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Ex-Con NJ Bloods Leader Known As 'Hellboy' Gets 10 Years, No Parole, After Undercover PCP Sting Ex-Con NJ Bloods Leader Known As 'Hellboy' Gets 10 Years, No Parole, After Undercover PCP Sting
Ex-Con NJ Bloods Leader Known As 'Hellboy' Gets 10 Years, No Parole, After Undercover PCP Sting UPDATE: The leader of a Bloods subset that ruled some East Orange, Newark and Orange neighborhoods must spend the next 10 years in federal prison after he got stung selling PCP to an undercover agent. Tyree Thomas, 29, of Irvington -- known on the street as “Hellboy” -- had two loaded guns to protect the drugs and proceeds in a stash house that was raided after he repeatedly peddled phencyclidine to the agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Agents seized a 9mm Glock 19 and a .380-caliber Grendel P1O…

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Feds: Homeland Security Agents In NJ Nab Canadian Who Traveled 2,750 Miles For Sex With Kids Feds: Homeland Security Agents In NJ Nab Canadian Who Traveled 2,750 Miles For Sex With Kids
Feds: Homeland Security Agents In NJ Nab Canadian Who Traveled 2,750 Miles For Sex With Kids Undercover U.S. Homeland Security agents seized a Canadian man when he arrived in New Jersey for what he thought would be sex with children, authorities said. Patrick John Anthony Coderre, a 53-year-old Ontario resident known as "T Ocean," turned up on law enforcement radar for possible child exploitation in March 2019, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said Friday, Oct. 28. Two undercover agents with the federal Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Investigation used three bogus identities to communicate with Coderre via text message, email, and Telegram Messe…

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Feds: Southern Couple Ran Guns Later Seized In Crimes Into NJ Feds: Southern Couple Ran Guns Later Seized In Crimes Into NJ
Feds: Southern Couple Ran Guns Later Seized In Crimes Into NJ Three guns recovered in separate crimes in Elizabeth were bought by a South Carolina woman who smuggled them into New Jersey with a convicted felon as her partner, federal authorities charged. One of the weapons traced to Christina Lanette Williams and Fuquan Haafiz Ali Bowers was found at the scene of a shooting, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Another was seized from a juvenile, while the third was recovered from a convicted felon, she said. A federal magistrated judge in South Carolina released both Williams and Bowers on $25,000 unsecured bond following thei…

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by Jerry DeMarco