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Somalian Goes To Prison For Threatening To Assassinate Biden, Trump If They Ran For Reelection
A Somalian man living in Pennsylvania threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and now he's in a Pennsylvania Prison, according to a release by the US Department of Justice on March 15, 2024. Mohamed Farah, 34, who was living in Cumberland County, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to three years’ imprisonment on Wednesday, March 13. Following his release, the Court has also imposed a three-year term of probation. "The indictment alleges that in January 2022, Farah, who is a citizen of Somalia, threatened to ass…
Police & Fire
Jaw-dropper
: Accused Killer Of Paterson Woman Found Bludgeoned, Shot Could Be Freed In 3 Years
The accused killer of a woman whose body was found battered, bloodied and stuffed into a car parked on a Paterson street cut a plea deal that staggered the victim's loved ones. Now they want the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office investigated. Someone "should shed light on the lack of accountability the prosecutor's office takes for letting killers walk free in our community," said Sandra Williams. Williams was the one who'd called police and later found the body of her friend, 38-year-old single mom Stephanie DeJesus of Paterson, in the victims's Lincoln MKZ at the intersection of James S…
Events
Meet Conservative Commentator Dan Bongino in North Jersey
Dan Bongino, host of his own show on Rumble, is coming to Bergen County to teach everyone about how failure can be a helpful motivator. Bongino is signing copies of his new book "The Gift of Failure" on Friday, Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. at Books and Greetings in Northvale. In the book, the right wing pundit, discusses how his failures led him to become a prominent conservative commentator, including three unsuccessful runs for elected office in his native Maryland, according to a synopsis.. Bongino also discusses his time on the Secret Service and his battles with cancer, according to a synops…
Lifestyle
'Are Republicans Not Intelligent, Jimmy?': NJ 'Trump White House Survivor' On Kimmel
"How did you get caught up in this mess? You seem like an intelligent person." That's the question Jimmy Kimmel had for New Jersey's Cassidy Hutchinson, the Pennington native and former White House aide in the Trump administration, who was a star witness in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot hearing, by testifying that Trump physically attacked a Secret Service driver in an attempt to join the crowd at the capitol. Hutchinson, 27, dished it right back to the late-night host. "Are Republicans not intelligent, Jimmy?" Hutchinson said with a smirk. Hutchinson — a "proud, former New Jersey residen…
Police & Fire
Feds Help Seize 11 Guns, Bust 14 Members, Associates Of Violent Paterson 'UpTop' Gang
Federal agents united with local and county law enforcers to disarm several members of one of Paterson’s most violent street gangs. Members of the “UpTop” crew packed heat while slinging heroin and pot in the urban war zone that is the Silk City’s 4th Ward, authorities said. In response, the ATF teamed up with Passaic County prosecutor’s detectives, members of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and Paterson police, as well as several other local, county, state and federal agencies. A total of 11 guns were seized and 14 people charged locally and federally in a joint operation that began …
Politics
North Jersey Pols Demand Apology From White House After NJ Mayor Turned Away During Ramadan
A consortium of mayors throughout North Jersey are demanding an apology from the White House to Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah after he was denied entry for a celebration marking the end of Ramadan. Khairullah, who was recently sworn in for his fifth term as mayor, was told by Secret Service Monday, May 1 that he had not been cleared for entry. Khairullah received the news just hours before he was set to arrive. Khairullah was also recently interrogated for three hours at John F. Kennedy International Airport. "As mayors who value transparency and the U.S. legal sys…
News
'Islamophobia': NJ Muslim Mayor Barred From White House
Outrage spread through New Jersey's Muslim communities after one town's Muslim mayor was banned from attending an Eid-al-Fitr ceremony this week at the White House. Mohahmed Khairullah, who was recently sworn in for his fifth term as Prospect Park's mayor was told by Secret Service Monday, May 1 that he had not been cleared for entry. Khairullah received the news just hours before he was set to arrive. He said the move "reeks of Islamophobia." The Council on American-Islamic Relations New Jersey's chapter called it "unacceptable and insulting," and demanded an apology from the White H…
News
Kamala Harris Drops By Paramus (
