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Feds: NJ Mail Carrier Picked Up, Delivered Drugs For Years Feds: NJ Mail Carrier Picked Up, Delivered Drugs For Years
Feds: NJ Mail Carrier Picked Up, Delivered Drugs For Years A New Jersey mail carrier took bribes for five years to help people use the U.S. Postal Service to ship coke, pot and other contraband through the mail. Emerson Pavilus, 46, of Union was working for the post office in Flanders when he took the payoffs, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. “Among other things, Pavilus provided his conspirators with addresses in Flanders to which parcels could be shipped, intercepted those parcels from the mail stream, and personally delivered those parcels to conspirators at addresses other than those listed on the parcels,” Honig said. Pavilus was n…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ChesCo Sheriff, Deputy Indicted For Using County Funds To Pay Employees For Volunteer Work ChesCo Sheriff, Deputy Indicted For Using County Funds To Pay Employees For Volunteer Work
ChesCo Sheriff, Deputy Indicted For Using County Funds To Pay Employees For Volunteer Work A Chester County sheriff and deputy admitted to using county funds to pay employees for volunteer work, performed both on and off duty, at private charity events, authorities announced. Former Chester County Sheriff Carolyn Welsh and former deputy Harry McKinney were arrested on November 23, 2020, following a Grand Jury investigation, Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. The investigation revealed that because Chester County reportedly did not have the budget to support a K-9 unit as large as the one that Welsh and McKinney sought to create, they used on-duty deputies to perform vo…

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by Nicole Acosta