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Covington, GA

Police: Out-Of-State Travelers Busted In Fairview Stop With Loaded Guns, Mags, Hollow Points Police: Out-Of-State Travelers Busted In Fairview Stop With Loaded Guns, Mags, Hollow Points
Police: Out-Of-State Travelers Busted In Fairview Stop With Loaded Guns, Mags, Hollow Points Two Georgia men who said they'd driven up to visit family ended up arrested instead after Fairview police said they found a pair of loaded handguns in their car. Officer Sebastian Castano stopped the 2014 Ford Mustang near the corner of 91st Street and Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. Castano, backed up by Officer Tommy Makdis, questioned the pair after a Glock 19 was spotted in plain view as the driver, Desmond A. Fitzpatrick, 25, retrieved his paperwork from the glove compartment, Capt. Michael Martic said. Fitzpatrick and passenger Darius T. Hill, also 25, were both removed from the veh…
Out-Of-State Man Shot, Killed On Paterson Street Corner Out-Of-State Man Shot, Killed On Paterson Street Corner
Out-Of-State Man Shot, Killed On Paterson Street Corner First responders tried in vain to revive an out-of-state man who died soon after being shot at a street corner in a violence-plagued Paterson neighborhood. Gunfire erupted once again at East 27th Street and 17th Avenue around 11 p.m. Monday. Responding police officers tried to revive Nadir Johnson, 35, of Covington, GA, after finding him on the sidewalk with multiple bullet wounds, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center a little over a half-hour later…
Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes
Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes ATF agents busted a convicted felon who they said trafficked guns to Jersey City that were used in crimes, including at least one shooting. A federal judge in Georgia ordered Jonathan Brown, 26, held Wednesday pending a detention hearing this Friday after special agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested him on gun trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. As an ex-con with several previous convictions, Brown, of Covington, GA, couldn’t buy the firearms himself, so he used straw purchasers in and around Georgia, then trafficked …