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'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints 'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints
'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints It doesn’t rank with airports in Atlanta, Houston or Dallas in terms of numbers, but Newark Liberty has had what the TSA and Port Authority say are an alarming amount of guns seized from passengers trying to board planes with them. And most of those things are loaded. It's become an epidemic, said Thomas Carter, the Transportation Security Administration’s director for New Jersey, during a Wednesday news conference at the airport. “Guns and ammunition are never allowed to pass through a security checkpoint to be carried onto a flight, even if a traveler has a concealed carry permit,” Cart…

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Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000 Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000
Feds: Online NJ 'Romeo' Conned Woman Out Of $300,000 She met him on an Internet word game, then gave him her heart. Before she knew it, he’d taken more than $300,000 of her money. And she didn’t even know who her online Romeo really was. Eseosa Obaseki, 36, of Linden, was trying to dodge justice when FBI agents grabbed him this week at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, authorities said. Obaseki used a bogus persona to reach out to the Washington State victim in late winter/early spring of 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Their online exchanges continued for a couple of months before Obaseki “convinced [her] of his rom…

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