police blotter

The FBI and the IRS-Criminal Investigation team arrested three men at their homes this morning on charges they stole approximately $6.7 million from an investor, in part by claiming special access to shares in the social media company Facebook Inc., prior to the company’s initial public offering (IPO). The announcement came today by U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.

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Prosecutors say a former security guard at a northwestern New Jersey nursing home has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a disabled patient.

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A northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a Newark grocery store worker who was trying to break up a fight outside the business on Christmas Eve 2010.

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A southern New Jersey woman who scammed relatives and others out of cash, meals and even a wedding by falsely claiming she had bladder cancer will likely escape a jail sentence.

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A Texas man has been sentenced in New Jersey to 71 months in prison for a stock fraud scheme involving computer hackers.

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Federal prosecutors say a northern New Jersey man who used hidden cameras to inappropriately record several young girls in his home has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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A New York City bar owner has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in a narcotics conspiracy in which two friends were found fatally shot inside their SUV on a northern New Jersey street.

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Kevin Hannah, aka "ICU," was sentenced today to ten years in state prison on a first-degree charge of distributing the hallucinogenic drug PCP.

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Three former employees of a company that federal prosecutors say preyed on elderly timeshare owners have pleaded guilty.

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A former central New Jersey school administrator has admitted to possessing child pornography.

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