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Six arrested on fraud charges stemming from Jersey City construction project
Federal authorities have arrested two people in New Jersey and four in New York on fraud and embezzlement charges stemming from a Jersey City construction project. Anselmo Genovese is charged in two...
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Detective investigating Newark schoolyard shooting says Alfaro was willing to...
NEWARK — Investigators immediately questioned a suspect in the 2007 schoolyard triple killings even though he was still in Virginia, the lead Newark police detective said today in court. Investigators...
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Former state senator Joseph Coniglio has sentence reduced
TRENTON — A former New Jersey state senator has had his prison sentenced reduced. Joseph Coniglio was not present for his resentencing today in Newark federal court, where a judge cut his 30-month...
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Newark woman was killed with hammer and dismembered, police say
NEWARK — Police discovered a missing Newark woman's dismembered body in a West Ward residence Tuesday, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. After receiving a report of a body in an...
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Moments before schoolyard slaying, Newark victims were told 'remember the...
Judge at Alexander Alfaro's trial decided to allow his statement as part of his hour-long recorded interview with police in Virginia, shortly after his arrest in the killing NEWARK — "Remember the...
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Judge maintains $750K bail for Dover man accused of killing man outside bar
DOVER — A Superior Court judge today kept bail at $750,000, cash only, for a Dover man accused of murder in Monday’s fatal beating outside a Dover bar. Ramon Pacheco, 27, is accused of hitting Edwin...
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Two men hit Staten Island man with gun during attempted carjacking in...
HILLSIDE — A 65-year-old Staten Island man was hit with a gun during an attempted carjacking Tuesday night in Hillside, authorities said. The victim parked on Schley Street around 10 p.m. and was...
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Dover man admits to using his video store as center of organized theft...
DOVER — A 64-year-old Dover man admitted today that he used his store as the center of what authorities have described as one of the largest stolen property operations in the history of Morris County....
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Authorities accuse Carteret woman's boyfriend of strangling her in their home
CARTERET — Middlesex County authorities are seeking to extradite from New York the live-in boyfriend of a Carteret mother now charged with strangling her in their apartment. Middlesex County...
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Authorities offer $5K reward for information in fatal hit-and-run of...
ESSEX COUNTY — A cash reward of up to $5,000 has been offered for information that leads to an arrest in connection with the hit-and-run fatality of a Maplewood resident in Newark on Feb. 27, Essex...
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N.J. Attorney General Dow launches education campaign on 'Grandparent Scam'
ELIZABETH — When Wayne grandparents Jim and Dorothy picked up the phone one morning in February, they heard a slightly distorted voice on the other end claiming to be their grandson. Sounding...
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Criticism of early-release program escalates as N.J. records show another...
More than two weeks before a Jersey City fatal shooting by an ex-inmate, Brandon Isler allegedly killed a teenager in Camden, one month after being released early from prison File photos of...
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Defendant in Newark schoolyard slayings says in statement he didn't try to...
NEWARK — Alexander Alfaro said he had the machete in his hand and was staring straight at his half-brother. "He looks at me. He tells me, you know what you have to do, or else you know what’s going to...
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Two vehicles in Toms River are set on fire
TOMS RIVER — Two vehicles were set on fire this morning in Toms River, according to a report on APP.com. Firefighters extinguished blazes involving a 2011 Nissan around 6 a.m. and a 2002 county-owned...
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Jurors in Newark schoolyard triple fatal shooting listen to defendant's...
NEWARK — Jurors this morning are continuing to hear the tape recorded interview Alexander Alfaro gave police shortly after he was charged in the Aug. 4, 2007, schoolyard triple killings. Alfaro is on...
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Authorities search for man wanted in slaying of Plainfield taxi driver
PLAINFIELD — Authorities are searching for an alleged street-gang member now charged in connection with the September shooting death of a Plainfield taxi driver. Jonathan “J-Rummy” Morgan is the...
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Cousin recounts how defendant described Newark schoolyard triple slaying
NEWARK — Alexander Alfaro’s cousin is testifying at his murder trial this afternoon, detailing how the young man visited her home in Orange a day after the Newark schoolyard triple killing, and...
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Man is sentenced to 40 years in prison for fatal shooting of Newark club bouncer
NEWARK — Melissa Rivera spoke directly to her brother’s killer today. "You took somebody so special to us," she said before the sentencing of David Fernandez for the murder of Jose Rivera, 39, of...
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SOMERVILLE — A Hunterdon County woman was indicted by a Somerset County grand jury today on charges of stealing the identities of two people to get medication from Somerset Medical Center in...
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N.J. corrections officer is indicted in inmate beating
Five other officers were charged with failing to report the beating Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerView of the exterior of New Jersey State Prison in Trenton in this 2009 file photo. TRENTON — A state...
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