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Good Samaritans Become Victims When NJ Driver In I-95 Crash Flees In Their Car: Police Good Samaritans Become Victims When NJ Driver In I-95 Crash Flees In Their Car: Police
Good Samaritans Become Victims When NJ Driver In I-95 Crash Flees In Their Car: Police A 54-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested after police in Delaware say he stole the vehicle of a Good Samaritan checking on him after a crash. Nadeem Cassiem of Keasbey (Woodbridge) was heading south on I-95 in a Toyota Rav4 in Newark, DE near State Route 273 around 7:10 a.m. Wednesday Feb. 7, when he rear-ended a white Dodge RAM pickup, Delaware State Police said. A concerned passerby stopped to check on the drivers for injuries, at which point the Cassiem got into the Good Samaritan’s Mercury Mountaineer and fled southbound on I-95 in the stolen SUV, DSP said. Troopers ide…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Multi-Million-Dollar NJ Home Burglary: Three Captured In Celebrity Neighborhood Break-In Multi-Million-Dollar NJ Home Burglary: Three Captured In Celebrity Neighborhood Break-In
Multi-Million-Dollar NJ Home Burglary: Three Captured In Celebrity Neighborhood Break-In Law enforcers from several agencies helped capture a burglary trio from Delaware who authorities said targeted a multi-million-dollar home in an exclusive Bergen County neighborhood. It was shortly before 4:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, when the burglars apparently found an unlocked rear door to the Timberline Drive home off Route 9W in Alpine, in an area where Chris Rock, Lil Kim and other celebrities own estates. Police from surrounding towns, Bergen County sheriff's officers and others quickly converged on New Jersey's most affluent suburb, and the Delaware trio were all soon in custody. E…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Fugitive Pursued For Woman's Murder Shot Himself At NJ Turnpike Rest Stop, State AG Says Fugitive Pursued For Woman's Murder Shot Himself At NJ Turnpike Rest Stop, State AG Says
Fugitive Pursued For Woman's Murder Shot Himself At NJ Turnpike Rest Stop, State AG Says UPDATE: A man wanted for murder who died in a confrontation with police at a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop pulled the trigger himself, the state's top law enforcement official announced on Thursday. Kyle Foggy, 29, of Cherry Hill had stalked Michele Cruz, 28, before killing her in front of her Camden County apartment around 4 a.m. Feb. 25, they said. Authorities armed with an arrest warrant for murder and weapons possession caught up to Foggy at the Clara Barton Service Area in Salem County three days later, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin confirmed on Thursday, March 9. Foggy …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Gloucester Ex-Convict Indicted For Molesting Another Boy, Authorities Say Gloucester Ex-Convict Indicted For Molesting Another Boy, Authorities Say
Gloucester Ex-Convict Indicted For Molesting Another Boy, Authorities Say A convicted sex offender who previously served jail time in Delaware has been newly indicted for sexually assault in South Jersey, authorities said. Scott J. Bicking, 54, of Paulsboro originally was charged in Gloucester and Cumberland counties in March for sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The latest assaults allegedly occurred several times in Woodbury and Vineland, police said. Bicking, who has been held in Cumberland County Correctional Facility, is due to appear in court on the new indictment on Wednesday. The indictment accuses Bicking of touching a boy's g…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
South Jersey Man Arrested In Truck Stop Slaying South Jersey Man Arrested In Truck Stop Slaying
South Jersey Man Arrested In Truck Stop Slaying A 40-year-old man from Burlington County has been arrested in connection with the death of another man at a South Jersey truck stop, authorities said. Police officers were called on a report of a fight about 11 p.m. Thursday in the driver’s lounge at Flying J Travel Center on Slapes Corner Road in Carneys Point, Salem County, reports said. Marchello Williams of Browns Mills was being held at the Salem County Correctional Facility on charges of murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, police said. Police found Williams sitting at a table and a 47-year-old victim from Newar…

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by Jon Craig
Obituaries
Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash
Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash A recent news report has identified a 21-year-old Morris County native as the victim of a Florham Park weekend crash. Whippany Park graduate and University of Delaware student Samantha Racz died in the Columbia Turnpike crash on Jan. 16, MorrisFocus reports. The two-car crash occurred on the 300 block of Columbia Turnpike, around 11:25 p.m., Florham Park police said. Racz graduated from Whippany Park High School in 2018 and was a junior majoring in graphic design with a communications minor at the University of Delaware in Newark, her obituary says.  She was also a member of the…

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by Valerie Musson