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Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation
Colombian National Who Raped Pre-Teen While On Job In Bergen Gets 40 Years, Faces Deportation A self-employed handyman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for raping a pre-teen while working at a Bergen County home. Jurors this past May convicted Alejandro Velasquez-Martinez, a 48-year-old Colombian national living in Morristown, of sexually assaulting the girl while doing tile repairs in her family’s home in Demarest the morning of August 19, 2019. Velasquez-Martinez was arrested a short time later in Demarest and has remained in the Bergen County Jail since then. His next stop isn’t certain. If he goes to state prison, Velasquez-Martinez will have to serve 34 years before he’ll …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Celebrity Hairstylist Charged With Trafficking Child Porn, Worked On 'Mrs. Maisel,' More NJ Celebrity Hairstylist Charged With Trafficking Child Porn, Worked On 'Mrs. Maisel,' More
NJ Celebrity Hairstylist Charged With Trafficking Child Porn, Worked On 'Mrs. Maisel,' More A Bergen County hairstylist to the stars is charged with trafficking more than 450 child sex abuse images, authorities said. Daniel Koye, 40, of Rutherford, was seized by Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Jan. 28 in Atlanta after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office obtained a warrant for his arrest, they said. He's been held since then in the Clayton County Jail in Jonesboro, GA pending extradition to New Jersey, records show. Authorities began looking for Koye following a warranted search at his Ettrick Terrace apartme…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEEN HER? Jersey Shore Woman Sought In Wife's Killing SEEN HER? Jersey Shore Woman Sought In Wife's Killing
Seen HER? Jersey Shore Woman Sought In Wife's Killing Authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 48-year-old woman from Brick Township in connection with Sunday's murder of her spouse, law enforcement officials said. Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus, 48, of Brick Township, was charged with killing Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus, 32, at their home using a wine container, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Brick Township Police Chief James Riccio said in a statement. Gavilanez-Alectus also was charged with possessing a weapon, they said. "It is our understanding that they were married,'' Bryan Huntenburg, a spokes…

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by Jon Craig
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Woman Who Enslaved Sri Lankan Servant In Hudson, Passaic Homes Gets 70 Months In Fed Pen Woman Who Enslaved Sri Lankan Servant In Hudson, Passaic Homes Gets 70 Months In Fed Pen
Woman Who Enslaved Sri Lankan Servant In Hudson, Passaic Homes Gets 70 Months In Fed Pen A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a woman with homes in Secaucus and Woodland Park to nearly six years in prison for holding a Sri Lankan national against her will for more than nine years while forcing her to marry her and work without pay as a domestic servant. In addition to the 70-month prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler sentenced Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity, 44, to three years of supervised release and ordered her to pay restitution of $1.2 million. Jurors convicted Hunaity – also known as “Alia Al Qaternah” -- of forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain and ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Passaic County 'Cash Jet' Pilot Gets 13 Years In Fed Pen For Smuggling Coke Kilos In, $7.5M Out Passaic County 'Cash Jet' Pilot Gets 13 Years In Fed Pen For Smuggling Coke Kilos In, $7.5M Out
Passaic County 'Cash Jet' Pilot Gets 13 Years In Fed Pen For Smuggling Coke Kilos In, $7.5M Out A private "cash jet" pilot from Ringwood must spend the next 13 years in federal prison for bringing hundreds of kilos of cocaine into New Jersey and New York, then laundering more than $7.5 million in proceeds back to Guyana. Khamraj Lall, 52, of Ringwood was convicted by a federal jury in Trenton last October of using the proceeds of a "cocaine empire” to buy jets, homes and cars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. “He also paid more than $2 million in cash stuffed in suitcases to a Florida contractor to build an airplane hangar in Guyana,” Carpenito said. The Guyanese-born Lall -- who …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn
Bergenfield Dad Gets 5 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Child Porn A married Bergenfield father who shared images of child sex abuse with what he didn't know was an undercover ICE agent must spend the next five years in federal prison. As part of a plea deal, Barry Goldstein, 46, previously admitted having “explicit conversations” with the undercover agent about “the sexual abuse of children” while also sharing “images depicting child abuse,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. In return for Goldstein's plea, a U.S. District Court judge in Newark sentenced him Tuesday to a government-approved 60-month sentence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito annou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergenfield Dad Admits Trafficking Child Porn Bergenfield Dad Admits Trafficking Child Porn
Bergenfield Dad Admits Trafficking Child Porn A married Bergenfield father admitted Wednesday that he trafficked child pornography. Pleading guilty to the crime, Barry Goldstein told a federal judge in Newark that he had “explicit conversations” with an undercover agent about “the sexual abuse of children” while also sharing “images depicting child abuse,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The conversations began last May, before Goldstein -- a 46-year-old transportation supervisor for an environmental waste management company -- began sharing images of children being sexually abused, Carpenito said. Federal agents raided …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Hudson Woman Kept Sri Lankan National As Slave More Than 9 Years Feds: Hudson Woman Kept Sri Lankan National As Slave More Than 9 Years
Feds: Hudson Woman Kept Sri Lankan National As Slave More Than 9 Years A Secaucus woman held a Sri Lankan national against her will for more than nine years, forcing the victim to marry her and work without pay as a domestic servant, federal authorities charged. A federal grand jury earlier this month indicted Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity, 43, on charges of forced labor, alien harboring, and marriage fraud -- for which she was arraigned Wednesday in federal court in Camden. She remained free on $150,000 unsecured bond, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. According to the indictment: Hunaity -- also known as “Alia Al Qaterneh" -- brought the victim to the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Deported Child Sex Abuser Caught In NJ Returned To Prison Deported Child Sex Abuser Caught In NJ Returned To Prison
Deported Child Sex Abuser Caught In NJ Returned To Prison A Salvadoran national who served 10 years for sexually abusing a 7-year-old victim snuck back into the U.S. after being deported – and was sent back to prison after authorities caught him in New Jersey. Samuel De Jesus Corvera-Mata, 43, was sentenced earlier this week to an 18-month federal prison sentence after admitting that he illegally re-entered the country and violated the requirement that he register as a sex offender. Corvera-Mata must serve the entire sentence: There's no parole in the federal prison system.  The national Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Federal Raid: Bergenfield Man Charged With Trafficking Child Porn Federal Raid: Bergenfield Man Charged With Trafficking Child Porn
Federal Raid: Bergenfield Man Charged With Trafficking Child Porn A married Bergenfield father was charged with trafficking child pornography after federal agents raided his home and arrested him Wednesday, authorities said. Barry Goldstein, a 46-year-old transportation supervisor for an environmental waste management company, had “explicit conversations” with an undercover agent about “the sexual abuse of children” while also sharing “images depicting child abuse,” beginning three months ago, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Carpenito credited special agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows
Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows A 67-year-old Wallington retiree was sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison – just about all of which he must serve – for buying live child sex shows online. Stephen Hallett admitted in federal court in Newark last October that he bought dozens of shows from sellers in the Philippines of minors “engaging in sexually explicit conduct” from 2013 through 2015, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Hallett -- who once worked in administration at what was then Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus and is currently married to a physician -- was sentenced to five years of sup…

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by Jerry DeMarco