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NJ Shooter Convicted Of Leaving Victim For Dead As He Drove Off In His Vehicle: Prosecutor NJ Shooter Convicted Of Leaving Victim For Dead As He Drove Off In His Vehicle: Prosecutor
NJ Shooter Convicted Of Leaving Victim For Dead As He Drove Off In His Vehicle: Prosecutor A 33-year-old man has been convicted of murder, carjacking and other offenses after he shot and killed a man and then stole his car in November 2021, authorities in Atlantic County said. Jermaine Wharton, 33, of Pleasantville, first tried breaking into a witnesses car before he went over to Ivan Smith's vehicle on the 900 Block of North Main Street around 9:20 a.m. Nov. 13, 2021, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. That's when Wharton shot Smith then drove off to Millville in his car, leaving him to die on the ground, the ACPO said. Wharton was found guilty of t…

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by Jon Craig
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Armed Carjackings Reported In Cape May County Armed Carjackings Reported In Cape May County
Armed Carjackings Reported In Cape May County Police in Lower and Middle townships are investigating separate armed carjackings. The first incident was reported to the Lower Township Police Department at 3:36 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16 when officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Irving Avenue. The suspects displayed a handgun, Lower Township police said. In the first case, the victim refused to hand over her keys and the suspects fled the area in a gray four-door sedan. At 4:34 p.m., Middle Township Police were dispatched to the 2900 block of Route 9. The victim handed over his keys at gunpoint and the suspects fled in the stole…

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by Jon Craig
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Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal
Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Authorities revealed on Monday that one of several men who carjacked and abducted a couple in Paterson last week was actually captured in Bloomfield later that night. City resident Juan Montero-Pena, 30, was among several men who accosted the 38-year-old Paterson woman and her 47-year-old male companion from Long Island in the area of Jackson Street and Washington Avenue around 8 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 1, authorities announced on Dec. 5. Bloomfield police located the vehicle and captured Montero-Pena in the area of Arlington and Watsessing avenues in their town shortly after 9:30 p.m., Pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Shock Spreads After Pizza Deliveryman Killed In Botched Philadelphia Carjacking Shock Spreads After Pizza Deliveryman Killed In Botched Philadelphia Carjacking
Shock Spreads After Pizza Deliveryman Killed In Botched Philadelphia Carjacking Support is surging for the family of a pizza deliveryman killed in what authorities are calling a botched carjacking in Philadelphia. Enyury A. Rodriguez's loved ones identified him as the victim of the Thursday, Oct. 20 incident on the 2700 block of Swain Street around 8:30 p.m. More than $14,300 had been raised for his family on a GoFundMe page as of Saturday, Oct. 29. "Words cannot describe the sadness we all feel, the unbearable pain in the eyes of his father and his family," reads the page launched by Katherine Karafousia. "We will all miss the happy, hard-working, and good-heart…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Woman Carjacked While Waiting For Air Pump At South Jersey Wawa Woman Carjacked While Waiting For Air Pump At South Jersey Wawa
Woman Carjacked While Waiting For Air Pump At South Jersey Wawa A woman was carjacked while she waited at the air pump at a Wawa in South Jersey, authorities said. On Saturday, Oct. at about 2:30 p.m.,  Medford Township Police Department responded to a report of a stolen motor vehicle at the Wawa at 257 Route 70. Three suspects, dressed in dark clothing, approached the victim while she was waiting in the rear of the building. One of the three male suspects, described to be approximately 140 pounds in his late teens to early twenties, pulled the victim from her vehicle. She was not hurt, police said. He was later observed operating her 2015 Black N…

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by Jon Craig
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Man Robbed, Carjacked At South Jersey Bank ATM Man Robbed, Carjacked At South Jersey Bank ATM
Man Robbed, Carjacked At South Jersey Bank ATM Police are on the lookout for two men who robbed and carjacked another man early Tuesday, Oct. 4. At 1:54 a.m., Cherry Hill police responded to the Republic Bank at 457 Haddonfield Road. The victim, who was making an ATM transaction, stated he was approached on the parking lot by two male suspects who had exited a parked vehicle. One of the men brandished a handgun and then struck the victim in the head knocking him to the ground. The male suspects then stole the victim’s car keys and fled in the victim’s 2018 white Hyundai Sonata, with New Jersey license plate N93PJH. The victim could on…

