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'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Drew Drechsel Sentenced For Child Sex Crimes Involving NJ Victim 'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Drew Drechsel Sentenced For Child Sex Crimes Involving NJ Victim
'American Ninja Warrior' Champ Drew Drechsel Sentenced For Child Sex Crimes Involving NJ Victim "American Ninja Warrior" champion Drew Drechsel's has fallen from grace and landed in federal prison. Drechsel, 35, who was crowned Total Champion of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior" in 2019, was sentenced last week in Camden Federal Court to 121 months in prison — just more than 10 years — for the charges stemming from child sex crimes that U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said involved a teen victim from New Jersey. "The Real Life Ninja" told investigators he met the victim in 2014, when they were 14 years old through the parkour community as an “American Ninja Warrior.…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Wayne Hills Grad Among 8 Rutgers Football Players Charged In Credit Card Fraud Scheme Wayne Hills Grad Among 8 Rutgers Football Players Charged In Credit Card Fraud Scheme
Wayne Hills Grad Among 8 Rutgers Football Players Charged In Credit Card Fraud Scheme Eight Rutgers University football players were charged for involvement in a credit card fraud scheme with multiple victims, authorities said. Brendan R. Devera, 18 of Totowa, was also charged with promoting organized street crime and money laundering, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Rutgers University Police Chief Kenneth Cop said. Devera graduated from Wayne Hills and started on the Rutgers Football Team as a freshman in 2017. His brother Tyler Devera, a recent Bergen Catholic graduate, committed to the Scarlett Knights in June. The seven other students charged include  Ka…

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by Cecilia Levine
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3 Charged With Shoplifting From Fair Lawn CVS All Had Arrest Warrants, Police Say 3 Charged With Shoplifting From Fair Lawn CVS All Had Arrest Warrants, Police Say
3 Charged With Shoplifting From Fair Lawn CVS All Had Arrest Warrants, Police Say Three people arrested on shoplifting charges at the Fair Lawn CVS on the same day were all wanted by police on warrants.  The first incident took place on July 4 when Fair Lawn Police responded to the CVS at 18-35 River Road for a report of two men who had fled the store without paying for items, said Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler. While investigating the theft, Officer Stephen Buskiewicz approached two men matching the description on East 23rd Street in Paterson, but they fled on foot until eventually captured, Metzler said. Those captured included Sergei Derunets, 28, of Hackensack…

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by Kathy Reakes