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Newark Man Found Guilty In Drug Deal That Turned Fatal Newark Man Found Guilty In Drug Deal That Turned Fatal
Newark Man Found Guilty In Drug Deal That Turned Fatal A jury found a Newark man guilty of conspiracy in the murder of another city man during a drug deal three years ago, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.  Shaheed Blamahsah, 31, arranged to meet Bruce Turner, 29, on Dec. 31, 2015, at 13th Avenue and Camden Street in Newark. Turner was shot seven or eight times and was robbed of about $30,000, according to a witness. Some of Turner's clothes and his shoes had been removed after the shooting.  A third person who was present was fatally shot several weeks after Turner's murder, the prosecutor's office said. That person w…

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by Paul Milo
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Ex-Con Gets 11+ Years For $2,000 Passaic Nightclub Robbery Ex-Con Gets 11+ Years For $2,000 Passaic Nightclub Robbery
Ex-Con Gets 11+ Years For $2,000 Passaic Nightclub Robbery PASSAIC, N.J. -- An ex-con who admitted robbing a Passaic nightclub of $26,084 at gunpoint with two accomplices was sentenced Friday in federal court in Newark to more than 11 years in prison. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, 29-year-old Keontrae “Taz” Lawrence of South Orange must serve just about all of the sentence. Both Lawrence and another confessed accomplice -- Shaheed "Abbo" Blamahsah, also of South Orange – made the employee dump the contents of two safes into two purses at gunpoint and then count to 100 as the trio left the club on Sept. 6, 2015. …

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by Jerry DeMarco