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Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun
Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun UPDATE: A police sergeant was justified in shooting a Morris Township man who pointed an airsoft gun at him during a domestic disturbance call, a state grand jury has ruled. Timothy O’Shea, 24, was bleeding from the neck and wrists when officers responding to a 911 call found him in the driveway of his Fairchild Avenue home on July 14, 2020, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said Tuesday, April 12. Several responding officers -- from the township, Morris Plains and Morristown – had gotten the older female caller to safety when they encountered O’Shea, the attorney genera…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Safe With $30K-$40K Cash, Blank Checks Stolen From North Jersey Convenience Store Safe With $30K-$40K Cash, Blank Checks Stolen From North Jersey Convenience Store
Safe With $30K-$40K Cash, Blank Checks Stolen From North Jersey Convenience Store Police are seeking the public’s help identifying the suspect vehicle in the theft of a safe containing $30,000 to $40,000 cash from a North Jersey gas station earlier this week. The burglary occurred at the Morris Plains Liberty Gas & Convenience store at 1799 Rt. 10 East between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Tuesday, Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon said. Officers responding to the burglary confirmed the theft of the safe, which also contained blank business checks. A second safe from inside the store had been moved to the back exit but was not taken, Gannon said. Surveillance footage sh…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Authorities ID 3 NJ Men Killed In PA Crash Authorities ID 3 NJ Men Killed In PA Crash
Authorities ID 3 NJ Men Killed In PA Crash One was a comedian. Another an actor. And the third an engineer with a passion for singing. All three were New Jersey residents who died in a Pennsylvania crash over the weekend. Nicholas Nissen, 24, of South Amboy, and Joseph Riggio, 30, of Parlin, were pronounced dead at the scene, Carbon County Coroner Robert W. Miller Jr. told Lehigh Valley Live. Michael Guezara, 31, of Bayonne, died at Geisinger Medical Center in Luzerne County, the coroner said. Nissen was the only one wearing a seatbelt, authorities said. The three men were traveling in a 2018 Toyota Camry driven by Morris Plains …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Getaway Driver In 7-County North Jersey Holdup Spree Heads To Federal Prison Getaway Driver In 7-County North Jersey Holdup Spree Heads To Federal Prison
Getaway Driver In 7-County North Jersey Holdup Spree Heads To Federal Prison The wheelman in nearly two dozen gas station and convenience store armed robberies in North Jersey was sent to federal prison for at least nine years. Meshach Whagar, 31, of Newark must serve just about all of the 110-month sentence handed down in U.S. District Court in Newark on Wednesday because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Whager admitted late last year that he drove the getaway car during the 20 predawn holdups in seven counties -- Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex, Middlesex, Morris and Union -- in November and December of 2017 (see list of locations below). The gunman…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Parents Seek Answers Following In-Custody Death Of Autistic Son Tied To NJ, CT, PA Bank Holdups Parents Seek Answers Following In-Custody Death Of Autistic Son Tied To NJ, CT, PA Bank Holdups
Parents Seek Answers Following In-Custody Death Of Autistic Son Tied To NJ, CT, PA Bank Holdups UPDATE: A 23-year-old Cleveland man with autism who was accused of five bank robberies and two other attempts in New Jersey – and suspected in a dozen others in Connecticut and Pennsylvania – has died in federal custody in Chicago. Federal authorities hadn’t yet explained to his parents how Tyler James O’Toole died after being hospitalized last month, however, according to a published report. O’Toole was awaiting trial on charges of robbing a bank Glenview, Illinois when he cut off his monitoring bracelet, stole his mother's 2018 Hyundai Elantra and went on a holdup spree last fall, federal…

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by Jerry DeMarco