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United States Vice President Kamala Harris stopped into Paramus on Wednesday, March 15. ALSO SEE: Here's Summary Of Kamala Harris' Speech At Paramus Event The VP reportedly flew into Newark Airport around noon and went to a Democratic finance event on Howland Avenue, sources with direct knowledge of the visit tell Daily Voice. Harris arrives on a US jet at Newark Airport.Kyle Mazza UNF News for Daily Voice Harris leaves Newark Airport in Secret Service vehicles.Kyle Mazza UNF News for Daily Voice The afternoon event brought traffic on the southbound side of Route 17 to a complete st…
Police & Fire
Third Victim Killed In White House Lightning Strike Was LA Bank Employee, 29, On Business Trip
A 29-year-old Los Angeles bank employee in Washington DC for business has been identified as the third person to die after being struck by lightning this week near the White House, his employer announced. Brooks A. Lambertson, along with James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Janesville, Wisconsin, also died after the three were struck Thursday, Aug. 4 directly outside of the White House complex, DC police said Friday. The fourth victim, an unidentified woman, remained critical. US Park Police and Secret Service agents rushed over to render aid after witnessing the 7 p.…
News
Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson In Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Hearing Has NJ Roots
A former White House aide considered a key witness in the events leading up to the Jab. 6 Capitol Riot hails from New Jersey. Cassidy Hutchinson — an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and first live witness in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021 — testified that former President Trump was thrown into a violent fit of rage when lead Secret Service agent tried to stop him from joining the riot himself. The Pennington native and Hopewell Valley Central High School graduate described an incident inside of the Secret Service limo known as "The Beast," with lead agent Bo…
Police & Fire
3 Charged With Money Laundering For Manufacturing Counterfeit Cash In Morris County, Police Say
Three people were charged with money laundering and similar offenses after they were caught manufacturing counterfeit cash in Morris County, authorities said. The suspects — whose names were not released — were stopped by Roxbury Township Police for acting suspiciously on Friday, April 15, the department said. A follow-up investigation was launched after the suspects told officers conflicting stories, police said. Additional officers arrived at the scene and found that the suspects had been manufacturing counterfeit currency in Roxbury Township. The trio was arrested and charged with mone…
Schools
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Evacuated From Event At High School Due To Bomb Threat
The Second Gentleman of the United States, Doug Emhoff, was whisked out of an event at a high school due to a bomb threat, according to the White House press briefing and multiple media outlets. Emhoff was at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. for a Black history program in partnership with the National Park Service when he was removed from the room by a Secret Service agent on Tuesday at 2:18 p.m., Fox News writes citing a pool report. A bomb threat was placed, CNN reports citing a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department. No additional information was available as of th…
News
Feds
: NJ Men Busted Following Three Fentanyl-Laced NYC Drug-Delivery Deaths
Two North Jersey men worked for a drug-courier service that peddled fentanyl-laced cocaine responsible for killing three customers in a single day, federal authorities in Manhattan charged. Billy "Jason" Ortega, 35, of West Milford was the dispatcher who sent Kaylen Rainey, 30, of Manhattan to three different city addresses on March 17, 2021 after promoting "new batches" of drugs, an FBI complaint on file in the Southern District Court of Manhattan alleges. Three customers -- Amanda Scher, Julia Ghahramani and Ross Mtangi -- all died after ingesting the coke, authorities said. Scher texted…
News
Kansas Man Who Threatened To Kill 'Anti-Christ' Biden To Appear In Maryland Court
A Kansas man who said God told him to travel to Washington DC to "slay the Anti-Christ," is due to appear in court in Maryland after being charged with threatening to assassinate President Biden, according to a criminal complaint. Scott Merryman, 37, of Independence, Kansas told a Secret Service agent he was traveling to DC to "lop the head off the serpent in the heart of the nation," and posted on Facebook that he had a "bullet" for President Biden, court documents show. Scott Merryman FacebookScott Merryman Facebook He also stated he was "cloaked in the blood of the lamb," and was go…
News
Police: Bergenfield ID Thieves Claim More Than 50 Victims
A pair of ID thieves from Bergenfield stole thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of more than 50 victims, authorities said Tuesday. Borough police worked with members of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Secret Service and police in Brick and Absecon to crack the case. It began last August, when one of the victims told borough police that someone had opened several accounts in her name and accumulated outstanding balances on them, Detective Lt. William Duran said. Investigators eventually identified William Newhart IV, 42, and Jennifer Bland, 34, as their primary suspects, Dur…
