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Overnight Fire Displaces South Jersey Family Of 5 From Apartment, Damages Business: Police
A family of five from Camden County was displaced by an overnight apartment fire, authorities said. Businesses below the apartment, where the fire began, also were damaged, Gloucester Township police said. On Wednesday, July 3, at approximately 1 a.m., Gloucester Township police were dispatched to 32 N. Black Horse Pike in Blackwood for a report of a structure fire. Arriving officers found heavy smoke coming from the building which contained several commercial businesses downstairs as well as an occupied upstairs residential apartment. All occupants were quickly evacuated and there w…
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NJ Cop Charged In Hit-Run Crash That Left Teen Bicyclist Critical, Prosecutor Says
A New Jersey police officer who has been on the force for just under a decade has been charged in a hit-and-run crash that critically injured an 18-year-old bicyclist last month, authorities said. Christopher Bucceroni, 28, a Gloucester Township police officer from West Deptford, was off-duty and driving his personally-owned vehicle, a 2020 Toyota RAV4, when he struck the 18-year-old bicyclist around 2:30 a.m. June 20, on Erial Road and Blackwood-Clementon Road, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay said alongside Bucceroni's chief, David Harkins. Bucceroni, a nine-…
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Philly Man Nabbed For DWI After Chase In South Jersey: Police
A Philadelphia man was charged with driving while intoxicated after a police chase in Camden County, authorities said. On Thursday, May 18, at approximately 7:10 pm, Gloucester Township police were alerted to a possible impaired driver operating a small red sport utility vehicle with heavy front end damage, police said. An additional caller reported that the driver struck a vehicle on Bethany Lane, they said. As officers were dispatched to the area, additional calls were received for the vehicle being operated recklessly. Police said they found the vehicle near the Black Horse Pike …
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South Jersey Mom Learns Her Fate After Suffocating Baby 'Getting In Way Of Affair'
A New Jersey mom of three has learned her fate after being convicted of suffocating her toddler who prosecutors say she killed in part for interfering with her affair. Heather Reynolds, 45, of Sicklerville, was sentenced by Judge Gwendolyn Blue on Tuesday, Nov. 15 to life in prison without parole for the murder of her 17-month-old son Axel on May 10, 2018, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay announced. Heather Reynolds and baby AxelHeather Knecht Reynolds Heather ReynoldsFacebook/ Heather Knecht Reynolds The judge also sentenced Reynolds to a concurrent 8-year prison term for …
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NJ Murder Suspect Arrested After SWAT Standoff: Prosecutor
A 23-year-old murder suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of another man his age after barricading himself in a South Jersey home over the weekend, authorities announced. Ronin Austin Nevels has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Isaiah Shaw on Friday, Sept. 30, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Lindenwold Police Chief Michael P. McCarthy Jr. said. Shaw of Winslow Township was found with gunshot wounds on Egg Harbor Road around 9:50 p.m., and pronounced dead at the scene, MacAulay said. On Saturday, Oct. 1, Nevels barricaded himself in a home…
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NJ Mom Convicted Of Suffocating Baby For Getting In Way Of Her Affair: Prosecutor
A Camden County jury has convicted a mother of three in the suffocation of her toddler who prosecutors say she killed in part because he was getting in the way of her affair. Heather Reynolds, 44, of Sicklerville, was convicted of murder and additional charges connected to the May 2018 death of her 17-month-old son, Axel, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay announced. Reynolds also was accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill an ex-boyfriend who spoke to police about the case. She was acquitted on that conspiracy charge. On Thursday, July 28, a jury returned a guilty verdict…
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'For Profit' Pool Party Shut Down By South Jersey Police
Police broke up a party of more than 100 people that was a "for profit" enterprise, authorities said. Homeowner Quade Houston, 31, of Poplar Avenue in Blackwood was charged with property and zoning violations, Gloucester Township police said. Beverly Houston, 57, the party's organizer was charged with maintaining and nuisance and a noise and zoning violation, police said. 100 Block of Poplar Avenue, Blackwood, NJ 08012 The party was crashed by police on Sunday July 18, at 9:22 p.m., in the Blenheim section of Gloucester Township. Officers found numerous vehicles parked throughout the nei…
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Boy Who OD'd On Bus Had Been Cleaning Uncle's Fentanyl Paraphernalia: Prosecutor
A 35-year-old man from Camden County has been arrested for causing the fentanyl-overdose death of his 12-year-old nephew, authorities said. The boy had been directed by Troy Nokes, 35, of Blackwood, to clean fentanyl paraphernalia before he passed out on a school bus on Jan. 24, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Gloucester Twp. Police Chief David Harkins. Life-saving measures were performed by the school nurse until EMS arrived and took the child to the hospital. He died of his injuries eight days later. The child lived at a home in Blackwood, where Nok…
