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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
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Suspect With Assault Rifle Sought In Newark Armed Robbery (PHOTO) Suspect With Assault Rifle Sought In Newark Armed Robbery (PHOTO)
Suspect With Assault Rifle Sought In Newark Armed Robbery (Photo) Police in Newark are attempting to locate a man who robbed a business with an assault rifle on Tuesday, March 5. At 10:46 p.m., a man walked into a business on Broadway and Bloomfield Place, approached the register and pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and announced a robbery, Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. The clerk went to the backroom, filled the bag with other bags, and gave them to suspect, who fled heading south on Broadway after entering the driver’s side of a dark-colored SUV, Fragé said. The suspect is described as a Black man, 6'" tall and weighing 2…

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by Sam Barron
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Morris County Man Broke Apart Illegal Assault Rifle, Stashed It With Family: Police Morris County Man Broke Apart Illegal Assault Rifle, Stashed It With Family: Police
Morris County Man Broke Apart Illegal Assault Rifle, Stashed It With Family: Police A Morris County man tried to hide an illegal assault rifle from police by breaking it down and giving different parts to each of his family members, authorities said. The Washington Township Police Department received reports that a Long Valley man illegally possessed an assault rifle on Thursday, Sept. 8, the department said in a release on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Officers completed a search warrant for the home where the rifle was believed to be and found that the weapon had been broken down and hidden in the home with different family members, the police department said. The man — whose iden…

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by Valerie Musson
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Harrowing Details Released In Quadruple Maryland Murder-Suicide Harrowing Details Released In Quadruple Maryland Murder-Suicide
Harrowing Details Released In Quadruple Maryland Murder-Suicide Maryland State Police have released harrowing details in the quadruple murder-suicide involving two young Pennsylvania girls, their father and his alleged accomplice. The manhunt for Robert Vicosa, 41, Tia Bynam, 35, and Vicosa's daughters, Giana, 7, and Aaminah, 6, came to a tragic end on Thursday around 2:30 p.m., MSP said in a news release. Authorities had been searching for Vicosa for several days, after he drugged and sexually assaulted his ex-wife with Bynam's help, and then fled the York County home with the two girls. Pennsylvania State Police told MSP a car matching the suspect ve…

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by Jillian Pikora & Cecilia Levine
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Police: Second Man Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15, Busted Dealing Outside His House Police: Second Man Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15, Busted Dealing Outside His House
Police: Second Man Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15, Busted Dealing Outside His House COINCIDENCE? TIP? A Paterson man accused of shooting a 15-year-old boy nearly two years ago was caught selling drugs and carrying a loaded rifle just days after another man charged in the same shooting was captured, authorities said. Detectives watched two drug deals go down Monday before seizing Isaiah Snead, 19, during a raid of his East 38th Street home, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Recovered were a “semi-automatic Hungarian FEG Assault rifle with a 75-round high-capacity drum magazine loaded with 65 rounds,” along with a bag of cocaine and 100 heroin folds, Spez…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash
Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash A South Jersey couple with an infant were caught with 700 heroin folds, an AK-47 and nearly $300,000 in drug cash, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday night. An investigation that began in Bergen County brought Musella’s investigators to the Ewing Township home of Pedro DeJesus, 28, and Frances Perez-Arias, 22. Assisted by prosecutor’s detectives and sheriff’s officers from Mercer County and Ewing police, the investigators raided the couple’s home and conducted a court-approved search on Tuesday, Musella said. “During their search, detectives located approximately 700 glas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Newark Man Sentenced To A Decade In Prison On Weapons Charge Newark Man Sentenced To A Decade In Prison On Weapons Charge
Newark Man Sentenced To A Decade In Prison On Weapons Charge A 50-year-old Newark man with an extensive history of arrests was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in federal prison for weapons offenses. As a convicted felon, Reginald Moultrie was legally barred from owning or possessing a weapon, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said in a statement. But on July 20, 2017, he was in possession of an assault rifle with a high-capacity magazine, Moultrie admitted in court. As part of a plea deal Moultrie also admitted he arranged the sale of 17 firearms between May and September 2017. His nephew, Richard Lowman, previously pleaded guilty to con…

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by Paul Milo