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'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust 'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust
'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust Innocent children and gang members alike have been killed by shots randomly fired in anger by “So Icy Boys,” a violent Bloods set that has controlled the heroin trade on Paterson’s east side for years. Last week, nine reputed members of the gang were charged with racketeering, and 10 more people with buying heroin, cocaine, or Ketamine from them, during a joint investigation that became known as “Operation Icebox.” Two gang members were killed during the five-month probe – one of them at 10th Avenue and 28th Street, the network’s drug-trafficking hub, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring
Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring An Edgewater man conspired with the owner of a shuttered go-go bar to use stolen credit card information – and illegally acquired gift cards – to steal more than $12 million, authorities said. Kevin Bae, 30, shared a bank account with the Morris County bar owner “into which millions of dollars were transferred” through the scheme, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. They generated the money through a variety of scams, including scaring elderly people over the phone into buying gift cards by pretending to be a grandchild who was in jail and needed bail money, Grewal said. The own…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Sore Loser? Meadowlands Bettor Files One-Of-A-Kind Lawsuit Sore Loser? Meadowlands Bettor Files One-Of-A-Kind Lawsuit
Sore Loser? Meadowlands Bettor Files One-Of-a-kind Lawsuit A horse trainer previously disciplined for horse doping is being accused of doing it again in a lawsuit by a bettor who lost $32,000 at the Meadowlands Racetrack, NJ.com reports. Jefferey Tretter of Illinois is suing trainer Robert Bresnahan, Jr. and owner J.L. Sadowsky LLC for doping, racketeering and fraud after blood samples from the winning horse came back positive for a banned blood-builder, the article says. In 2012, the U.S. Trotting Association disciplined Bresnahan for doping a different horse with Oxymorphone, the article says. Then, in 2016, a blood sample from 2015 taken from  …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Grewal On Assault Weapon Smugglers: 'Iron Pipeline' Has To Stop Grewal On Assault Weapon Smugglers: 'Iron Pipeline' Has To Stop
Grewal On Assault Weapon Smugglers: 'Iron Pipeline' Has To Stop "To reduce gun violence in our communities and to reduce the threat to our communities, and to reduce the threat to our law enforcement officers from assault rifles and other illegal firearms, we need to stop the flow of illegal guns into our state," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. "New Jersey has some of the toughest gun laws in this country. You can’t just walk into a store here, present your driver’s license, and walk out with multiple guns, including assault rifles," Grewal said in announcing indictments against seven purported members of a C…

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by Jerry DeMarco