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Woman, 70, Hospitalized With Serious Injuries After Being Struck By Car In Morristown Woman, 70, Hospitalized With Serious Injuries After Being Struck By Car In Morristown
Woman, 70, Hospitalized With Serious Injuries After Being Struck By Car In Morristown A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after being hit by a car while crossing a street in Morristown Saturday night, authorities said. The Lincoln Park woman was crossing Elm Street in Morristown when she was hit by a car heading north around 10 p.m., police Capt. Stuart Greer said in a release. The woman, who was unresponsive, was taken to Morristown Medical Center, where she remains in serious but stable condition, Greer said. The driver, a 78-year-old Morristown man, stayed at the scene following the accident and has been cooperative in the police investigation, Gre…

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by Valerie Musson
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KNOW ANYTHING? Police Seek Info On Trio Who Stole Cooking Oil From Morris County Restaurant KNOW ANYTHING? Police Seek Info On Trio Who Stole Cooking Oil From Morris County Restaurant
Know Anything? Police Seek Info On Trio Who Stole Cooking Oil From Morris County Restaurant Police in Morris County are seeking information on three men seen stealing cooking oil from a local restaurant Friday afternoon. The men exited a grey van and stole three barrels of cooking oil from the back of South & Pine Restaurant on South Street in Morristown around 2:15 p.m., Police Capt. Stuart Greer said. The employees initially thought that the men were contractors and did not contact anyone in the van, Greer said. Police were called when it was confirmed that the oil had been stolen as opposed to removed by the restaurant’s contractors, Greer said. Anyone with information ab…

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by Valerie Musson
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SEEN HIM? Family Offers $1,000 Reward In Locating Missing Morristown Man SEEN HIM? Family Offers $1,000 Reward In Locating Missing Morristown Man
Seen HIM? Family Offers $1,000 Reward In Locating Missing Morristown Man The family of a missing Morristown man is offering $1,000 to anyone with information leading to his whereabouts. Joseph Pyne, who is homeless and prone to seizures, was last heard from on Oct. 27, his sister Tara Pyne Bartz said, noting his disappearance is "out of character." Pyne -- normally in touch with his family -- typically sleeps at the local shelter an on friends' couches, Bartz said. A community-wide search was held on Saturday in Morristown. "Thank you to all our family and friends near and far who came out yesterday in the cold to help us search for Joe," Bartz said of the sea…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Six Passaic County Residents Accused Of Laundering $27 Million For International Drug Cartels Six Passaic County Residents Accused Of Laundering $27 Million For International Drug Cartels
Six Passaic County Residents Accused Of Laundering $27 Million For International Drug Cartels Four Paterson residents and two from Passaic were caught laundering more than $27 million for Central and South American drug cartels operating in New Jersey and New York, federal authorities announced Wednesday. Morristown police helped the DEA and IRS crack the case, in which the defendants and other conspirators converted cash from drug sales in the two states to more than 1,000 cashier’s checks that were sent to brokers “acting on behalf of drug trafficking organizations with ties to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and elsewhere,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. “The cashier’s che…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Private Passaic County Pilot Convicted Of Smuggling Kilos Of Cocaine In, $7.5M Out Private Passaic County Pilot Convicted Of Smuggling Kilos Of Cocaine In, $7.5M Out
Private Passaic County Pilot Convicted Of Smuggling Kilos Of Cocaine In, $7.5M Out Federal jurors convicted a private "cash jet" pilot from Ringwood of 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, 51, of Ringwood “used the proceeds of his cocaine empire” to buy jets, homes and cars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday. “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 owned a private jet charter business called Exec Jet Club in Gai…

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by Jerry DeMarco