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Trenton NJ, a New York man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for transporting multiple items of child sexual abuse into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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Ridgewood NJ, according to the Wall Street Journal ,one of the earliest public debates about blacklisting TikTok in the U.S. isn’t taking place in Washington. It is happening in South Dakota’s second-most populous city. The Rapid City council on Tuesday will consider a proposal to ban TikTok (TikTok has 1 billion monthly active users.) from city-owned devices and networks, and to prohibit city agencies from using the app. Championing the idea is a councilman—and potential mayoral candidate—who calls TikTok a security threat.
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Paramus NJ, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging LAMOR WHITEHEAD with defrauding one of his parishioners out of part of her retirement savings, attempting to extort and defraud a businessman, and lying to the FBI. WHITEHEAD was arrested this morning and will be presented in federal court today before United States Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
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Cresskill NJ, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrests of AARON PERRY (DOB 7/19/1969) of Dunwoody, Georgia; ALI MUHAMMAD (DOB: 4/04/1989) of Atlanta, Georgia; KEDRAIN BURDETTE (DOB: 7/08/1971) of Marietta, Georgia; RODERICK CARMICHAEL (DOB: 1/03/1972) of Stockbridge, Georgia; and TAURUS SANCHEZ BOONE (DOB: 2/08/1981) of Atlanta, Georgia on charges related to an armed home invasion/attempted murder/shooting investigation in Cresskill, NJ. The arrests are the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office (“BCPO”) under the direction of Chief Jason Love and the Cresskill Police Department (“CPD”) under the direction of Chief James Domville.
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Saddle River NJ, four people have been charged for their roles in a kickback conspiracy involving COVID-19 testing that defrauded federal health insurance programs, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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A Florida man who previously resided in New Jersey was arrested and charged with defrauding multiple victims out of more than $1 million through an “upfront-fee” scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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Ridgewood NJ , a former Ridgewood Parking enforcement agent who was arrested in Ridgewood in 2012 for writing bogus tickets , has been arrested as a suspect in a Friday afternoon bank robbery in the Village of Greenwood Lake.
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Trenton NJ, statement from NJ Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin on the threat to New Jersey synagogues:
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Trenton NJ, A federal indictment was unsealed today charging four Chinese nationals, including three Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officers, in connection with a long-running intelligence campaign targeting individuals in the United States to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced.
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Newark NJ, An indictment was unsealed today charging three Iranian nationals with allegedly orchestrating a scheme to hack into the computer networks of multiple U.S. victims, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced today.
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Secaucus NJ, An Iowa man admitted robbing a bank in Secaucus, New Jersey, in January 2017, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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Washington DC, the abandoned laptop that revealed Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealing remains an important story, according to voters, many of whom think it could have changed the 2020 election.
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Washington DC, the FBI, working with its state and local partners during two weeks in August, identified and located 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation offenses and located 37 actively missing children during a nationwide enforcement campaign, dubbed “Operation Cross Country.” The FBI-led nationwide initiative focused on identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking and investigating and arresting individuals and criminal enterprises involved in both child sex trafficking and human trafficking.
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Fairview NJ, according to police author Salman Rushdie was attacked and stabbed at least twice on stage Friday before giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
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