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Baltimore
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Serial Bank Robber Serving Sentence In Baltimore Re-Entry Program Cops To New Heists: Feds Serial Bank Robber Serving Sentence In Baltimore Re-Entry Program Cops To New Heists: Feds
Serial Bank Robber Serving Sentence In Baltimore Re-Entry Program Cops To New Heists: Feds A convicted serial bank robber who was serving out his sentence in Baltimore admitted to a string of new robberies in Maryland. Kevin Maurice Lawson, 55, pleaded guilty this week to three armed bank robberies that were all conducted while he was living in a residential re-entry program to finish out his sentence for a 2004 robbery, federal authorities announced. According to his plea, Lawson admitted to three armed bank robberies in Baltimore between June 6 and July 18, 2022, using a black air gun in each while wearing a surgical mask and gloves. In his first two robberies, Lawson approach…

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by Zak Failla
Chester
Police & Fire
Chesco Drug Dealer Had Fentanyl Pills Disguised As Oxycodone, Say Feds Chesco Drug Dealer Had Fentanyl Pills Disguised As Oxycodone, Say Feds
Chesco Drug Dealer Had Fentanyl Pills Disguised As Oxycodone, Say Feds A Chester County drug dealer will face jailtime after prosecutors say he bought hundreds of fake prescription pills filled with fentanyl.  Ryan Menkins, 37, of Malvern, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday, Nov. 14, said US Attorney Jacqueline Romero in a statement.  In May 2018, Menkins bought 900 pills of cyclopropyl fentanyl — a "dangerous fentanyl analogue" and Schedule I drug, say investigators — for $5,600 from Kevin Swing of West Chester, according to the statement. The pills were imprinted with a mark reading "ETH 446," which is commonly found on legitimate…

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by Mac Bullock
Hudson
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Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison
Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison An ex-con from Hudson County is headed back to the big house for using drones to smuggle tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix following his release. Jason “Juice” Arteaga-Loayza, 30, of Jersey City must serve out just about all of a plea-bargained 3½ years because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Arteaga-Loayza and three other men had the smuggling operation going for several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, authorities said. The officers also found a cel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey
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Feds: Unregistered Firearms, Fake FBI, DEA Badges Found In Raid Of Rockland Deputy Mayor's Home Feds: Unregistered Firearms, Fake FBI, DEA Badges Found In Raid Of Rockland Deputy Mayor's Home
Feds: Unregistered Firearms, Fake FBI, DEA Badges Found In Raid Of Rockland Deputy Mayor's Home The deputy mayor of a Rockland County village who's already facing state charges for a trove of unregistered guns found at his home was charged by federal authorities with having a collection of phony badges and ID cards that identify him as working for the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies, records show. Investigators reported a startling discovery when they showed up with a search warrant last week at the home of Brian Downey, a 47-year-old Republican who was elected deputy mayor of the village of Airmont in 2019. Downey was taken into custody after no fewer than 16 unregistere…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey
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Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies
Reputed Mob Boss, Trash-Hauling Giant Carmine 'Papa Smurf' Franco Of Ramsey Dies Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, a reputed Genovese Crime Family boss who became a leader and innovator in the trash hauling industry in New Jersey, Rockland and Westchester, died Monday following complications from COVID-19. Franco, 85, who’d recently lived in the Bears Cove townhouse development in Ramsey, made his name in the waste industry over a five-decade career. He designed and built the country’s first materials recovery facility and New Jersey’s first transfer station, among other projects, and led the charge that produced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Rockland town of Clark…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hudson
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GOTCHA! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont GOTCHA! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont
Gotcha! JC Fugitive Wanted For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Captured In Vermont U.S. Marshals in Vermont captured a Jersey City fugitive wanted for smuggling tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix using drones. Jason “Juice” Loayza, 29, was scheduled for a first federal court appearance appearance Wednesday in Burlington following his capture on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The smuggling operation lasted several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, Carpenito said. They found the bolts removed to a rooftop hatch, along with an inmate with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Burlington
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Federal Inmate At Burlington County Prison Contracts Coronavirus Federal Inmate At Burlington County Prison Contracts Coronavirus
Federal Inmate At Burlington County Prison Contracts Coronavirus New Jersey's first federal prison inmate has tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said.  The agency said an inmate at Fort Dix Correctional Institution in Burlington County tested positive for the virus on Tuesday., according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. There are almost 3,000 inmates at the low-security federal prison. One corrections worker at the Fort Dix prison has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the bureau’s website. Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security facility in South Jersey where more than 1,000 individuals are incarcerated, has not…

