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Englewood
Police & Fire
Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood
Guatemalan National Held By Feds Charged With Raping Pre-Teen In Englewood A 21-year-old Guatemalan national seized by federal authorities has been charged with raping a pre-teen in Englewood last summer. Melvin Zacarias-Esquivel, who's been living in an apartment over a Colombian restaurant on West Palisade Avenue, remained in federal custody at the Elizabeth detention center on Friday, April 26, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday that members of his Special Victims Unit charged Melvin Zacarias-Esquivel with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment for forcibly having intercourse with the victim. They then served him with a c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Suffolk MA
Police & Fire
Fentanyl Bust: Deported Man Busted Selling 5 Kilos Of Drug To Cops, Feds Say Fentanyl Bust: Deported Man Busted Selling 5 Kilos Of Drug To Cops, Feds Say
Fentanyl Bust: Deported Man Busted Selling 5 Kilos Of Drug To Cops, Feds Say A Chelsea man who'd previously been deported after being convicted of a drug charge in 2020 was arrested and charged with selling more than 11 pounds of fentanyl to an undercover officer, federal officials said.  Luis Alberto German-Peguero, aka “Alberto Chirry,” 32, was indicted this week on charges of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, distribution of and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, illegal reentry of a deported alien, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He has been held in federa…

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by Josh Lanier
Norfolk
Police & Fire
Brockton Man Coerced 3 Kids To Make Pornography: Feds Brockton Man Coerced 3 Kids To Make Pornography: Feds
Brockton Man Coerced 3 Kids To Make Pornography: Feds A federal grand jury indicted a 45-year-old Brockton man this week on charges he coerced three minors into making child porn for him, authorities said.  Zaire Aquil Lodge, 45, is charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of receipt of child pornography, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Police arrested him on Monday, Jan. 23, and he will be held in federal custody, pending further notice.  Investigators said Lodge employed, used, persuaded, induced and coerced three minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of produci…

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by Josh Lanier
Bucks
Police & Fire
Philly Man Who Sexually Abused 8-Year-Old On Video Learns His Fate Philly Man Who Sexually Abused 8-Year-Old On Video Learns His Fate
Philly Man Who Sexually Abused 8-Year-Old On Video Learns His Fate A Philadelphia man convicted of sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl for years and recording his crimes on video will spend decades behind bars, authorities announced.  Herbert Smith, 33, was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, said US Attorney Jacqueline Romero in a statement Thursday, Nov. 17.  According to investigators, Smith began abusing his victim when she was only 8 years old. Authorities say that on multiple occasions for a period of two years, he gave the child sleeping medication and then recorded himself sexually assaul…

