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Man Wanted For Unlawfully Possessing Weapon In Somerset County: Prosecutor Man Wanted For Unlawfully Possessing Weapon In Somerset County: Prosecutor
Man Wanted For Unlawfully Possessing Weapon In Somerset County: Prosecutor A 37-year-old man is at large after he unlawfully possessed a handgun in Somerset County in June 2021, authorities said. James Schoenknecht was named Somerset County's Fugitive of the Month for August by the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office. He has remained at large since he was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun and possession of a prohibited weapon or device since an incident that occurred on June 26, 2021 in Sound Bound Brook. Schoenknecht is believed to be in Cranford or Naples, Fla, authorities said. Anyone with information on Schoenknecht's whereabouts should contac…

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by Sam Barron
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UPDATE: Gunman Killed In Confrontation With Police Was Married To Ocean Prosecutor's Detective UPDATE: Gunman Killed In Confrontation With Police Was Married To Ocean Prosecutor's Detective
Update: Gunman Killed In Confrontation With Police Was Married To Ocean Prosecutor's Detective UPDATE: Authorities officially identified a 39-year-old man armed with a semi-automatic rifle who was shot and killed by police in Manchester Township last week as the husband of an Ocean County prosecutor's detective. Shannon “Shane” Rose, 39, encountered police responding to a 911 call on Elizabeth Avenue in the Ocean County township shortly before 8:30 p.m. Dec. 6, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. Two of them fired their service weapons, fatally wounding Rose, the attorney general said. "A firearm was recovered near the subject," Platkin added. It was reportedly an AR-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Retired NJ Officer Killed Teen TikTok Daughter's Maryland Stalker — But Now She Has Another Retired NJ Officer Killed Teen TikTok Daughter's Maryland Stalker — But Now She Has Another
Retired NJ Officer Killed Teen TikTok Daughter's Maryland Stalker — But Now She Has Another While former New Jersey police officer Rob Majury has been cleared in shooting his daughter's Maryland stalker dead, 15-year-old Ava Majury is due back in court to testify against another. Ava had been on the popular video-sharing app for nearly two years when she noticed one user, EricJustin111, trying to get her attention in the comment section, the New York Times reports. Then, she saw his name in her messages on Instagram, Snapchat and other virtual games. She sold him a few explicit photos over Snapchat for $5 a pop, in hopes of getting him off her back, she said. But last July, Eric …

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by Cecilia Levine
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This One Rivals Madoff: $1.8B Ponzi Scheme Victimizes Hundreds Of NJ Investors, Authorities Say This One Rivals Madoff: $1.8B Ponzi Scheme Victimizes Hundreds Of NJ Investors, Authorities Say
This One Rivals Madoff: $1.8B Ponzi Scheme Victimizes Hundreds Of NJ Investors, Authorities Say Hundreds of New Jersey investors were among those scammed in a $1.8 billion Ponzi scheme that authorities said was orchestrated by a trio of partners in a Manhattan-based advisory firm who projected an “aura of success” while hemorrhaging losses. Instead of securing returns for clients, the founder and CEO of GPB Capital Holdings, David Gentile, and his associates used investments to cover shortfalls and pay for private jets, a Ferrari and other personal luxuries, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Victims from the Garden State alone pumped more than $70.4 million into the s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'QUEEN OF SUSPENSE': Mary Higgins Clark, Best-Selling Novelist From NJ, Dead At 92 'QUEEN OF SUSPENSE': Mary Higgins Clark, Best-Selling Novelist From NJ, Dead At 92
'Queen OF Suspense': Mary Higgins Clark, Best-Selling Novelist From NJ, Dead At 92 Best-selling suspense novel author and former New Jersey resident Mary Higgins Clark died on Friday in Naples, Florida of natural causes. She was 92. A Bronx, N.Y. native, Higgins moved to Bergen County and even set many of her works in the Garden State. She had more than 50 novels published, 40 of which were bestsellers, and millions were sold across the U.S.  Simon & Schuster, her publisher, announced her death Friday, affectionately remembering her as the "Queen of Suspense." "Nobody ever bonded more completely with her readers than Mary did," her longtime editor Michael Korda…

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by Cecilia Levine