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Son, 24, Gets Prison Time For Slaying Parents, Torching Their Central Jersey Home: Prosecutor
A 24-year-old man from Middlesex County has been sentenced to 70 years in New Jersey State Prison for the fiery murders of his parents and another man, authorities announced.
Jaree Kitchen, of Jamesburg, was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 28 by Judge Thomas J. Buck in the murder of his parents and another man, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.
On Nov. 6, 2019, at 3:19 a.m., Jamesburg police responded to 7 Sheridan St. for a house fire.
Police observed visible flames exiting the structure of the house. The Jamesburg Fire Department arrived on scene and extinguis…
Delaware Man, 20, Gets 38 Years State Prison For Camden Blueberry Farm Robbery, Fatal Shooting
A 20-year-old man from Delaware was sentenced to 38 years in New Jersey State Prison for his role in a fatal pre-dawn robbery at a South Jersey blueberry farm, authorities said.
Kwamere Benjamin of New Castle, Delaware, was sentenced on Friday to 38 years in state prison by Judge Frederick J. Schuck, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Winslow Township Police Chief George Smith.
Winslow police responded to the blueberry farm on the 700 block of Bairdmore Ave. shortly at 3:50 a.m. on June 25, 2017, on a report of a home invasion and shooting, Mayer and Smith s…
Feds: New Mob Regime Ran Sports Bets, Extorted Victims, Sold Drugs From Philly To Jersey Shore
The mob didn't disappear from Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore after former leaders Joseph Ligambi and Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were sent to prison, federal authorities revealed Monday.
Over the past five years, in fact, new leadership of the Philly and Atlantic City La Cosa Nostra beefed up the ranks, commanding illegal sports gambling, extorting victims through loansharking, selling cocaine, heroin and opioids -- even conspiring to kidnap a drug dealer who sold them bad dope, they said.
Fifteen reputed mobsters and associates of the organized crime family were charged in a …
Orange Man Found Guilty Of Killing Three Women: Report
A jury in Essex County Thursday convicted Khalil Wheeler-Weaver of slaying three women and brutally attacking a fourth, NJ.com reported.
Wheeler-Weaver, a 23-year-old from Orange, was found guilty on all 11 counts following a two-month trial, including desecrating human remains and aggravated sexual assault. Jurors took about three hours to convict him of the murders of Sarah Butler, 20, Robin West, 19, and Joanne Brown, 33, and of assaulting the fourth woman.
The surviving victim met Wheeler-Weaver at a motel room in Elizabeth, where he beat, handcuffed and sexually assaul…