Police & Fire
Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users
Six reputed members of a drug network trafficked heroin from Paterson to Atlantic City that was connected to 48 overdose deaths and 84 other ODs, federal authorities charged. The FBI used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” “Pandora,” and “9½,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Camden names six reputed gang members accused of conspiring to move more than a kil…
Police & Fire
Drug Runner In Newark Ring Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Trafficking Heroin, Crack
A convicted drug runner from Newark must spend all of a plea-bargained 10 years in federal prison for his role in trafficking more than a kilo of heroin and a half-pound of crack. Maurice "Ree" McPhatter, 47, took the deal from the government rather than risk drug conspiracy convictions at a trial. Because there’s no parole in the federal prison system, he must serve the entire sentence imposed Friday by U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark McPhatter was among several members of a drug ring that operated in and around Newark who were taken down in 2017 by special agents and of…
Police & Fire
Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves
Saddle Brook police tracked down two men who they said loaded a pair of shopping carts with home theater equipment and assorted household items and tossed them into the back of a U-Haul parked right outside a Walmart fire exit. Brendan Hunt, 43, of Garfield and Gerard Hill, 53, of Passaic left the truck there for a quick getaway from the Route 46 store around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Detective Capt. John Zotollo said. They got onto westbound Route 46 and apparently seemed free and clear. Saddle Brook Detective Robert Littlejohn changed all that when he went to a Passaic spot where thieves often…
Police & Fire
Feds: Teaneck Man Busted With 5,126 Fake Credit Cards, DLs From 24 States
Secret Service agents seized 4,920 counterfeit credit cards, 206 counterfeit driver’s licenses from 24 different states and a bank of forgery equipment while arresting a man who they said ran a massive ID-theft operation from his Teaneck home. A federal judge released Michael Fulcher, 35, of Teaneck on $100,000 unsecured bond during a teleconferenced U.S. District Court appearance. Teaneck police found the stash in March after Fulcher called to report a burglary in progress, authorities said. Responding officers saw “several counterfeit driver’s licenses with Fulcher’s photograph as well a…
Police & Fire
Feds: Ex-Con Had 20 Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, $100,000 Cash, Gun In Union County Home
Federal agents seized a combined 20 pounds of heroin and cocaine from an ex-con caught running a drug mill from his Union County apartment, authorities said. Brad Toby, 35, of Linden served three years in state prison on a drug conviction before being released in 2016, records show. Federal authorities who found him back at it also seized $100,000 in suspected proceeds, drug packaging materials – including scales and kilo presses – and a handgun with ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Toby, who's believed to be part of a larger drug ring operating in operating in New Jersey an…
Police & Fire
California Rig Driver Caught With Kilos Of Heroin, Fentanyl In Morris Gets 27 Months In Fed Pen
A Salvadoran national will likely be deported after serving a 27-month plea-bargained federal prison term for driving a tractor-trailer that contained 22 pounds of heroin and nearly nine pounds of fentanyl when authorities stopped it in Morris County. Joselito Colindres, 42, of Riverside, CA, previously admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that he knew the drugs were in the trailer when he got to Pennsylvania, but he kept going to New Jersey, anyway. Authorities converged on the rig in North Jersey on Oct. 21, 2018, arresting Colindres, who they said had been living in the country lega…
Police & Fire
Edgewater Ex-Con Nabbed By Federal-State Strike Force Admits Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money
An ex-con living in Edgewater admitted in federal court Tuesday that he laundered more than $850,000 in drug money. Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, was living in the St. Moritz high-rise off Gorge Road when, federal authorities said, he “conspired with others to launder the proceeds of narcotics distribution, with the intent to promote the distribution of narcotics.” U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler scheduled sentencing for Jan. 8, 2020 after Henderson pleaded guilty Wednesday in Newark to conspiracy as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors. Henderson five years ago was charged …
Police & Fire
Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again
Only a month after he was busted with more than $650 in counterfeit $10 and $20 bills in Haworth, a Fairview man was caught by an Oakland detective with what authorities said was nearly $1,000 in bogus bills -- along with recent purchase receipts from several area stores.Andrew Lochard, 29, has a criminal record that also includes arrests in 2017 on forgery and money laundering charges in Hillsdale and falsely claiming to have a bomb in Paramus. JB Pet Supply summoned Oakland police Monday after Lochard tried passing a phony $20 bill, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. Soon after, Eldri…
