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'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office 'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office
'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office Police in an Atlantic County town are investigating cases of what's called "check washing," authorities said. Hammonton Police and the U.S. Postal Inspectors are investigating financial crimes after mail and checks were removed from a mailbox outside the town's post office, the police department said in a Facebook post on Thursday, Feb. 29. The mailbox was tampered with over Presidents' Day weekend. "Check washing" is when thieves take letters from mailboxes and look for signed checks inside them. Thieves then change the amount of money that was written on a check and cash it. Hammonton po…

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by Chris Spiker
Politics
Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election
Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election State authorities announced a bunch of new election fraud charges on Wednesday against Paterson’s council president along with allegations against his wife and campaign manager, as well. Alex Mendez, 48, has been awaiting trial in a case, stemming from 2020 council races, that has undergone a series of one delay after another. The contests were conducted entirely by mail-in ballots as COVID was spreading. The new charges involved what the attorney general described on Oct. 25 as a hare-brained plot to steal ballots from mailboxes outside people’s homes, toss out those that didn’t vote for…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
New Rochelle Park Police Chief Nabs Thieves Who Bought 61 Money Orders For $55,000 In One Day New Rochelle Park Police Chief Nabs Thieves Who Bought 61 Money Orders For $55,000 In One Day
New Rochelle Park Police Chief Nabs Thieves Who Bought 61 Money Orders For $55,000 In One Day Two out-of-state thieves who illegally collected nearly $55,000 by purchasing 61 money orders at post offices throughout New Jersey in a single day were thwarted by newly-appointed Rochelle Park Police Chief Dean Pinto, authorities said. Pinto, who officially becomes chief this Saturday, was waiting on line at the borough post office Thursday when he saw one of the suspects buy a $1,000 money order with an apparent gift card. Appearing surprised that the transaction went through, the suspect requested another $1,000 money order. Pinto discreetly notified detectives, who stopped the pair. …

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by Jerry DeMarco