Ex-NJ Camp Counselor Admits Saving More Than 1,000 Child Pornography Images Ex-NJ Camp Counselor Admits Saving More Than 1,000 Child Pornography Images
Ex-NJ Camp Counselor Admits Saving More Than 1,000 Child Pornography Images A 36-year-old former camp counselor from Burlington County has admitted possessing more than 1,000 images of child pornography, authorities said. Stephen Gifford of Medford Township entered a guilty plea on May 5 in Superior Court in Mount Holly to endangering the welfare of a child, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.  Gifford formerly worked with children at a Jewish summer camp in Medford Township, according to earlier media reports.  Gifford admitted to  guilty distributing child sexual assault material in exchange for a plea-bargained 10-year s…
Morris County Man, 37, Charged With Sexual Assault Morris County Man, 37, Charged With Sexual Assault
Morris County Man, 37, Charged With Sexual Assault A Morris County man has been charged with sexual assault in connection with a 2019 incident, authorities said. Samuel Kennedy, 37, was processed April 16 on a second-degree charge following a “detailed and thorough” investigation into an assault that was originally reported Jan. 26, 2019, Hanover Police said. Kennedy, of Morristown, was served at the Morris County Correctional Facility, where he was already being held on unrelated charges, police said. He is scheduled to appear virtually before Judge Taylor on May 24, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.
Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension  By Cooperating Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension  By Cooperating
Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension By Cooperating UPDATE: Administrative Law Judge Nanci Stokes said she'll tell the state commissioner of education that the Wyckoff Board of Education doesn't have to reinstate Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello while it continues an investigation. Stokes said Iasiello's appeal to immediately be reinstated doesn't "clearly and convicingly" prove that he's suffering irreparable harm, that there's a "reasonable probability of ultimate success" or that he'll endure greater harm than the Board of Education. It also doesn't establish any legal right to his claim, she found. The principal's …
FBI: Middlesex Man Admits Trying To Torch Trenton Police Car Following Floyd Protest FBI: Middlesex Man Admits Trying To Torch Trenton Police Car Following Floyd Protest
FBI: Middlesex Man Admits Trying To Torch Trenton Police Car Following Floyd Protest UPDATE: A Middlesex County man admitted Tuesday that he stuffed a rag into the gas tank of a police cruiser and set it on fire during a riot in Trenton following what had been a peaceful protest last year over the death of George Floyd. Justin Spry, 22, of South Plainfield took a deal from the government rather than go to trial, becoming the second of three men involved in the incident to admit their roles. Spry originally tried claiming on Twitter that he was brutalized by police, but federal authorities produced surveillance video showing otherwise. “Law enforcement officers on scene ob…
LAWSUITS: 9 More Men Accuse North Jersey Shop Teacher Robert Goodlin Of Sex Assault LAWSUITS: 9 More Men Accuse North Jersey Shop Teacher Robert Goodlin Of Sex Assault
Lawsuits: 9 More Men Accuse North Jersey Shop Teacher Robert Goodlin Of Sex Assault A New Jersey shop teacher previously accused of sexually assaulting a pair of students is facing similar accusations from nine more men, NJ.com reports. The suits were filed in Union and Hudson Superior Courts against Robert Goodlin, who is incarcerated at the Adult Diagnostic Treatment Center in Avenel. In 2019, Goodlin was convicted of sexually assaulting a pair of students at Battin Middle School in Elizabeth, where he taught from 1993 to 2004. Two of the latest suits come from former Elizabeth students, while seven were students in Secaucus -- where Goodlin taught in the 1980s, NJ.com…
Paterson Teen Charged With Gunning Down Murder Suspect Paterson Teen Charged With Gunning Down Murder Suspect
Paterson Teen Charged With Gunning Down Murder Suspect An 18-year-old Paterson man was charged with the shooting death of an ex-con who himself was wanted for murder, authorities announced Saturday. D’Andre Ruff, 18, and an accomplice shot Michael Richardson outside a BP gas station at the corner of Broadway and Summer Street shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement on Saturday. Richardson was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center soon after. Police had been searching for Richardson, who was wanted on a f…
FBI STING: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot FBI STING: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot
