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PA Man Burglarized Hunterdon County Gas Station With Sledgehammer: Police PA Man Burglarized Hunterdon County Gas Station With Sledgehammer: Police
PA Man Burglarized Hunterdon County Gas Station With Sledgehammer: Police A 42-year-old Pottstown man was arrested and charged with breaking into a gas station in Milford on Thursday, Sept. 11, authorities said. On Monday, March 24,an employee reporting for work found that the Shell gas station at 1050 Milford Warren Glen Rd. had been burglarized in the overnight hours while the station was closed, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée Robeson and Holland Township Police Chief Sean Gutsick said. Security footage showed an unknown suspect, later identified as Chad Hefter, breaking the front glass with a small sledgehammer and entering the closed busines…

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by Sam Barron
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$1.7M Jewelry Store Theft: NJ Duo Used Sledgehammer To Break Into Business, Feds Say $1.7M Jewelry Store Theft: NJ Duo Used Sledgehammer To Break Into Business, Feds Say
$1.7M Jewelry Store Theft: NJ Duo Used Sledgehammer To Break Into Business, Feds Say Two New Jersey men have been arrested in connection with the violent, broad-daylight robbery of a jewelry store in New York that left customers and employees terrified, federal officials announced. Essex County residents Kevin Williams, 26, and Byron Wilson, 24, both of Irvington, NJ, were arrested and charged in the December 2024 sledgehammer robbery at Tarrytown Jewelers in the Westchester County hamlet of Hartsdale, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday, March 25.  The robbery happened just after 11 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, at the Westch…

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by Ben Crnic
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Robber With Twisted Nickname Learns Fate In Paterson, Jersey City Jewelry Store Heists Robber With Twisted Nickname Learns Fate In Paterson, Jersey City Jewelry Store Heists
Robber With Twisted Nickname Learns Fate In Paterson, Jersey City Jewelry Store Heists A Washington DC will spend nearly 20 years behind bars for his role in a violent string of armed robberies with very specific targets in multiple states, federal authorities announced. William Hunter, 28, also known as “Ill Will,” was sentenced this week to 228 months (19 years) in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release following a crime spree that saw him and others targeting South Asian jewelry stores in multiple states up and down the East Cost. The scheme - reportedly led by DC rapper Trevor Wright AKA "Taliban Glizzy -  landed the 15-member crew millions of do…

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by Zak Failla