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Feds: Ponzi Schemer Funded House, Car, More With $6.8M From Investors In NJ, Elsewhere Feds: Ponzi Schemer Funded House, Car, More With $6.8M From Investors In NJ, Elsewhere
Feds: Ponzi Schemer Funded House, Car, More With $6.8M From Investors In NJ, Elsewhere New Jersey residents were among more than two dozen victims who lost a combined $6.8 million to a North Carolina con man running a Ponzi scheme, federal authorities charged. David Schamens, 64, of Greensboro, NC, promised annual return rates of 12% to 30% when he began soliciting investments in 2014 in Secaucus-based TradeStream Analytics LTD, as well as in other entities with names such as TD Trading LLC, TFG Trading LLC, and Tradedesk Financial Group Inc., U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He then launched Tradestream Algo Fund, an algorithm-based trading pool that he clai…

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'Live Your Dreams' Motocross Mentor Accused Of Raping Children Across 11 States 'Live Your Dreams' Motocross Mentor Accused Of Raping Children Across 11 States
'Live Your Dreams' Motocross Mentor Accused Of Raping Children Across 11 States A man arrested for rape and kidnapping in Tennessee is thought to have raped children in 10 other states, according to the Hamilton County district attorney's office and Homeland Security. Ryan Andrew Meyung, 30, of Ringgold, Tennessee, was on three counts of child rape, two counts of aggravated kidnapping and other related charges on Saturday, Dec. 18, as first reported by the Chattanoogan.  During the investigation, local police partnered with the federal law enforcement agency Homeland Security Investigations and learned Meyung may have more victims in other states, including Georg…

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by Jillian Pikora
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$6 MILLION SCAM: Man Admits Role In Nigerian Bank Fraud Network Operating In NJ, PA, MD $6 MILLION SCAM: Man Admits Role In Nigerian Bank Fraud Network Operating In NJ, PA, MD
$6 Million Scam: Man Admits Role In Nigerian Bank Fraud Network Operating In NJ, PA, MD A member of a sophisticated Nigerian-based fraud ring admitted his role in a massive conspiracy that scammed banks in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland out of $6 million. Ayanniyi Alayande, 47, of Darby, PA wasn't involved in the crudely constructed "Nigerian prince" emails schemes of the past. He ran with a ring that altered and cashed business checks stolen from the mail, authorities said. Alayande is the first of 12 defendants in the case to take a deal from the government and plead guilty rather than face trial. Members of the highly organized group altered the payee on the checks …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Ring That Dealt Fentanyl, Crack Smashed By Federal, County, Local Crime-Fighting Team NJ Ring That Dealt Fentanyl, Crack Smashed By Federal, County, Local Crime-Fighting Team
NJ Ring That Dealt Fentanyl, Crack Smashed By Federal, County, Local Crime-Fighting Team Eleven accused members of a drug ring that authorities said openly peddled crack and potentially fatal fentanyl in a Newark neighborhood were charged federally on Wednesday. The ring's "primary supplier," Frazier Burton, 46, was caught with 100 bricks of heroin and fentanyl when tactical officers arrested him Wednesday morning, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. At 50 bags per brick, that's 5,000 individual packages -- all of which Honig said carried the neighborhood drug network's particular stamps. The case took several months for an ad hoc team of local, county and federal inve…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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2,200 Bricks Of Heroin Worth $1.1M Seized In 'Historic' NJ Drug Bust: Prosecutor 2,200 Bricks Of Heroin Worth $1.1M Seized In 'Historic' NJ Drug Bust: Prosecutor
2,200 Bricks Of Heroin Worth $1.1M Seized In 'Historic' NJ Drug Bust: Prosecutor Three people have been arrested and more than $1 million worth of heroin was seized in a major Mercer County bust that involved tracking suspects between Philadelphia and Trenton, authorities said. The total amount of heroin seized was 2,200 bricks or 110,000 glassine bags, according to Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri, who called it "the largest pre-packaged heroin seizure in Mercer County history." Detectives also seized $50,000 in cocaine as a result of the three-month investigation. On Monday,  members of the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force were conducting s…

