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18-Year-Old Killed Stepdad In Heated Argument Over Dog Crate In South Jersey: Complaint 18-Year-Old Killed Stepdad In Heated Argument Over Dog Crate In South Jersey: Complaint
18-Year-Old Killed Stepdad In Heated Argument Over Dog Crate In South Jersey: Complaint "I'm hurt that I had to do that," is what an 18-year-old New Jersey man was captured telling his mother after fatally shooting his stepdad over an argument about cleaning a dog crate, according to police documents obtained by Daily Voice. Jah’lyll X. Lawrence, 18, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Joe Williams at a home in Upper Deerfield Township, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office. Lawrence also faces weapons offenses. He was being held in Cumberland County jail. The pair were arguing over the crate before Williams began choking Lawrence, according t…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
North Jersey Man Captured By NJSP After Shooting Dad, 70, Killing Two Family Dogs: Authorities North Jersey Man Captured By NJSP After Shooting Dad, 70, Killing Two Family Dogs: Authorities
North Jersey Man Captured By Njsp After Shooting Dad, 70, Killing Two Family Dogs: Authorities A 34-year-old North Jersey man was captured by State Police after shooting his 70-year-old father and killing two family dogs, authorities said. Donald Simpson was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot multiple times at his home on County Road 628 in Sussex County's Wantage Township shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Charles Marchan said. Responding NJSP troopers also found two dogs dead of multiple gunshot wounds, the sergeant said. Donald Simpson was airlifted to Morristown Medical Center. Meanwhile, state troopers searched various areas, i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Gas Attendant Robbed At Gunpoint At Garden State Parkway Service Area: State Police Gas Attendant Robbed At Gunpoint At Garden State Parkway Service Area: State Police
Gas Attendant Robbed At Gunpoint At Garden State Parkway Service Area: State Police A gas station attendant was robbed of his phone and $500 at gunpoint along the Garden State Parkway, authorities said. Troopers responded to an armed robbery at about 6:50 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 on the Garden State Parkway south, Colonia Service Area – Shell Gas Station in Woodbridge Township, according to Detective I Jeffrey Lebron, a New Jersey State Police spokesman. While parked alongside the Shell pump, a black male and black female exited the vehicle and entered the Dunkin Donuts, while the driver and other passenger, both black males, remained in the vehicle, Lebron said. Upon…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Philly Ex-Con Forced Captive Girls Into Prostitution At NJ Hotels: Indictment Philly Ex-Con Forced Captive Girls Into Prostitution At NJ Hotels: Indictment
Philly Ex-Con Forced Captive Girls Into Prostitution At NJ Hotels: Indictment An ex-con who was captured after a 15-year-old victim escaped from a South Jersey hotel room was indicted on a host of charges that include human trafficking, promoting prostitution and sexually assaulting minors, authorities announced on Thursday. Nieem Johnson, 40, whose last known address was in Philadelphia, was arrested in Atlantic City last Aug. 31 following a months-long state investigation, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. A second victim was rescued during the arrest, Platkin said in a Jan. 18 release. “The allegations in the indictment – holding two victims in a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Struck By Vehicle, Killed In South Jersey Pedestrian Struck By Vehicle, Killed In South Jersey
Pedestrian Struck By Vehicle, Killed In South Jersey A pedestrian was hit and killed while crossing Route 40 in Atlantic County, authorities said. State troopers responded to a crash at 1113 Harding Highway in Buena just before 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office announced. Investigators said a black 2017 Hyundai was driving east on Route 40 before hitting a pedestrian who was crossing the road. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the crash scene. The victim has not been identified yet. It's unclear if the driver stayed at the scene or if any charges have been filed. The crash investigations unit for th…