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Serial NJ Bank Robber Who Served 18 Years Headed Back To Fed Pen For At Least 16 More
A convicted bank robber from Camden who just couldn’t stop is headed back to federal prison for more than 16 years. Anthony L. Livingston, 50, robbed a PNC Bank in Gloucester Township on July 14, 2018 (photos above), a day after he’d been released after serving more than 18 years in federal prison for robbing eight South Jersey banks in 2000 and 2001, authorities said. Ten days after the Gloucester holdup, Livingston tried to recruit a homeless man to rob another PNC branch, this one in Stratford, they said. Livingston “instructed the man on how to rob the bank, gave him a demand note to s…
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Hit-Run Driver Killed In Head-On Crash While Fleeing Police In South Jersey
A driver was killed in a head-on crash with three other vehicles after fleeing police following a hit-run accident in South Jersey, authorities said Monday. Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said his office was investigating the Gloucester County incident, as required under state law and his own office's guidelines, because police were involved. Gloucester Township police who were among those responding to a hit-and-run crash began pursuing the fleeing vehicle but pulled back shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, Bruck said. The driver was later involved in a head-on cash with thr…
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Spear-Carrying South Jersey Man, With Bear Repellent, Subdued By Taser, Police Say
Police tasered a man who was carrying bear repellent while swinging a large spear at motorists, Camden County authorities said. Officers subdued the suspect, who allegedly was waving the metal pole and pepper spray, just before sunrise on Saturday, Gloucester Township police said. Police officers ultimately tasered the "man in crisis" when he refused to comply, according to a statement posted on Facebook. Township resident Robert Anastasi, 54, is accused of screaming at vehicles along Sicklerville Road, police said. Several patrol cars were used to block the man from traff…
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Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, Pot Seized In Camden Bust, NJ State Police Say
Authorities seized 36 pounds of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and marijuana in a recent South Jersey drug-dealing bust. Four people were arrested after authorities seized more than $350,000 in cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and marijuana as well as nearly $51,000 cash, a stolen handgun and three vehicles, state police said. The arrests in Camden and Gloucester Township came after a 17-month investigation involving local, state, county and federal law enforcement authorities. Warranted searches were made by police on March 30 at a home in Gloucester Township and three other residences in Camde…
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: 4-Alarm Fire Destroys Howard Johnson Inn, Sends Guests Scrambling In Camden County
A massive four-alarm fire destroyed a Howard Johnson Express Inn on Black Horse Pike in Camden County overnight, authorities said. Fortunately, all the hotel's guests and staff escaped without injury, police in Gloucester Township said. The blaze broke out about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Howard Johnson Inn at 832 North Black Horse Pike, initial reports said. A bus was brought to the hotel to temporarily shelter guests and staff who were displaced. This is a developing news story. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
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Authorities: NJ Contractor Installs Mirrors To Spy On Girls In Middle School Bathroom
A peeping Tom installed mirrors so he could spy on girls in the bathroom stalls at a South Jersey middle school, authorities charged. Staffers caught contractor Gregory Mahley, 51, of West Deptford peeking through an air conditioning vent at the Glen Landing Middle School, police in Gloucester Township said. That's when they discovered that mirrors had been installed on the interior doors of the stalls in one of the girl’s bathrooms. Police were called and Mahley was arrested on invasion of privacy and child endangerment charges. Mahley -- who was sent to the Camden County Jail -- has wor…
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Police Sink 300-Person South Jersey Pool Party
South Jersey police sank a huge "for-profit" pool party that snubbed the state's COVID-19 restrictions Sunday. The rowdy, backyard Sicklerville party featuring an in-ground pool attracted about 300 people. But it also came with a price -- a cover charge of $100 to $150 apiece -- and a risk of contracting coronavirus, according to Gloucester Township police. Homeowner Lionel Mincey, 56, of Jarvis Road was charged with maintaining a nuisance, a disorderly persons offense and issued summonses for noise, littering and zoning violations, police said. Twenty-five parking tickets were issued and …
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Police Bust Homeowner, Promoter Who Threw Bumpin' South Jersey Pool Party
Authorities in South Jersey have released footage of a massive party where hundreds of people were seen without masks and not social distancing. Jeffrey Davis, 31, had been warned against holding the for-profit Sicklerville party due to potential COVID-19 and emergency order violations, Gloucester Township police said. Still, nearly 250 people paid a cover fee and showed up to his Prospect Court home last Sunday for a backyard bash, police said. Police responded to the same house last month on similar complaints, they said. Davis and the party promoter, Marheem Miller, 28, o…
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