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Newark, NJ
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Former NJ Child Services Caseworker Admits Collecting Kid Porn Former NJ Child Services Caseworker Admits Collecting Kid Porn
Former NJ Child Services Caseworker Admits Collecting Kid Porn 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A 57-year-old former caseworker for the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency admitted collecting images of victims as young as toddlers being sexually abused, federal authorities said. Authorities found images on his cellphone after Trent Collier, 57, of Kearny, arrived at Newark Airport on a flight from the Dominican Republic, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said. Collier was targeted because he'd apparently exchanged images on the phone while out of the country, investigators said. He ended up taking a deal from the government rather than risking the potential ou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Feds Finally Get Justice In Re-Sentencings Of NJ Army Major, Wife Who Abused 5 Kids Feds Finally Get Justice In Re-Sentencings Of NJ Army Major, Wife Who Abused 5 Kids
Feds Finally Get Justice In Re-Sentencings Of NJ Army Major, Wife Who Abused 5 Kids UPDATE: It took federal authorities three tries over more than eight years, but they finally got to see the punishment fit the crimes when a judge sentenced a Morris County couple who severely abused their children to extended prison terms. The sentences imposed in federal court in Newark on Monday, Oct. 30, "hold Carolyn Jackson and John Jackson accountable for their horrific crimes, and bring a measure of justice for their victims,” said U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger (photo above, left). Carolyn Jackson, 46, was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison. John E.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
New Haven, CT
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Ring Member Admits Snatching $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles In CT, Elsewhere In Tristate Ring Member Admits Snatching $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles In CT, Elsewhere In Tristate
Ring Member Admits Snatching $1.5M Worth Of High-End Vehicles In CT, Elsewhere In Tristate The last of four men caught stealing more than $1.5 million worth of luxury cars in Connecticut, Rockland County, Long Island and New Jersey took a guilty plea on Thursday, Oct. 19 federal authorities announced. Like his pals, Malik Baker, age 29, of Vauxhall, New Jersey, took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in federal court in Newark on Thursday to conspiring to transport stolen vehicles in interstate commerce and receiving a stolen vehicle that had crossed state lines after being stolen. US District Judge Esther Salas scheduled Baker's sentencing for Thursday, March 7, 2024. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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ICE Detains Guatemalan National Jailed On Domestic Violence Charges Out Of PalPark ICE Detains Guatemalan National Jailed On Domestic Violence Charges Out Of PalPark
ICE Detains Guatemalan National Jailed On Domestic Violence Charges Out Of PalPark Federal authorities placed a detainer on a Guatemalan national living in Palisades Park after he was jailed on domestic violence charges. Cruz L. Baten, 32, was charged with simple assault and criminal mischief and sent to the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, June 6, in connection with what Palisades Park police said was an alleged weekend incident on Highland Avenue. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately requested that Baten remain held. Such detainers are sought whenever immigrants suspected of living here illegally are jailed. Hearings are then held in federal court in Newa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Elizabeth, NJ
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Child Porn Sting Nets Retired NJ Middle School Teacher, 73 Child Porn Sting Nets Retired NJ Middle School Teacher, 73
Child Porn Sting Nets Retired NJ Middle School Teacher, 73 A retired New Jersey middle school teacher was busted by federal agents for trafficking child pornography. Robert H. Conrad, 73, of Roselle had an "ongoing sexually graphic conversation" over the course of three months with what turned out to be an undercover agent with the New Jersey Division of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Conrad also "publicly posted multiple videos depicting the sexual abuse of children" in a chatroom and "sent similar videos to the undercover agent directly," Sellinger said. Federal authorities seized "numerous videos …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Where Did This NJ Town Get A Maserati To Auction Off? Answer: From A Federal Convict Where Did This NJ Town Get A Maserati To Auction Off? Answer: From A Federal Convict
Where Did This NJ Town Get A Maserati To Auction Off? Answer: From A Federal Convict A Maserati that’s being auctioned off by a small Bergen County town was seized from a confessed ID thief from Hackensack who's now serving federal prison time for swiping $2 million from various victims, Daily Voice has learned. She was a he at the time. Closter police confiscated the flash ride during a 2018 investigation that produced the arrest of Ralph Taylor -- who according to the U.S. Attorney's Office has become Alexis Taylor while behind bars. Working with others, Taylor bought a “significant amount of stolen personal identifying information via the dark web, includ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More
Notorious 'El Chapo Of Opioids' Doc From Bergen Admits Randomly Prescribing Pain Killers, More A Bergen County doctor who became notorious as the “El Chapo of Opioids” admitted in federal court Monday that he randomly wrote prescriptions for oxycodone, Percocet and more with no questions asked and then tried to cover his tracks. Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, “knowingly prescribed for his patients some of the most dangerous and addictive drugs available, sometimes with no more contact than a text message from the patient,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said after Delagente pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to illegally selling the drugs, falsifying records and conspiracy. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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Drug Trafficker Known As 'The Colonel' Sentenced In Newark Drug Trafficker Known As 'The Colonel' Sentenced In Newark
Drug Trafficker Known As 'The Colonel' Sentenced In Newark A Mexican citizen who helped smuggle 300 grams of fentanyl into New Jersey was sentenced Tuesday to 64 months in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.  Angel Santo Jerez Matos, 61, had previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of the drug, a synthetic opioid several times stronger than heroin. He was sentenced in federal court in Newark.  Matos sold fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to a gang that dealt drugs in New Jersey, authorities said. Matos was heard on intercepted communications referring to the price of "cars," a code for kilos of …

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by Paul Milo
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows
Wallington Retiree Gets 5+ Years In Fed Pen For Buying Live Child Sex Shows A 67-year-old Wallington retiree was sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison – just about all of which he must serve – for buying live child sex shows online. Stephen Hallett admitted in federal court in Newark last October that he bought dozens of shows from sellers in the Philippines of minors “engaging in sexually explicit conduct” from 2013 through 2015, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Hallett -- who once worked in administration at what was then Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus and is currently married to a physician -- was sentenced to five years of sup…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid
Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid Federal agents on Thursday arrested a South Korean national from River Edge who they said didn’t admit having sex with a child when he applied for naturalization. Kyung Lim Park, a/k/a “Howard Kyung Lim Park,” 65, admitted in Superior Court in Hackensack in March 2016 that he had sex with the child at least three times. Park, who pleaded guilty to child endangerment and sexual conduct by a non-caretaker, was later sentenced to five years probation, with lifetime community service and the requirement that he register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law. Park had lawfully entered the U.S. fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
U.S. Attorney: FBI Busts Paterson Officer Who Sold Drugs From Patrol Car U.S. Attorney: FBI Busts Paterson Officer Who Sold Drugs From Patrol Car
U.S. Attorney: FBI Busts Paterson Officer Who Sold Drugs From Patrol Car PATERSON, N.J. – FBI agents on Friday arrested a Paterson police officer who they said dealt heroin, crack and pot to a drug buyer working for the government -- sometimes directly from his patrol cruiser. For several weeks up to his arrest, Ruben McAusland, 26, sold the cooperator heroin made to look like Percoset pills, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. McAusland, who lives in the city and joined the department nearly four years ago, made several other sales to the cooperator beginning last October, Carpenito said. The first involved more than three ounces combined of crack and cocaine …

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by Jerry DeMarco