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Paroled Child Porn Collector Reoffended Right After Release: Bergen Prosecutor Paroled Child Porn Collector Reoffended Right After Release: Bergen Prosecutor
Paroled Child Porn Collector Reoffended Right After Release: Bergen Prosecutor UPDATE: A former New Jersey state DOT worker from Montvale who served a year in prison for collecting child porn faces a much longer sentence after authorities said they caught him doing it again. Robert Setnitzky, 61, was originally busted by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives with nearly 25,000 child porn files in September 2019. Rather than risk the potential outcome of a trial, the Montvale native took a plea deal in exchange for a sentence with a three-year maximum and no minimum. He was released last March and apparently was unemployed when he took a room at the Courtyard by Marri…

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UPDATE: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico UPDATE: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico
Update: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico An aging Connecticut ex-con would have to turn 90 to taste freedom again after he was sentenced for stabbing a political consultant to death and then torching his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire hit with a longtime crony from Philadelphia. The odds are stacked against George Bratsenis, 74, of Monroe, who reportedly has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer. There's also no parole in the federal prison system. Unless he’s granted a compassionate release for health reasons, Bratsenis will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained 16-year sentence approved by …

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Feds: Parole Officers Bust Pedophile Parolee From Paterson With Heroin, Gun, Drug Sales Records Feds: Parole Officers Bust Pedophile Parolee From Paterson With Heroin, Gun, Drug Sales Records
Feds: Parole Officers Bust Pedophile Parolee From Paterson With Heroin, Gun, Drug Sales Records A convicted pedophile from Paterson was charged federally after his parole officers found large amounts of cash on his bed -- and a loaded gun under it, authorities said. Jessie Mayfield, 59, also had 115 heroin folds in a zip-locking bag, a digital scale and a notebook in which he recorded the dates and times of his drug deals, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Friday. Mayfield began dealing drugs sometime after his release from state prison in November 2019, authorities said. Records show he'd served three years and eight months for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and 12-y…

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by Jerry DeMarco