Police & Fire
Seemed Real: Walmart Customer Caught With $3,660 In Counterfeit Bills, Saddle Brook PD Says
A Saddle Brook Walmart customer was caught with $3,660 in counterfeit bills after trying to check out with bogus fifties, authorities said. Sade Scruggs, 25, of East Orange gave the cashier $450 in bills Friday night that a cashier immediately detected were phony, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. The cashier alerted security, who detained Scruggs. Saddle Brook Police Officer Christopher Verost responded and found her carrying more than a hundred more bogus $20 and $50 bills, Kugler said. Police charged Scruggs with forgery and released her pending a Jan. 11 first appearance in Central Jud…
Police & Fire
Haworth PD: Secret Service Investigating Fairview Man Caught With Hundreds In Counterfeit Bills
The Secret Service is investigating several hundred dollars in counterfeit bills that Haworth police said they found on a Fairview man awaiting trial on charges of forgery, money laundering and making false threats. Responding to a report of a disruptive patron at a local sushi restaurant, Sgt. Gianluca Ragone and Officer Kevin McKeary found 29-year-old Andrew D. Lochard walking along nearby Schraalenburgh Road, Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. Lochard, who has an arrest record stretching back several years, allegedly smelled of marijuana. He also was carrying more than $650 in what turned …
Schools
NJ School Officials Get F On White House Visit: Students Here On Visas Can't Get In
A group of New Jersey students who braved a snow storm to visit the White House saw presidential security in action when three of their foreign classmates were turned away -- leaving school officials with egg on their faces, the New York Post reports. The seventh graders from a school in Highlands (Monmouth County) had spent hours on the bus Nov. 15, leaving them with only enough time for one stop: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When they arrived, Secret Service agents stopped three of the middle schoolers -- here on visas -- who didn't have their passports or other ID required for non U.S. citi…
News
National Guard Sent To New TZB, Major Transportation Venues After Rash Of Pipe Bombs
Security has been doubled at many transportation assets across the metro NYC area, including the new Tappan Zee Bridge, late Wednesday afternoon after a rash of bombs were sent to political leaders."Out of an abundance of caution, I am deploying additional National Guard soldiers and directing State law enforcement to double security at vital transportation assets across New York," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "New Yorkers have never succumbed to fear or intimidation, and today will be no different." In addition to the new TZB, additional National Guard members were d…
Police & Fire
Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone Leaves Action Behind For Final Walkout
LODI, N.J. -- He served his country in the U.S. Navy and his government as a Secret Service agent -- and on Wednesday, Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone took his final walkout from the department he'd served for 28 years. Quatrone, a former college lacrosse player who became chief in 2014, is headed to the private sector as an insurance company senior risk consultant manager. Whether it will be stimulating enough for him, given his career in public service, will be seen. Twice the 49-year-old lieutenant commander was deployed with the U.S. Navy -- during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 an…
Politics
Tristate Native Michael Wolff Stirs Up Controversy With New Trump Book
It's been quite the week for author Michael Wolff, a New Jersey native. Wolff, from Paterson, is the author of "Fire and Fury," an insider's account of the first year of President Donald Trump's White House. The book, which is out now, is No. 1 at Amazon. Former chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted in the book as saying a meeting Trump's team, which included Donald Trump, Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner took with Russians was "treasonous." Trump responded with a blistering statement saying Bannon has nothing to do with him or his presidency. "When he was fired,…
Police & Fire
Fire Breaks Out At Bill, Hillary Clinton's Westchester Compound
A fire that broke out at the Northern Westchester compound of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton was "knocked down" Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple reports. The wood fire began in the Secret Service facility on the Clintons property at 15 Old House Lane. The building was not connected to the Clintons; main home, according to Nick Merril, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton. The fire was called in at 2:51 p.m. according to New Castle Police. No injuries were reported, New Castle Police said. The Clintons were no…
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