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MAIL-ORDER METH: NJ Man Who Shipped 100 Pounds Gets 14+ Years In Fed Pen MAIL-ORDER METH: NJ Man Who Shipped 100 Pounds Gets 14+ Years In Fed Pen
Mail-order Meth: NJ Man Who Shipped 100 Pounds Gets 14+ Years In Fed Pen A New Jersey man who shipped more than 100 pounds of crystal meth for sale cross-country through the U.S. mail was sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison as part of a plea deal. Michael Venditti, 39, of Camden, was arrested during a controlled delivery of a package in September 2021. It had been intercepted on its way from Calexico, a Southern California town at the Mexican border, federal authorities said. Inspectors got a warrant to open the package after a drug-detection dog reacted to its arrival at a South Jersey postal facility, they said. Inspectors swapped some of the m…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
J.C. Penney To Close More Stores, Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees J.C. Penney To Close More Stores, Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees
J.C. Penney To Close More Stores, Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees J.C. Penney says it will close eight stores in 2018, resulting in 480 job cuts. This comes after the department store chain shuttered 140 stores in 2017. The eight stores scheduled for closure this year are: Hampton Village Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey Sandburg Mall in Galesburg, Illinois Viking Plaza in Alexandria, Minnesota Washington Park Mall in Bartlesville, Oklahoma Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington Calexico Store in Calexico, California Knox Village Square in Mt. Vernon, Ohio J.C. Penney had announced earlier this week, 600 jobs would …

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by Joe Lombardi