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Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD
Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD A 24-year-old teacher’s aide from Bloomfield was arrested after authorities said he arranged to have sex with a 14-year-old North Arlington boy. Don R. Knight-Powell, 24, had been communicating online before making the arrangements, North Arlington Police Lt. Michael Horton said. He was arrested by North Arlington police on luring charges a short time later and sent to the Bergen County Jail. A judge in Hackensack ordered him released the next day. Knight-Powell made local news last year with a personal story of “trauma and triumph as a gay black man” whose adoptive parents rejected him be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House 4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House
4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House A serial killer recently sentenced to 160 years in state prison for luring and killing three women he met online and attempting the same with a fourth has been arrested in a fifth case that had not been solved until now. Khalil A. Wheeler Weaver has been formally accused of strangling 15-year-old Mawa Doumbia, of Newark, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, announced. The 15-year-old Newark girl had last been seen by her dad and sister Oct. 7, 2016, as she was leaving her home. Her decomposed body was found on the second floor of an old carriage house on Main Street in …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen
Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen A 68-year-old Monmouth County man who lured an out-of-state girl to his home after posing as a young boy was sentenced Monday to a plea-bargained seven years in federal prison for getting her to send him pornographic images of herself. Local authorities had removed the child from the Union Beach home of Herman Christopher Jensen when the FBI began investigating his online activities. They soon learned that Jensen had assumed the identity of a 17-year-old boy named Kevin Bennett on Facebook “in order to entice and solicit [the girl] to send nude and sexually explicit images over the internet…

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by Jerry DeMarco