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N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says

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By S.P. Sullivan | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on December 13, 2016 at 5:17 PM, updated December 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM

TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.

Marquice Prather, 37, was arrested Friday on records tampering charges and released without bail, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice, which brought the charges.

Officials say the State Police Office of Professional Standards began investigating the trooper after several woman lodged complaints about his behavior on the road.

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Widow of N.J. trooper disappointed by court decision to parole husband’s killer

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Werner Foerster, killed during a traffic stop in 1973, escaped East Germany as a young man. Who would have thought that in 2014 the USA would be more like Police State East Germany ?

Widow of N.J. trooper disappointed by court decision to parole husband’s killer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, 6:41 PM    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, 11:41 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

She has been largely quiet over the decades about the murder of her state trooper husband on the New Jersey Turnpike as his death became entangled in a crime involving a black anti-government movement and an armed prison escape by a woman who remains one of the nation’s most wanted fugitives.

But as one of Trooper Werner Foerster’s killers moved a step closer to freedom this week, his wife agreed on Tuesday to discuss some of their life together. She touched on her husband’s escape from communist East Germany as a young man and his reason for joining the state police after the couple moved to New Jersey and had a son.

“He just wanted to have a better life for us,” said Rosa Foerster, 73, who lives in Florida.

On Monday, a panel of appellate judges overturned a 2010 state Parole Board ruling denying parole for 77-year-old Sundiata Acoli, a member of the Black Liberation Army who was traveling with Joanne Chesimard and another man when they were pulled over for a faulty taillight by police in East Brunswick on May 2, 1973.

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