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Veteran NJ Corrections Officer Daniel Sincavage Killed In Crash With Tree: Report Veteran NJ Corrections Officer Daniel Sincavage Killed In Crash With Tree: Report
Veteran NJ Corrections Officer Daniel Sincavage Killed In Crash With Tree: Report A veteran New Jersey corrections officer was killed last week when his car left the road, struck a tree and caught fire, according to NJ Advance Media.  Daniel Sincavage, 41, of Rio Grande, was driving from one part of the Southern State Correctional Facility to another when the fatal crash occurred on Route 47, a PBA union leader told the outlet. New Jersey State Police previously said the crash occurred on May 19 in Maurice River Township. “He was very loved and respected,” PBA Local 105 Vice President Michael Gallagher said of the 20-year senior corrections officer. “He made a positive…

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by Jon Craig
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Off-Duty NJ Corrections Officer Critically Injured Helping In I-195 Crash Off-Duty NJ Corrections Officer Critically Injured Helping In I-195 Crash
Off-Duty NJ Corrections Officer Critically Injured Helping In I-195 Crash Support is surging for a New Jersey corrections officer who was critically injured while stopping to help at the scene of an Interstate 195 crash. Jason Rawa was headed eastbound when he saw a vehicle on the westbound side swerve to avoid a couch that had fallen off a vehicle in Hamilton, State Police said. Rawa stopped on the median to help the driver of the vehicle that went into the guardrail when another car struck the couch, crashing into the first vehicle -- pushing it into Rawa, police said. The officer was hospitalized in stable but critical condition. More than $17,700 had been r…

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by Cecilia Levine
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HERO (VIDEO): Correctional Officer Grabs Suicidal Man In Mid-Jump From Jersey Bridge HERO (VIDEO): Correctional Officer Grabs Suicidal Man In Mid-Jump From Jersey Bridge
Hero (Video): Correctional Officer Grabs Suicidal Man In Mid-Jump From Jersey Bridge A suicidal man determined to jump to his death had just let go of the railing on a bridge over the Raritan River when a state correctional officer came running and grabbed him, dramatic cellphone video shows. Officer Faustino Saucedo of Perth Amboy was off duty and headed to pick up his wife when he saw the commotion on the Edison bridge between Woodbridge and Sayreville shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday. The man was sitting on the edge of the Route 9 span, which runs parallel to the Driscoll Bridge. Saucedo -- who works at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel -- parked his car an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death
Authorities Suspend NJ Corrections Officer Involved In Counterprotest Mocking Floyd Death State authorities said they’ve suspended a corrections officer who participated in the recording of what they called a "hateful and disappointing video" in which one man kneeled on the neck of another during a counter-protest to a "Black Lives Matter" march. In videos of the incident that continued to spread Wednesday, police-escorted protesters marching down a Franklin Township street in Gloucester County on Monday pass a group of men reenacting George Floyd’s death on a private property stacked with firewood for sale. A pickup truck bears an American flag and a “Trump 2020” banner, while …

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by Jerry DeMarco