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'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury 'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury
'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury A New Jersey man said he was acting out of fear when he attacked a Pennsylvania woman with a golf club leaving her with a traumatic brain injury, authorities said. Aiven Rosario, 26, of the 100 block of Park Avenue in East Orange, was sentenced to up to nine years in prison in connection with the March 6 attack in Lancaster County, PA, according to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams. Rosario followed the woman into a parking lot in the 1400 block of Millport Road, West Lampeter Township around 9:52 p.m. on March 6, as detailed in the release from the Lancaster C…

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by Jillian Pikora
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NJ Woman Who Pulled $400,000 GoFundMe Scam With Homeless Vet, Ex-BF Gets Federal Prison Time NJ Woman Who Pulled $400,000 GoFundMe Scam With Homeless Vet, Ex-BF Gets Federal Prison Time
NJ Woman Who Pulled $400,000 GoFundMe Scam With Homeless Vet, Ex-BF Gets Federal Prison Time UPDATE: A New Jersey woman who helped pull a scam that conned 14,000 GoFundMe donors across the country out of $400,000 to purportedly benefit a homeless veteran is headed to federal prison. Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown got a far lighter sentence under the terms of her plea deal with the government than did her former boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, who concocted the cruel scheme. McClure was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden on Thursday to a plea-bargained year and a day in a federal penitentiary. D’Amico, the "mastermind," earlier this year got 27 months in a fed pen in exchange …

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Ex-NJ Officer Who Took Payoffs To Protect Prostitutes Gets 4 Years Ex-NJ Officer Who Took Payoffs To Protect Prostitutes Gets 4 Years
Ex-NJ Officer Who Took Payoffs To Protect Prostitutes Gets 4 Years A retired Newark police veteran who admitted pocketing tens of thousands of dollars to protect city whorehouses while he was on the beat was sentenced to a little under four years in federal prison. Julio I. Rivera, 52, of Old Bridge, not only looked the other way: He also promised to have fellow officers do the same and agreed to crack down on a paying brothel owner's competitor, authorities said. Rivera pulled down between $200 and $800 a week from the operators, according to a 14-count indictment on file in U.S. District Court in Newark. The indictment charged Rivera with several counts…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Porch Pirate Caught In the Act By Postal Worker In Dauphin County Porch Pirate Caught In the Act By Postal Worker In Dauphin County
Porch Pirate Caught In the Act By Postal Worker In Dauphin County A US Postal worker caught a porch Pirate stealing packages while on their route on Thursday, according to police. The USPS worker called police in Hummelstown and reported seeing USPS packages being stolen from homes in the area. When police confronted the man he admitted to it and returned a stolen bottle of perfume. Sean Michael Percy, 47, of Elizabethtown, was charged with one count of theft and was required to pay restitution for stolen perfume that he took from a neighbor. Percy has a criminal record of public drunkenness and a felony charge for breaking into a structure in 2012. Po…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Chester County Man Charged With Tax Evasion -- Again Chester County Man Charged With Tax Evasion -- Again
Chester County Man Charged With Tax Evasion -- Again A 51-year-old Chester County man previously convicted on tax evasion charges in 2016 has been charged again for avoiding to pay most of the $5 million in restitution in that case, federal authorities announced. An indictment alleges that Michael Goldner, 51, of Paoli, accrued approximately $1,858,740 in tax debt between 2013 and 2017 and in 2016 involved himself in a scheme to avoid payments, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. Goldner allegedly had his employer make payments to Goldner's wife to pay for personal expenses including the mort…

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by Nicole Acosta