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by Jon Craig
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Prostitution Investigation Underway At Suburban Philly Spa Prostitution Investigation Underway At Suburban Philly Spa
Prostitution Investigation Underway At Suburban Philly Spa Police are looking into allegations of prostitution at a spa in the Philadelphia suburbs. Hilltown police served a search warrant at the Tranquil Oasis Spa on Bethlehem Pike in Hatfield on Tuesday after a "lengthy investigation" revealed possible prostitution and related activity at the business, authorities said. The investigation is ongoing and no criminal charges have been filed, police said. The Hilltown Township Police Department is working with the Bucks District Attorney's Office, Bucks County Detectives, the Bensalem Township Police Department, Hatfield Township Police Department, …

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by Nicole Acosta
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Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here
Pedo Who Got No Prison Time For Sexually Assaulting Boy, 5, In Grenada Faces Long Sentence Here A New York City man who got no prison time in Grenada after admitting that he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy there is facing justice here in the United States. Seized by U.S. government agents, Treverson Roberts, 27, pleaded guilty to the crime in federal court in Brooklyn on Monday in a bid for leniency. Roberts certainly won't get the kind of leniency he got in Grenada. The maximum penalty here is 30 years. The dual U.S. and Grenadian citizen -- who lives in Brooklyn -- will also have to serve out just about all of his eventual sentence. There's no parole in the U.S. federal prison …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case
NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case A 54-year-old Lehigh Valley resident was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison in a child pornography case, federal authorities announced Tuesday. In March, Robert Costello of Bethlehem pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography, one count of access with intent to view child pornography, and one count of possessing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Costello, who worked as an assistant commissioner for the New York City Department of Probation, admitted to receiving child porn on the internet and storing it on multiple devices at his …

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by Nicole Acosta
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NJ Founder Of Tri-State Nature Tour Company Takes Guilty Plea In Child Porn Case NJ Founder Of Tri-State Nature Tour Company Takes Guilty Plea In Child Porn Case
NJ Founder Of Tri-State Nature Tour Company Takes Guilty Plea In Child Porn Case The North Jersey founder of a tri-state nature tour company admitted Wednesday that he collected hundreds of child porn images, federal authorities said. Vaughn Tiedeman, 48, of Living Adventure Tours in Sussex County, was arrested by federal Homeland Security agents on child porn trafficking charges in early 2019. Between July 2018 and January 2019, the West Milford resident “downloaded and possessed more than 600 images of child sexual abuse, including images of young children and depictions of violence,” Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael Honig said. Rather than risk conviction…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Neo-Nazi Gets Year, Day For Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews NJ Neo-Nazi Gets Year, Day For Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews
NJ Neo-Nazi Gets Year, Day For Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews A New Jersey member of a hardcore neo-Nazi group was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on Tuesday for convincing two fellow white supremacists to vandalize property owned by Blacks and Jews. Richard Tobin, 20, dubbed the nationwide campaign “Operation Kristallnacht,” after a 1938 pogrom in which German Nazis slaughtered more than 90 Jews and burned their homes, synagogues, stores and schools, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Tobin “encouraged hateful acts of violence against individuals and their houses of worship, based on their religion or the color…

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Syrian Refugee Pleads Guilty To ISIS Bomb Threat At Pittsburgh Church Syrian Refugee Pleads Guilty To ISIS Bomb Threat At Pittsburgh Church
Syrian Refugee Pleads Guilty To ISIS Bomb Threat At Pittsburgh Church A Syrian refugee has pleaded guilty in connection to an Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham bomb threat at a church in Pittsburgh. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 23, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS in relation to his plan to attack Legacy International Worship Center located at 2131 Wilson Ave in Pittsburgh in 2019, according to the US Department of Justice. Alowemer came to the US as a refugee escaping the Syrian Civil War on Aug. 1, 2016. He lived in an apartment in Northview Heights, Pittsburgh with his parents and sibling…

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Bucks Meth Ring Leader Sentenced To Up To 20 Years In Prison Bucks Meth Ring Leader Sentenced To Up To 20 Years In Prison
Bucks Meth Ring Leader Sentenced To Up To 20 Years In Prison A man accused of leading a methamphetamine ring in his Bucks County home was sentenced Tuesday to nine to 20 years in state prison, authorities said. Gary Lynn Moyer, 72, of Dublin, ran the operation out of his home on Cherry Lane and had six people gather items and ingredients required to manufacture methamphetamine, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. They delivered the items to Moyer, and some acted as lookouts while he "cooked" the methamphetamine, authorities said. Each member of the ring was seen on several occasions going to Moyer’s home after buying precursor …

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by Nicole Acosta