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Ex-Con Kidnapper Gets 43 Years, No Parole, For Rape, Arson, Assault Rampage Through NJ, NY, PA
UPDATE: An ex-con who kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend in Pennsylvania, then torched a used car dealership in Paterson and rammed a stolen SUV into police cars at both ends of the George Washington Bridge was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison.
Luis Figueroa, 42, first took a plea deal from the government that called for him to serve 26 years in a federal penitentiary.
Then he abruptly withdrew his plea, took his chances with a trial – and lost.
Federal jurors in Newark convicted Figueroa in May 2022 of kidnapping, criminal sexual abuse, illegal gun possession and assaulting…
IN Cold Blood (Update): Trio Charged With Killing Kidnapped Newark Man Alongside Route 80
UPDATE: Three Newark men have been charged by New Jersey State Police with shooting and killing a fellow Brick City resident and leaving his body alongside Route 80.
Two of them – William Dixon, 24, and Nishir Rios-Figueroa, 30 – were already in custody in connection with other crimes, State Police said on Tuesday. They captured the third, Mustafa Manns, 28, in Newark.
The trio had abducted the victim, 27-year-old Quadree “Pee” Burch, in early August and driven him to Allamuchy Township, 20 or so miles from the Pennsylvania state line, the NJSP said in a March 14 release.
They shot and ki…
Trio Charged In Kidnapping, Execution Of NJ Man Alongside Route 80: Police
Three Newark men have been charged with kidnapping a man before shooting him and leaving him for dead along Route 80, authorities announced.
Mustafa Manns, 28, William Dixon, 24, and Nishir Rios-Figueroa, 30, have been arrested in the Aug. 18, 2022 death of 27-year-old Quadree Burch, also of Newark, New Jersey State Police announced on Tuesday, March 14.
On Aug. 18, 2022, at 12:26 p.m., troopers from Troop “B” Hope Station responded to the report of human remains found by a New Jersey Department of Transportation employee who was cutting grass on Interstate 80 eastbound near milepost 16.6.…
