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Drug-related crime
Police & Fire
Getaway Driver, 21, In Bergen Drug Murder Gets 30 Years Without Parole
The getaway driver in the cold-blooded killing of a Fairview man during a drug-related apartment robbery was sentenced to 30 years without parole in state prison. David Martinez, 21, of North Bergen watched as three men who were in the apartment when David Duque Soto was shot in June 2019 took guilty pleas rather than risk the consequences of a trial. Martinez let a jury decide his fate and was convicted on March 13 in Hackensack of felony murder, armed robbery, conspiracy and weapons possession. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutors Suzanne Cevasco and Matthew Fitzpatrick presented 16 witn…
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Murder Case Cracked: Trio Charged With NJ Parking Lot Slaying
Investigators from Bergen and Passaic counties cracked the March slaying of a 26-year-old Paterson man who was gunned down in the parking lot of a Lodi garden apartment complex. Charged with murder, conspiracy and weapons offenses in the drug-related killing are Giovanni Feliciano, 22, of Garfield, and Jefersson Gonzalez, 21, of Paterson. Charged with drug and weapons charges is Elvis DeJesus, 24, of Paterson. The victim, John Anthony DeLeon, was struck in a hail of gunfire at the Kennedy Gardens Apartments on Victor Street off Route 46 on March 8, said Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Muse…
Police & Fire
Morris County Man Nabbed In Drug-Fueled Stabbing Arrested Again For Slew Of Vehicle Burglaries
A Morris County man arrested in April for allegedly stabbing a man during a drug-fueled argument was nabbed in yet another string of car burglaries and a vehicle theft Wednesday, authorities said. Joseph Derissio, 23, is accused of burglarizing several vehicles and stealing another on June 10, according to Lincoln Park Police. Each of the alleged burglaries occurred in the upper Main Street area neighborhoods as well as the Hunting Meadow Condo Complex, which is also in close proximity to Main Street, police said. Police say they quickly identified Derissio, of Lincoln Park, as the suspect…
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Guilty
: Egg Harbor Man Convicted Of Killing Atlantic City Man With Shot To Head
Jurors on Thursday convicted a 37-year-old man from Egg Harbor Township of killing an Atlantic City man with a gunshot to the head in what authorities said was a drug-related slaying. The jury in Mays Landing convicted Troy Demby of slaying 30-year-old Raphael G. Terrigino in a parked car in Pleasantville in February 2018 and of having and selling cocaine, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner said. “This is yet another tragic example of the negative impact that drugs have on our families and in our community," Tyner said in a statement. "There are no winners with illegal dr…