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Riverton Man Sentenced For Deadly Stabbing At Mount Laurel Motel, Prosecutors Say Riverton Man Sentenced For Deadly Stabbing At Mount Laurel Motel, Prosecutors Say
Riverton Man Sentenced For Deadly Stabbing At Mount Laurel Motel, Prosecutors Say A Riverton man will spend up to two decades in prison for stabbing a man to death at a Mount Laurel motel, authorities said. Taylor Perkins, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in state prison, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw said in a news release on Friday, Oct. 25. He was found guilty in the death of 36-year-old Michael Jefferies of Mount Laurel. Mount Laurel police responded to a report of two men fighting at the Rodeway Inn on Route 73 at around 10 a.m. on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023. Officers found Jefferies' body on the ground near a stairwell and&nbs…

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by Chris Spiker
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Man Convicted In Deadly South Jersey Motel Stabbing Man Convicted In Deadly South Jersey Motel Stabbing
Man Convicted In Deadly South Jersey Motel Stabbing A 30-year-old man has been convicted in a deadly stabbing at a South Jersey motel. After deliberating for approximately five hours, a Superior Court jury last week found Taylor Perkins, of Riverton, guilty of manslaughter, eluding, theft by unlawful taking, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon in the April 20, 2023 stabbing in Mount Laurel, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said. Mount Laurel police were called to the Rodeway Inn on Route 73 in Mount Laurel around 10 a.m. on reports of a fight when they found the body of …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Philadelphia Man Gets 18 Years Behind Bars For Attempted NJ Sex Attack Philadelphia Man Gets 18 Years Behind Bars For Attempted NJ Sex Attack
Philadelphia Man Gets 18 Years Behind Bars For Attempted NJ Sex Attack A 54-year-old Philadelphia man ∑as sentenced to 18 years in New Jersey state prison for trying to sexually assault a woman walking along a Burlington County roadway, authorities said. The woman in her 50's was walking along Route 73 in Mount Laurel the afternoon of June 6. 2019, when she was grabbed by Donald Cramer Jr., then dragged into a wooded area near the I-295 northbound exit ramp, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said. Local resident John Bishop was driving and witnessed the abduction, Coffina said. Bishop stopped his car on the shoulder of the road where h…

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by Nicole Acosta
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DWI Nutley Driver Gets Decade In Prison For 100 MPH Crash That Killed Howell Man, 34 DWI Nutley Driver Gets Decade In Prison For 100 MPH Crash That Killed Howell Man, 34
DWI Nutley Driver Gets Decade In Prison For 100 MPH Crash That Killed Howell Man, 34 A 26-year-old man from Essex County was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after admitting he was driving drunk and speeding when he rear-ended a car in South Jersey, killing the driver in 2018, authorities said. William Dunbar of Nutley pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in exchange for the prison term last January, according to a statement from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. Dunbar was speeding 100 miles an hour when he slammed into a car driven by Christopher Pappas, 34, of Howell, on Route 73 near Church Road in Mount Laurel on Aug. 19, 2018. The force of the impa…

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by Jon Craig