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by Jon Craig
Hackensack
Police & Fire
Reports: Imprisoned Star Of Netflix 'Tiger King' Series In Coronavirus Quarantine Reports: Imprisoned Star Of Netflix 'Tiger King' Series In Coronavirus Quarantine
Reports: Imprisoned Star Of Netflix 'Tiger King' Series In Coronavirus Quarantine Imprisoned "Tiger King" documentary star Joe Maldonado-Passage -- also known as "Joe Exotic" -- was in what multiple sources reported is coronavirus quarantine after being transferred to a secure medical center in Texas. Maldonado-Passage, 57, was listed at the Fort Worth FMC, a medical center operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, records show. His husband, Dillon Passage, told reporters that Maldonado-Passage was in coronavirus quarantine because inmates at the jail where he was being held tested positive for the virus. The former zoo owner was convicted last April of trying to hire …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack
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Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus
Sheriff: Two More Bergen County Jail Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus Two more inmates at the Bergen County Jail recently tested positive for the coronavirus, one of whom was hospitalized and another who was receiving medical care in an isolation unit at the lockup, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday. The 40-year-old Salvadoran national in ICE custody and a 54-year-old county inmate brought the total number of inmates who tested positive to three, the sheriff said. The first positive case, a 31-year-old ICE detainee, was released by federal authorities last Thursday, he said. The 40-year-old detainee was sent for medical evaluation after displaying symptoms…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack
Police & Fire
Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine
Bergen County Jail Corrections Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus, 7 Others Self-Quarantine A corrections officer at the Bergen County Jail tested presumptive positive for the coronavirus, leading seven co-workers to self-quarantine as well, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Thursday. Fifteen inmates at the jail were placed on quarantine, as well, the sheriff said. "The test was declared presumptive positive on Wednesday by the New Jersey State Department of Health and has been sent to the Center for Disease Control for confirmation," Cureton said. "Upon medical evaluation, the officer was asked to self-quarantine for 14 days," the sheriff said. "Seven additional corrections officers …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ocean
Police & Fire
Feds: Hudson County Pair Used Drones To Fly Steroids, Phones, More Into Fort Dix Prison Feds: Hudson County Pair Used Drones To Fly Steroids, Phones, More Into Fort Dix Prison
Feds: Hudson County Pair Used Drones To Fly Steroids, Phones, More Into Fort Dix Prison Two Hudson County men used drones to smuggle steroids, syringes, cellphones and pot into the federal correctional facility at Fort Dix, authorities charged. Federal agents arrested Nicolo Denichilo, 38, of Jersey City, on Thursday after learning of a scheduled drop at the Lakehurst facility, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday. Also charged is Adrian Goolcharran, 35, of Union City, who initially was a fugitive and soon after was in custody. At least seven drone deliveries of contraband were made to inmates dating back to July 2018 , the U.S. attorney said. Over the course of the inv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Clarkstown
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Ex-Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence Transferred To Halfway House From Prison Ex-Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence Transferred To Halfway House From Prison
Ex-Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence Transferred To Halfway House From Prison Former Ramapo town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, who was sentenced to 2 1/2  years in prison on fraud and other charges, has been moved from a Pennsylvania prison into a halfway house. St. Lawrence, 69, was recently transferred from the Federal Prison Camp Canaan, in Waymart, Pennsylvania, to an unnamed residential reentry center, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' public information office. Ramapo's supervisor from 2000 to May 2016, St. Lawrence was convicted of 20 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy on May 19, 2017, following a four-week trial in federal …

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by Kathy Reakes
Armonk
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Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion
Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion Westchester native Earl Simmons - you may know him by his stage name, DMX - is a free man after spending a year behind bars for tax evasion. Last year, the 48-year-old rapper was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Simmons, a Mount Vernon native who grew up in Yonkers, was confined to his Westchester home. His home confinement was revoked last January when he failed a drug test. On Friday, Jan. 25, Simmons was released, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He had been housed at the Gilmer Federal Correctional Institution in Glenville, West Virginia. S…

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by Zak Failla
Armonk
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Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion
Westchester Native DMX Released From Federal Prison For Tax Evasion Westchester native Earl Simmons - you may know him by his stage name, DMX - is a free man after spending a year behind bars for tax evasion. Last year, the 48-year-old rapper was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Simmons, a Mount Vernon native who grew up in Yonkers, was confined to his Westchester home. His home confinement was revoked last January when he failed a drug test. On Friday, Jan. 25, Simmons was released, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He had been housed at the Gilmer Federal Correctional Institution in Glenville, West Virginia. S…

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by Zak Failla
Shelton
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FCI Danbury Correctional Officer Admits To Sexually Abusing Inmate FCI Danbury Correctional Officer Admits To Sexually Abusing Inmate
FCI Danbury Correctional Officer Admits To Sexually Abusing Inmate A Correctional Officer in Fairfield County has admitted to sexually abusing an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury. Carlos Sanchez, of Middlebury, pleaded guilty this week to sexually abusing an inmate at FCI Danbury earlier this year, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced. According to court documents and statements made in court, Sanchez was employed as a correctional officer at FCI Danbury. On two occasions in July and August, Sanchez engaged in sexual activity with a female inmate at the prison. Sanchez, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a ward…

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by Zak Failla
Ramapo
Police & Fire
St. Lawrence Due To Start Prison Term St. Lawrence Due To Start Prison Term
St. Lawrence Due To Start Prison Term After two months getting his affairs in order, convicted former Ramapo town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence will begin life in a federal prison on Thursday. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District, Thursday is the official start date of his 2 1/2 years in prison for securities and wire fraud and conspiracy. St. Lawrence, of Wesley Hills, was sentenced to 30 months, which could be reduced by 54 days a year for good behavior under federal rules, was also fined $75,000.  The Federal Bureau of Prisons said they cannot say where the disgraced former political powerh…

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by Kathy Reakes