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Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison
An ex-con from Hudson County is headed back to the big house for using drones to smuggle tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix following his release. Jason “Juice” Arteaga-Loayza, 30, of Jersey City must serve out just about all of a plea-bargained 3½ years because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Arteaga-Loayza and three other men had the smuggling operation going for several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, authorities said. The officers also found a cel…
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Feds: Unregistered Firearms, Fake FBI, DEA Badges Found In Raid Of Rockland Deputy Mayor's Home
The deputy mayor of a Rockland County village who's already facing state charges for a trove of unregistered guns found at his home was charged by federal authorities with having a collection of phony badges and ID cards that identify him as working for the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies, records show. Investigators reported a startling discovery when they showed up with a search warrant last week at the home of Brian Downey, a 47-year-old Republican who was elected deputy mayor of the village of Airmont in 2019. Downey was taken into custody after no fewer than 16 unregistere…
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Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies
Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, a reputed Genovese Crime Family boss who became a leader and innovator in the trash hauling industry in New Jersey, Rockland and Westchester, died Monday following complications from COVID-19. Franco, 85, who’d recently lived in the Bears Cove townhouse development in Ramsey, made his name in the waste industry over a five-decade career. He designed and built the country’s first materials recovery facility and New Jersey’s first transfer station, among other projects, and led the charge that produced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Rockland town of Clark…
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! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont
U.S. Marshals in Vermont captured a Jersey City fugitive wanted for smuggling tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix using drones. Jason “Juice” Loayza, 29, was scheduled for a first federal court appearance appearance Wednesday in Burlington following his capture on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The smuggling operation lasted several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, Carpenito said. They found the bolts removed to a rooftop hatch, along with an inmate with …
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Federal Inmate At Burlington County Prison Contracts Coronavirus
New Jersey's first federal prison inmate has tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said. The agency said an inmate at Fort Dix Correctional Institution in Burlington County tested positive for the virus on Tuesday., according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. There are almost 3,000 inmates at the low-security federal prison. One corrections worker at the Fort Dix prison has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the bureau’s website. Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security facility in South Jersey where more than 1,000 individuals are incarcerated, has not…
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Reports: Imprisoned Star Of Netflix 'Tiger King' Series In Coronavirus Quarantine
Imprisoned "Tiger King" documentary star Joe Maldonado-Passage -- also known as "Joe Exotic" -- was in what multiple sources reported is coronavirus quarantine after being transferred to a secure medical center in Texas. Maldonado-Passage, 57, was listed at the Fort Worth FMC, a medical center operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, records show. His husband, Dillon Passage, told reporters that Maldonado-Passage was in coronavirus quarantine because inmates at the jail where he was being held tested positive for the virus. The former zoo owner was convicted last April of trying to hire …
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Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus
Two more inmates at the Bergen County Jail recently tested positive for the coronavirus, one of whom was hospitalized and another who was receiving medical care in an isolation unit at the lockup, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday. The 40-year-old Salvadoran national in ICE custody and a 54-year-old county inmate brought the total number of inmates who tested positive to three, the sheriff said. The first positive case, a 31-year-old ICE detainee, was released by federal authorities last Thursday, he said. The 40-year-old detainee was sent for medical evaluation after displaying symptoms…