FBI Sting: Ex-Paraguayan Lawmaker, Husband Admit Roles In $2 Million Drug Money Laundering Plot A former member of Paraguay’s Congress thought that she and her husband were laundering $800,000 in drug money when they’d actually been caught in a New Jersey-based FBI sting, federal authorities said. Cynthia Elizabeth Tarragó, 41, also promised the purported drug traffickers that she could get them large quantities of cocaine at a good price, they said. Both Tarragó and her husband, Raimundo Va, 45, took guilty pleas in exchange for leniency at sentencing, admitting in federal court in Trenton this week that they conspired to launder what they believed would be as much $2 million in drug…
Sussex Police Corporal Who Admitted To Shoving Woman At Bar Will Keep Job, Avoid Probation Sussex Police Corporal Who Admitted To Shoving Woman At Bar Will Keep Job, Avoid Probation
Sussex Police Corporal Who Admitted To Shoving Woman At Bar Will Keep Job, Avoid Probation A police corporal in Sussex County will keep his job and avoid probation after admitting to harassing a woman and shoving her to the floor at a local bar, reports say. Sparta police Cpl. Craig Grauerholz Jr., 43, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of a petty disorderly persons offense during a virtual Wantage municipal court hearing Wednesday, Daily Record reports. Grauerholz was off-duty when he  shoved the woman — an acquaintance — after the two became involved in an argument on St. Patrick’s Day at the township’s VFW hall, breaking her hand, reports said. Grauerholz, a 15-yea…
Toms River Man, 18, Pleads Guilty In Hit-Run Death Of Morris County Utility Worker Toms River Man, 18, Pleads Guilty In Hit-Run Death Of Morris County Utility Worker
Toms River Man, 18, Pleads Guilty In Hit-Run Death Of Morris County Utility Worker A Toms River man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges he was facing after a hit-and-run crash that killed a Morris County utility worker in Metuchen. Paddy Flynn, 18, pleaded guilty to causing death by driving without a license and knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death for the March 2 crash that killed Michael Bergamasco, 51, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said in a statement. Flynn will be sentenced to a prison term of 3 years for Bergamasco's death, under a plea agreement reached with Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Keith Abrams,&n…
Harlem Medical Assistant Charged In Fort Lee Hit-Run That Seriously Injured Pedestrian, 23 Harlem Medical Assistant Charged In Fort Lee Hit-Run That Seriously Injured Pedestrian, 23
Harlem Medical Assistant Charged In Fort Lee Hit-Run That Seriously Injured Pedestrian, 23 A medical assistant from Harlem sped off after she struck and seriously injured a man with her car in broad daylight near the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee last month, said authorities who arrested and charged her. Fatou Diaby, 25, stopped at first and got out of her Honda Accord after she hit the 23-year-old victim at the intersection of Hudson Terrace and Myrtle Avenue shortly before 12:30 p.m. June 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Monday. She then "got back in her vehicle and left the scene prior to police arrival," he said. The victim was taken to Hackensack Univers…
Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty
Newark Parking Authority Employee Admits Selling Drugs, Having Guns On Duty A Newark Parking Authority employee who already had a criminal record admitted Wednesday in federal court that he supplemented his income selling heroin and crack and dealing in guns, authorities said. FBI agents arrested Aughkay “Kay Boogie” Green, 49, after he sold nearly three ounces combined of heroin and crack in separate deals, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Green also got a cut of $1,360 that an associate made selling two Smith and Wesson handguns – one a .44-caliber Model 21, the other a .38-caliber Model 15, along with 50 rounds of hollow-point .44-caliber ammo -- in exchange …
Former Gottheimer Aide Admits Forging Congressional Letters Former Gottheimer Aide Admits Forging Congressional Letters
Former Gottheimer Aide Admits Forging Congressional Letters A now-former aide to New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer admitted using the U.S. House of Representatives seal to falsify letters written on the federal lawmaker’s letterhead. Patrick Sheehan, 29, of West Milford, was working as director of community outreach in Gottheimer’s Sussex County office in Newton when he “falsified and mailed” a series of letters that purported to be from another staffer containing false information about the congressman and that employee, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said following Friday's guilty plea. Sheehan then “falsified multiple copies of a letter on [G…