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Paterson PD Works Both Sides Of Street, Seize Raw Heroin, Cocaine, Shotgun
Paterson police raided two homes directly across the street from one another, arresting two ex-cons and five alleged buyers while seizing raw and packaged heroin, cocaine and a sawed-off shotgun.
Members of the Paterson Narcotics Division also seized $568 in suspected proceeds during the simultaneous Monday afternoon strikes, Police Director Jerry Speziale said.
The primary arrests involved two men with criminal histories: Filiberto Feliciano, 65, who lives in one of the Cedar Street homes, and Carlos Torres, 43, of Summer Street.
Both were charged with drug and weapons offenses after dete…
Bergen, Somerset Businessmen Con Bank Out Of $17 Million, Feds Charge
A former Bergen County marble and granite wholesaler and his Somerset County partner cooked the books while also posing as customers as part of a $17 million bank fraud, federal authorities allege.
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark allowed the release Monday afternoon of Rajendra Kankariya, 61, of Tenafly, who was the now-defunct company’s president, and his chief financial officer, 44-year-old Rakesh Sethi of Basking Ridge, following their arrests by the FBI.
Property secured bonds of $500,000 for each of them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
Kankariya and Sethi pulled the scam fr…
