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  • Kearny Bookkeeper Charged with Third-Degree Theft

    Oct 23, 2018

    A Kearny bookkeeper has confessed and pleaded guilty to stealing money from her school’s district, and she has agreed to pay back over $300,000 in damages as a result of her plea agreement. Former Bookkeeper Confesses to Theft Gina Neri, the 50-year-old bookkeeper, is a resident of North Arlington. Her duties as a bookkeeper required her to keep track of the school district’s spending. The district’s business office first began to realize there may b...
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  • Bank Robbing “Nuns” Confess to their Crimes

    Sep 20, 2018

    Habitual bank robbers who had a practice of dressing up in disguises before their crimes including dressing up as nuns have finally confessed to their crimes. The two young women had a three month period where they robbed or attempted to rob banks in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, one time dressed as nuns while other times they wore hijab head coverings although twice they left the banks empty handed. Garfield Bank Held at Gunpoin...
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  • Fatal Drunk Driving Accident; Off-Duty Cop Gets Year in Jail

    Sep 18, 2018

    Fatal Drunk Driving Accident; Off-Duty Cop Gets Year in Jail An off-duty Long Branch police detective pleaded guilty to strict liability vehicular homicide and DWI for fatally striking a 66-year-old Stanhope woman with his jeep as she was crossing the street on Ocean Boulevard. He is now considered to be the first defendant in New Jersey to be sentenced under the strict liability vehicular homicide statute that is considered a third-degree offense under the ne...
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  • Large Majority of Crimes in New Brunswick Go Unsolved

    Aug 21, 2018

    The Mayor of New Brunswick expected a large drop in the crime rate when he increased the size of the New Brunswick Police Department. What he did not expect was the rise in homicides that occurred which ended up being four times as many homicides in 2017 as they had in the entire year before. Not only that, according to the State Police Uniform Crime Report close to 90 percent of all crimes reported t...
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  • Important Ways Legal Marijuana Could Affect New Jersey

    Aug 7, 2018

    With the New Jersey Tax Revenue One of the main reasons for wanting to legalize marijuana is the large increase in tax revenue the state would receive. It has been projected that New Jersey would make close to $300 million in revenue once marijuana is legalized for recreational use, something that other states that have legalized the drug are already enjoying the benefits from. With property taxes at an all time high and ...
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  • Drug Evidence in New Jersey

    Jul 31, 2018

    While it is always advisable to adhere to the wishes of law enforcement and remain compliant when pulled over, police are people too, and people make mistakes. Sometimes, these mistakes make it so they can do their job, but if those mistakes do not follow proper protocol it could end up making subsequent events null and void. Such was the case for two New Jersey men who had been arrested and charged for The...
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  • NJ Supreme Court Says Cops Don’t Need Warrants to Get Blood in DUIs

    Jul 24, 2018

    As a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state of New Jersey, you are afforded certain rights even if you have broken the law. But laws and rights are constantly under scrutiny and constantly changing and evolving from incident to incident. Recently, the New Jersey Supreme Court passed a ruling that police do not always need a warrant before drawing blood from a person suspected of driving under the influence o...
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  • Not Guilty Plea Entered by Pagan Gang Leader in Death of Radio Host

    Jun 28, 2018

    Pagan motorcycle gang leader Ferdinand Augello has entered a not-guilty plea for the 2012 shooting death of radio host April Kauffman before a Superior Court Judge in an Atlantic County courtroom. The 61-year-old suspect has been accused of hiring a hitman to Wife’s Discovery Leads to Murder When April Kauffman discovered what her husband was doing, he allegedly asked the Pagan gang leader to hire someone to kill his wife. The person who i...
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  • Temporary Tattoo Allows You to Track Your Alcohol Levels

    Jun 21, 2018

    In what many are hoping will start a new safety trend to stop intoxicated driving, there is now a brand new monitoring device that will help allow a person to quickly track their blood alcohol levels and get that information from an app on their phone in as little as 8 minutes. It is being compared to a temporary tattoo because it is a small device that is placed directly on your skin although i...
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  • New Jersey’s System for Determining How Dangerous Sex Offenders Are

    May 24, 2018

    There are few things as heartbreaking as when a child is sexually harassed, and because of this New Jersey has a complex system in place in order to alert and protect the public from any sex offenders that live in their area. All 21 counties have a method of keeping track of New Jersey’s registered The Three Tier System Depending on the severity of the crime committed by the offender there are three separat...
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