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Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…

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FEDS: NJ Ex-Con Caught With 1,000 Fentanyl Pills, 7 Pounds Of Meth, Guns, Ammo FEDS: NJ Ex-Con Caught With 1,000 Fentanyl Pills, 7 Pounds Of Meth, Guns, Ammo
Feds: NJ Ex-Con Caught With 1,000 Fentanyl Pills, 7 Pounds Of Meth, Guns, Ammo A South Jersey ex-con with a lengthy history of drug-dealing arrests was busted in East Brunswick this week with 1,000 fentanyl pills, seven pounds of crystal meth and two handguns, federal authorities said. Manuel A. Quinones, 47, of Pennsauken, was nabbed by a team of federal and state law enforcement officers who said they found the potentially-fatal fentanyl and the coke during a search of his car on Monday, Jan. 31. They then obtained written consent to search his home, which U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Phillip R. Sellinger said turned up not only more drugs but also two firearms, amm…

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Feds Indict Man Accused Of Shooting David Ortiz On Heroin, Cocaine Trafficking Charges Feds Indict Man Accused Of Shooting David Ortiz On Heroin, Cocaine Trafficking Charges
Feds Indict Man Accused Of Shooting David Ortiz On Heroin, Cocaine Trafficking Charges A federal grand jury in New Jersey on Thursday indicted the Paterson man accused of shooting baseball legend David “Big Papi” Ortiz on heroin- and cocaine-dealing charges. Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz, 25, also is charged in the indictment returned in Newark with carrying a gun while committing a drug crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Ferreira-Cruz has been imprisoned in the Dominican Republic on attempted murder charges since the June 9 attempt on the former Red Sox superstar's life earlier this month. He's been wanted, as well, for a pair of street robberies in Clifton last year. Ferrei…

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by Jerry DeMarco