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by Chris Spiker
Obituaries
Details Released In Parkway Crash That Killed Monmouth U Student Returning From Work Shift Details Released In Parkway Crash That Killed Monmouth U Student Returning From Work Shift
Madison Alfano Garden State Parkway Car Crash Daily Voice has obtained details about the crash that killed an 18-year-old Monmouth University student last week. Madison Alfano of Staten Island, NY, lost control of her car and hit the driver's side of another vehicle on the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway in Sayreville around 7:50 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, New Jersey State Police  Trooper Troy McNair said. Alfano's car went into another lane and she was hit by an oncoming pickup near mile marker 125.6, just south of the exit for Route 9 and New Jersey Route 35, McNair said. Alfano was rushed to a hospital and she was pronounced…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
Couple Killed In Parkway Crash With Snowplow Couple Killed In Parkway Crash With Snowplow
Couple Killed In Parkway Crash With Snowplow A man and woman from Lakewood were killed after crashing into a snowplow truck on the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County, authorities said. State police said an SUV driven by 29-year-old Eliyahu Naydavoud was heading north on the parkway in Tinton Falls around 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 15.  A snowplow truck was also traveling north and tried to turn into an emergency vehicle U-turn area near mile marker 104.2. Naydavoud's SUV crashed into the side of the snowplow. He and 30-year-old Raizel Rothenberg were killed in the crash. According to The Yeshiva World, Naydavoud…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
Drunken Boater Charged In Deadly Summer Atlantic City Crash: Prosecutor Drunken Boater Charged In Deadly Summer Atlantic City Crash: Prosecutor
Drunken Boater Charged In Deadly Summer Atlantic City Crash: Prosecutor An Atlantic City man is facing charges after a boat crash killed a woman last summer, authorities said. Jeffrey Jastrzembski, 53, was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 11, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office announced on Tuesday, Jan. 16. He has been charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the crash on Saturday, Aug. 12. Prosecutors said Jastrzembski was driving a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway near the Albany Avenue bridge just after 5 p.m. He's accused of speeding towards the docks and making a sharp left turn. Norma Michaels, 79, of Atlantic City, was hit by Jastrzembski's …

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
HARDCORE AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release HARDCORE AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release
Hardcore AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release A 21-year-old ex-con from Paterson who’s already spent three years behind bars had been free all of four months when he shot someone, then shot someone else while police searched for him this week, authorities charged. A SWAT team led a raid that ended a brief standoff at an Essex Street apartment in Paterson with Memphis Morales on Friday, Jan. 12, they said. Morales was previously convicted of a 2020 shooting and was incarcerated for three years before being released from New Jersey State Prison last May. Three months later, Morales shot a 34-year-old Secaucus man during a Sept. 17 robbe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Federal Agent Interrupts Carjacking, Hit By Fleeing Thugs' Vehicle At 'The Vince' Federal Agent Interrupts Carjacking, Hit By Fleeing Thugs' Vehicle At 'The Vince'
Federal Agent Interrupts Carjacking, Hit By Fleeing Thugs' Vehicle At 'The Vince' EXCLUSIVE: A U.S. Homeland Security officer was struck by a fleeing vehicle after interrupting an attempted carjacking Thursday at the Vince Lombardi Service Area off the New Jersey Turnpike, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. Four black men in a black Porsche Macan were trying to take an elderly Jewish man's vehicle in the parking lot of the rest stop in Ridgefield around 11:30 a.m. Jan. 11, they said. Members of a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) task force who were working a separate investigation in the area intervened. The officer who was struck wasn't seriously injured, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years
Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years A drug kingpin who headed a network that slung fentanyl and meth in South Jersey and the suburbs of Philadelphia while he hid from his pursuers was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 18 years in federal prison. Glenn Long, 29, of Philadelphia, must serve just about all of the time he received in U.S. District Court in Camden on Jan. 4 because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Long – known on the street as “Bless” and “Max” – ran the operation as a fugitive for three years while under a federal indictment for major drug trafficking out of Philadelphia. A second drug conspi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police
Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police Five people suffered minor injuries in a three-car crash on the Garden State Parkway in Middlesex County Tuesday morning, Jan. 2,  state police said. At 8:05 a.m., troopers responded to the parkway northbound in Sayreville at milepost 124.9 for a crash between a Toyota minivan, Toyota passenger vehicle and Acura SUV, police said.  The accident remains under investigation, state police said.

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by Sam Barron