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Drug Kingpin From Infamous Newark Gang Learns Fate: Feds Drug Kingpin From Infamous Newark Gang Learns Fate: Feds
Drug Kingpin From Infamous Newark Gang Learns Fate: Feds A 41-year-old Newark drug trafficker was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, for his role in dealing numerous amounts of drugs and guns throughout the city, authorities said. Shaheed Blake was the last of 25 co-defendants to be sentenced,  Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna said. Blake and his other associates were members  of a Bloods-affiliated gang that called itself the “CKarter Boys," Khanna said. The organization’s leaders—Blake and Anderson Hutchinson operated a massive drug market that flooded the streets of Newark with heroin and crack cocaine 24-7, K…

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by Sam Barron
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France-Bound Passenger Found With Loaded Magazine, Handgun At Newark Airport: TSA France-Bound Passenger Found With Loaded Magazine, Handgun At Newark Airport: TSA
France-Bound Passenger Found With Loaded Magazine, Handgun At Newark Airport: TSA A Westchester County, NY man traveling to France was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, Aug. 6 after he had a gun and ammunition in his carry-on bag, authorities said. The man had a ticket to Nice, France and was arrested by Port Authority Police at Terminal B after his handgun was flagged in the checkpoint X-ray machine, the Transportation Security Administration said.  He also had a magazine loaded with five bullets, the TSA said. The federal penalty for bringing a weapon to a TSA checkpoint can cost as much as $15,000.

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by Sam Barron
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Killer Who Aimed To 'Flood Streets' Of Trenton With Heroin Gets 17-Year Minimum In Fed Pen Killer Who Aimed To 'Flood Streets' Of Trenton With Heroin Gets 17-Year Minimum In Fed Pen
Killer Who Aimed To 'Flood Streets' Of Trenton With Heroin Gets 17-Year Minimum In Fed Pen 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Jerome “Righteous" Roberts will have to see his 70th birthday before he can taste freedom again. A convicted killer who aimed to "flood the streets" of Trenton with a "motherlode" of heroin, Roberts, 53, was sentenced this week to what will be a minimum of 17 years in federal prison for his role in a drug ring that once dominated the capital city. Federal jurors had convicted Roberts, of Delran, of drug conspiracy following a three-week trial in Trenton in October 2021. U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner, in turn, sentenced the Bloods gang leader to a 245-month prison sentence t…

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by Jerry DeMarco