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by Jon Craig
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US Marshals Round Up 65 Fugitives Including High-Profile Cases In NJ, Philly 'Rodeo' US Marshals Round Up 65 Fugitives Including High-Profile Cases In NJ, Philly 'Rodeo'
US Marshals Round Up 65 Fugitives Including High-Profile Cases In NJ, Philly 'Rodeo' A major sweep of fugitives including suspected gang members led to 65 arrests including high-profile cases in South Jersey and Philadelphia. These fugitives were wanted out of Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, and Camden counties, as well as other states but were located in these four counties. During "Operation Rodeo" the District of New Jersey and the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force used its multi-jurisdictional investigative authority and fugitive task force network to arrest fugitives wanted on charges including homicide, sex assault, aggravated assault, robbery, carjackin…

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by Jon Craig
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Carjacker Who Victimized Mom, Daughter In Philadelphia Faces Federal Charges (VIDEO) Carjacker Who Victimized Mom, Daughter In Philadelphia Faces Federal Charges (VIDEO)
Carjacker Who Victimized Mom, Daughter In Philadelphia Faces Federal Charges (Video) A 20-year-old Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for carjacking a mother and daughter last month, authorities announced. Amir Harvey held a black handgun at the woman and her teenage daughter as they were getting ready to go to school on the 8900 block of Maxwell Place around 615 a.m. on Sept. 19, United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said. The woman had started her car using a cell phone application on her cell phone and, as they walked outside to the driveway, they were approached by Harvey, authorities said. Harvey took the keys to the vehicle out of the victim’s purs…

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by Cecilia Levine
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TERRIFYING MOMENT: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat TERRIFYING MOMENT: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat
Terrifying Moment: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat The rampant crime wave involving stolen vehicles took a terrifying turn when a Lyndhurst mother was rushed by two carjackers as she pulled her SUV into her garage with her child in the back seat. Three bandits in all were "casing the area targeting high-end vehicles" in an Audi stolen out of Elizabeth a short time before the frightening incident on Sanford Avenue around noon Thursday, Sept. 15, Lyndhurst Police Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. "One of them forcefully opened the driver's side door," Auteri said. "He ordered the woman out of the vehicle. "However, we believe he was startle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Armed Carjacker In NJ Motel Lot Drags Woman, Fires Shot: Feds Armed Carjacker In NJ Motel Lot Drags Woman, Fires Shot: Feds
Armed Carjacker In NJ Motel Lot Drags Woman, Fires Shot: Feds Federal authorities have seized a carjacker who they said dragged a woman from a car at gunpoint, fired a shot in the air and pointed the weapon at the man she was with outside a South Brunswick motel. Jashawn Robinson, 21, has remained in custody since his arrest late last September near his Queens, NY, apartment, records show. The carjacking had occurred nearly a month earlier and Robinson was still driving the stolen vehicle, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Robinson “repeatedly tried to get away, including hitting parked cars and almost hitting law enforcement per…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! Newark Fugitive Wanted In Carjacking Of Rockland Driver In Clifton Captured In Asbury GOTCHA! Newark Fugitive Wanted In Carjacking Of Rockland Driver In Clifton Captured In Asbury
Gotcha! Newark Fugitive Wanted In Carjacking Of Rockland Driver In Clifton Captured In Asbury A Newark man accused of carjacking a Rockland County driver in Clifton was ordered held by a judge after he was captured on the beach in Asbury Park, authorities said. The 27-year-old victim from Pearl River, NY, was hospitalized after being assaulted outside a medical building on Broad Street just off eastbound Route 3 the night of Aug. 20, they said. Detectives from Clifton obtained an arrest warrant for by Zahir Christmas, 37, who was captured at the Fourth Avenue beach in Asbury shortly before dawn on Aug. 28, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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WILD CHASE: Masked Carjackers Ram Police Cruiser, Civilian Vehicles On Route 46 WILD CHASE: Masked Carjackers Ram Police Cruiser, Civilian Vehicles On Route 46
Wild Chase: Masked Carjackers Ram Police Cruiser, Civilian Vehicles On Route 46 Three carjackers were captured following a wild chase in which they rammed a Wayne police cruiser and several civilian vehicles on Route 46, authorities said. It began shortly after Montville police issued an alert for two vehicles, one of which had just been taken by thieves in ski masks, shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. A short time later, the masked bandits approached a Porsche at the Starbucks on Route 23 just south of the "spaghetti bowl" intersection in Wayne near Willowbrook Mall, Wayne Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. They abandoned their attempt after discovering it occupied,…

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by Jerry DeMarco