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US Marshals Nab Pair Of NJ Sex Offenders Together In PA, Prosecutor Says
A pair of New Jersey sex offenders wanted for incidents involving an 8-year-old boy and two girls ages 11 and 14 were found together in Pennsylvania, authorities said Saturday.
U.S. Marshals and Task Force officers found Emanuel Cortez and Alberto Colon at a family member's house with two children in Summit Hill (Carbon County) PA, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said.
Cortez, 31, of East Orange, was released from confinement in May 2018 and had been missing from supervision since March 15, 2019.
An indictment charged him with escape,&nbs…
SWAT Standoff: Two Dead As Carlstadt Sex Offender Shoots Ex-Wife, Himself
UPDATE: The 5-year-old daughter of a convicted sex offender who died by suicide after an hours-long SWAT standoff at his Carlstadt home on Saturday was there when he shot and killed his ex-wife the night before, authorities said.
The little girl apparently told her grandparents, who lived upstairs, that James Cox had killed Massiel Deoleo, 34, of Mahwah, in the downstairs apartment of the family's 6th Street home sometime Friday night.
“Daddy killed Mommy,” she told them, but said Cox had assured her that it was only a nightmare, responders said.
Police got the girl and the grandparents o…
