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DOUBLE SUICIDE: Men From NJ, PA Found Dead At Gianni Versace's Former Mansion In Miami DOUBLE SUICIDE: Men From NJ, PA Found Dead At Gianni Versace's Former Mansion In Miami
Double Suicide: Men From NJ, PA Found Dead At Gianni Versace's Former Mansion In Miami Men from Pennsylvania and New Jersey died in an apparent double suicide at fashion icon Gianni Versace's former mansion in Miami -- nearly 24 years to the day the Italian designer was killed on the building's front steps, authorities announced. Housekeeping found the bodies of Adam Rashap, 31, of Randolph, New Jersey, and Alexander Gross, 30, of York, Pennsylvania, inside of The Villa Casa Casuarina luxury hotel around 1:20 p.m., law enforcement in Miami said. Miami Beach spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said the deaths are being investigated as suicides. Serial killer Andrew Cunanan …

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
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NJ Dad, Daughter, Son In-Law Among Nearly 100 Missing In Miami's Champlain Towers Collapse NJ Dad, Daughter, Son In-Law Among Nearly 100 Missing In Miami's Champlain Towers Collapse
NJ Dad, Daughter, Son In-Law Among Nearly 100 Missing In Miami's Champlain Towers Collapse A New Jersey couple was among nearly 100 people missing Friday, the day after a 12-story building collapsed in Miami. Harry Rosenberg, his daughter Malky Weisz and husband, Benny, were still unaccounted for, Jewish Breaking News reports. The young married couple from Lakewood was on vacation and had left a neighbor with a key to bring in their mail while they were away, NBC reports. “This is a rescue operation not recovery," U.S. Congressman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) said. "People have survived for days under rubble. “I have spoken to Harry, Benny and Malky’s friend Eli…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Three Charged In $3 Million Burglary Of 50 Cent’s Bergen County Crib Three Charged In $3 Million Burglary Of 50 Cent’s Bergen County Crib
Three Charged In $3 Million Burglary Of 50 Cent’s Bergen County Crib A stolen car helped tie three ex-cons to the $3 million burglary of 50 Cent’s luxury apartment above the Hudson River, authorities said. The rapper, songwriter, TV producer and actor posted on Instagram that he was in Miami the third week of January, which law enforcement sources said afforded the thieves the opportunity. 50 – whose real name is Curtis Jackson – reported the break-in of his apartment to Cliffside Park police on Jan. 17. It “involved an estimated loss of approximately three million dollars in U.S. currency and jewelry,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday, wit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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MEADOWLANDS RACETRACK MURDERS: Jersey City Man Tipped Off Shooters, Authorities Charge MEADOWLANDS RACETRACK MURDERS: Jersey City Man Tipped Off Shooters, Authorities Charge
Meadowlands Racetrack Murders: Jersey City Man Tipped Off Shooters, Authorities Charge A fourth Jersey City man has been charged with two counts of murder for arranging the shooting deaths of two young Paterson men outside the Meadowlands Racetrack last fall, authorities said Monday. Davon Womack, 23, is accused of tipping off the shooters that Davonte Scudder, 22, and Brian Astacio, 21, were in the parking lot of the East Rutherford complex the night of Oct. 25. Womack had “noticed the victims at the complex and then communicated with the co-defendants, who then traveled to the complex parking lot,” New Jersey State Police Col. Patrick J. Callahan and Bergen County Prosecut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Unruly NJ Man With Meth Subdued With Benadryl After Biting Airline Passenger's Ear, Police Say Unruly NJ Man With Meth Subdued With Benadryl After Biting Airline Passenger's Ear, Police Say
Unruly NJ Man With Meth Subdued With Benadryl After Biting Airline Passenger's Ear, Police Say A flight from Newark to Miami was forced to make an emergency landing when a 45-year-old New Jersey man who had methamphetamine on him bit another passenger's ear and punched him in the face, authorities said. A doctor on the plane then tried to subdue John Yurkovich Jr., by giving him a shot of Benadryl on United Airlines flight 728 last Wednesday, officials told the Raleigh News & Observer. It all began when Yurkovich got up to use the bathroom, and when he sat back down in his seat he became agitated, the outlet says. "The suspect got up from his seat again to retrieve what app…

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by Cecilia Levine
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MOST WANTED: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring MOST WANTED: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring
Most Wanted: Reward Offered For Fugitive NJ Couple In Nationwide Sex-Trafficking Ring The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward – or $2,500 each -- for information leading to the arrests of a couple wanted out of New Jersey for sex-trafficking victims across state lines using “force, fraud, and/or coercion.” Mallie Monte Evans, 34, and Elizabeth Sanchez, 25, have remained on the run since a federal judge in Trenton signed a warrant for Evans’s arrest last September, authorities said. It's a reflection of the danger they post that Evans and Sanchez were being sought publicly. Sex traffickers have rarely ended up on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list. Both are considered armed and danger…

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by Jerry DeMarco