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by Mac Bullock
Essex NJ
News
Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another
Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another A Newark police detective who frisked an ex-con suspected of firing and then tossing a gun found him carrying another one, federal authorities said. Kevin Hills, 21, had been seen on surveillance video shooting what turned out to be a 9mm Jiminez semiautomatic pistol after he got out of a sedan on Chadwick Avenue near Clinton Avenue last June, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Officers in the area found the gun after one of them reported hearing the shots, he said. A warranted search of the Lincoln LS that Hills had gotten out of turned up 64 rounds of various ammunition, according t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ocean
News
Feds: Jersey Shore Sex Offender Crashes Car With Guns, High-Capacity Mags, Wearing Body Armor Feds: Jersey Shore Sex Offender Crashes Car With Guns, High-Capacity Mags, Wearing Body Armor
Feds: Jersey Shore Sex Offender Crashes Car With Guns, High-Capacity Mags, Wearing Body Armor A convicted sex offender from Toms River who police said was wearing a tactical vest and carrying two guns and three high-capacity magazines when he crashed his car on Route 35 last month has been charged federally, authorities said. Jeremy W. Barringer, 46, also had an empty handgun holster on his hip when Mantoloking and Bay Head officers asked him to step out of the vehicle following the 3 a.m. single-vehicle crash on Oct. 24 near Herbert Street, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. In plain view on the backseat floorboard was a 5.56-millimeter semi-automatic rifle that turned out…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Nassau
News
Pagans Leader From Long Island Sentenced After Gun Found In NJ Stop Following PA Party Pagans Leader From Long Island Sentenced After Gun Found In NJ Stop Following PA Party
Pagans Leader From Long Island Sentenced After Gun Found In NJ Stop Following PA Party A Long Island man who was the former national president of the Pagans was sentenced Thursday, Oct. 14 to a plea-bargained 33 months in federal prison for having a gun while returning home through New Jersey from a party in Pennsylvania. Keith Richter – a 62-year-old ex-con known as “Conan the Barbarian” – was returning to his Bay Shore home from a Pagan's Motorcycle Club party in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when he was stopped in Mercer County, New Jersey this past February. Police found him carrying a loaded .45-caliber Ruger P345 handgun, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
South Passaic
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Feds: Imprisoned Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Warwick, NY Feds: Imprisoned Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Warwick, NY
Feds: Imprisoned Paterson Dealer Admits Selling Heroin That Killed User From Warwick, NY A twice-imprisoned drug dealer from Paterson admitted he sold the heroin that killed a user from Orange County, NY. Shameik "Homeboy" Byrd, 31, who’s currently serving a state prison sentence, told a federal judge via videoconference in Newark that the death of 25-year-old Kean Cabral of Warwick was caused by heroin from the batch of “Trap Queen” that he’d been selling. State authorities tried to prosecute Byrd and a couple who they said bought the drugs from him and sold some to Cabral in April 2016. They were over-ruled, however, by the New Jersey Supreme Court, which said they didn’t ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hudson
Police & Fire
Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands
Law Enforcement Partnership Puts Jersey City Ex-Con Caught With Loaded Gun In Feds' Hands A Jersey City ex-con caught with a gun remained in federal custody thanks to a unique partnership of law enforcement agencies, authorities said. Malik Holloway, 28, was brought before a federal magistrate judge via teleconference Friday. City police had seen him take the gun from another person the night of July 13, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A short time later, Holloway tipped away from a group of people with the weapon in his waistband as police approached on Neptune Avenue, he said. An officer stopped Holloway, who smelled of marijuana, patted him down and found a .9mm Glock M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ramapo
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Monsey Hanukkah Attack Suspect Incompetent To Stand Trial, Psychiatrist Says Monsey Hanukkah Attack Suspect Incompetent To Stand Trial, Psychiatrist Says
Monsey Hanukkah Attack Suspect Incompetent To Stand Trial, Psychiatrist Says A psychiatrist hired by to evaluate Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack at a rabbi's house, has found he is incompetent to stand trial, his defense attorney said. In a statement on Monday, Jan. 27, his attorney Michael Sussman said that Dr. Andrew Levin found that "Mr. Thomas was not competent to stand trial." Thomas, of Greenwood Lake in Orange County, is charged with federal hate crimes for the Dec. 28 attack on attendees of a Hanukkah party at the rabbi's Monsey home that left a 72-year-old man in a coma. Earlier Story: Monsey Stabbing Suspect Interviewed By Police…

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by Kathy Reakes
Fairfield
News
Bridgeport Woman Admits To Escaping From Federal Custody Bridgeport Woman Admits To Escaping From Federal Custody
Bridgeport Woman Admits To Escaping From Federal Custody A Fairfield County woman who was convicted of mailing poison-laced food to federal and military officials has admitted to attempting to escape custody. Bridgeport resident Barbara March, 73, has pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court to escape from federal custody, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced. In October 2006, March was sentenced in the District of Columbia to 15 years in prison for mailing baked goods laced with rat poison to Supreme Court justices, FBI officials and military leaders. On April 26 last year, March signed out of her halfway house in Washington, D.C., where she w…

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by Zak Failla