the scheme after it was sniffed out by the FBI. Police departments routinely provide off-duty officers to direct traffic on certain jobs by private contractors. The officers are required to “complete and provide…a voucher that indicated, among other things, the hours worked on particular off-duty ass…

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by Jerry DeMarco