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NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ
NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ A dealer who admitted flooding four North Jersey counties with massive quantities of fentanyl, meth and coke is headed to federal prison for more than a decade. Juan Carlos Merced Moreno, 45, of Manhattan must serve out just about all of his plea-bargained 11-year sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Moreno and his partners operated a fentanyl mill in Washington Heights that supplied traffickers in New Jersey with at least 25,000 pills that were distributed throughout the Garden State, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Authorities disco…

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Black Tie Optional: NJ Sisters Charged With Staging Sham Marriages To Keep Non-Citizens In US Black Tie Optional: NJ Sisters Charged With Staging Sham Marriages To Keep Non-Citizens In US
Black Tie Optional: NJ Sisters Charged With Staging Sham Marriages To Keep Non-Citizens In US Two New Jersey sisters were charged by federal authorities with obtaining phony marriage licenses and staging bogus wedding ceremonies, receptions and other events in an elaborate scheme to help undocumented non-citizens avoid deportation. Andrea Torres, 55, and Regina Johnson, 57, recruited and paid American citizens to participate in the fraud by posing as spouses, an indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges. The Newark sisters went so far as pushing clients to take photos in a variety of locations in different clothing to make it appear that they were …

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