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Jackpot: South Jersey Restaurant Sells Lotto Ticket That Shares $861K Prize
A lottery ticket that split a more than $860,000 jackpot was purchased at a Pemberton Township restaurant, authorities said.
The winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket was sold at Country Lakes Pub & Grill on Lakehurst Road in Browns Mills, the New Jersey Lottery said in a news release on Wednesday, Oct. 23. The winner was in the drawing on Monday, Oct. 21.
The winning numbers were 4, 9, 28, 33, and 44. The XTRA number was 3 and the Bullseye number was 4.
The ticket will split the $861,944 jackpot with a second winner bought at a liquor store in Pompton Lakes. Each ticket is …
Feds: Crooked Bookkeeper Admits Embezzling $900G From Restaurants In NJ, NY, PA (Update)
A bookkeeper from New Jersey admitted in federal court that he embezzled more than $900,000 from restaurants he worked for in the Garden State, New York and Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Richard Winter, 53, of Pompton Lakes authorized bank wire transfers from some of them, pocketed vendor payments to others and issued checks payable to cash that he then deposited into his own bank accounts, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip Sellinger said.
Winter serviced the clients' accounts payable through a company he created called Back Office Pro, a complaint on file in federal court in Newark say…
NJ Mega Millions Lottery Players Win $20K, $10K
There were three third-tier prizewinning tickets sold in New Jersey for the Friday, Oct. 28, Mega Millions drawing, according to state Lottery officials.
The players matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn winning the $10,000 prize.
One of those tickets was purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prize to $20,000.
Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:
Camden County ($20,000): 7-Eleven #10937, 1811 Chapel Ave., Cherry Hill;
Bergen County ($10,000: Krauszer’s Food Store, 383 Market St., Saddle Brook; and,
Passaic County …
Bookkeeper Charged With Embezzling $75,000 From Passaic County Tile, Grout Company
The bookkeeper at a Passaic County tile and grout company embezzled more than $75,000 from her employer, authorities charged.
Yvette Tripicchio, 47, of Hawthorne, was charged with two counts of theft in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said.
Tripicchio deposited checks from GSD Industries in Pompton Lakes into her personal bank accounts, then “tampered with company records in an attempt to hide the theft,” the prosecutor said.
Valdes didn't disclose the suspected motive.
Records show Tripicchio had taken a job as a lunch…
Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16
A 17-year-old Passaic County boy held a 16-year-old girl against her will while raping and assaulting her, authorities said.
Detectives from Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the girl, among others, hours after the attack occurred at a Pompton Lakes home last Thursday, they said.
The boy was taken into custody the next day and has remained held in the Essex County Juvenile Detention Facility in Newark since then.
A delinquency complaint charges him with kidnapping, five counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of child endangerment and …
