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Update: Ex-BF Cleared, Gang Member Charged With Stabbing Leonia Woman To Death
UPDATE: A Paterson gang member now charged with killing a Leonia woman in the garden apartment she shared with her daughter ran out when he heard the girl wake up, then circled back as if he was just arriving, investigators said.
Nile Diakos, 35, was recorded on phone calls and in texts admitting that he killed Alicia Arnone by stabbing her in the neck and chest last Saturday, March 26, according to court papers.
Authorities originally charged her former live-in boyfriend, Andrae Daniels of Lodi, with killing Arnone, 35.
But new information emerged that led them to drop murder charges aga…
4 Ounces Of Cocaine, $2K Worth Of Pot, Loaded Rifle Seized From Berks Drug Dealer: DA
More than four ounces of cocaine, thousands of dollars worth of marijuana, and a loaded rifle were seized from a cocaine dealer in Berks County, authorities said.
The Berks County DA's Office got a tip in January that Bryan Torres, 34, was dealing cocaine out of his Reading home, they said. A search warrant served at his home on Cotton Street turned up the following on Friday, March 25:
Approximately 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of suspected cocaine, valued at $12,000
An amount of marijuana packaged for sales valued at $2,000.
One loaded Anderson Manufacturing 5.56 caliber AR style rifl…
Meth, Cash Seized In Sharon Hill Raid: Police
Police in Delaware County and the local drug task force seized meth, cash, and more from a suspected dealer, authorities said.
Megan Weaver, 43, was arrested after a warranted search of a home on Sharon Avenue turned up 4.5 ounces of crystal methamphetamine, more than $1000 in cash, and drug packaging on Thursday, March 3, Sharon Hill police said.
Weaver, of Sharon Hill, was arrested without incident and subsequently arraigned on charges of possession with intent to deliver, selling of controlled substances, and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records.
She was remanded…
Authorities Smash Atlantic City-Based Operation That Trafficked Guns, Drugs
Authorities seized nine guns, 14 large-capacity ammo magazines, seven bricks of heroin and more in the takedown of a crew that they said sold large amounts of drugs and guns in and around Atlantic City.
Four men were arrested following a joint investigation by local, state, county and federal law enforcers that included nearly two dozen undercover buys of heroin, fentanyl, meth and firearms, Acting Attorney New Jersey General Matthew J. Platkin announced Thursday, Feb. 24.
Arrested were:
Ricardo Lugo Jr., 21, of Egg Harbor Township;
Jamal M. George, 26, of Mays Landing;
Rashawn S. Parks, …
US Marshals Nab Remaining Suspects In Shooting Death Of 27-Year-Old Pottstown Man: DA
The remaining suspects wanted in the October shooting death of a 27-year-old man in Pottstown were nabbed Thursday by members of the U.S. Marshals Service, authorities said.
Samir Bentley, 20, and Ahmed Mohammed, 16, both of Philadelphia, were arrested in Greenville, N.C., and charged with first, second, and third-degree murder, conspiracy, robbery, carrying a firearm without a license, possessing an instrument of crime, and related offenses, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.
Their arrests come nearly three months after the arrests of their co-con…
