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Million-Dollar Ticket: Big Winner Sold At Central Jersey Convenience Store Million-Dollar Ticket: Big Winner Sold At Central Jersey Convenience Store
Million-Dollar Ticket: Big Winner Sold At Central Jersey Convenience Store A convenience store in Monmouth County sold a $1 million lottery ticket, officials said. The Jersey Cash 5 ticket was purchased at Laurel Market on Laurel Avenue in Hazlet, the New Jersey Lottery said in a news release. The ticket matched five numbers in the drawing on Wednesday, May 15. The winning numbers were 8, 14, 16, 22, and 25. The XTRA number was 3. This is the second Jersey Cash 5 ticket in Monmouth County to match five numbers in three days. A ticket was sold in Tinton Falls in the drawing on Monday, May 13, splitting the $1,800,840 jackpot with another ticket purchased…

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by Chris Spiker
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Camden Ex-Con Who Left Gun In Atlantic City Hotel Room Sentenced: Prosecutors Camden Ex-Con Who Left Gun In Atlantic City Hotel Room Sentenced: Prosecutors
Camden Ex-Con Who Left Gun In Atlantic City Hotel Room Sentenced: Prosecutors A Camden man will spend several years in prison after he was convicted of leaving a gun in an Atlantic City hotel room, authorities said. Quadir Webb, 31, was sentenced on Wednesday, May 15 to 10 years in state prison, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. He'll be eligible for parole after serving five years. A jury found Webb guilty on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, second-degree certain persons not to possess a handgun, fourth-degree possession of hollow point bullets, and fourth-degree possession of a large capaci…

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by Chris Spiker
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NJ Transit Changing Refund Policy After Criticism NJ Transit Changing Refund Policy After Criticism
NJ Transit Changing Refund Policy After Criticism NJ Transit is continuing to tweak its ticket policy. NJ Transit announced that refunds will be made available for unused one-way tickets purchased prior to Saturday, June 1. The refund policy will also apply to rail 10-trip tickets.  Tickets purchased on or after June 1 must be used by the end of July and will not be eligible for refunds. Last month, NJ Transit announced all tickets purchased prior to July 1 will expire on July 31, regardless of their original date of purchase. The policy prompted criticism from straphangers, who worried they would lose out on tickets they purchased b…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Newark Woman, 21, Gets Dozen Years For Jersey City Robbery Spree, Clerk Shooting UPDATE: Newark Woman, 21, Gets Dozen Years For Jersey City Robbery Spree, Clerk Shooting
Update: Newark Woman, 21, Gets Dozen Years For Jersey City Robbery Spree, Clerk Shooting 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A 21-year-old Newark woman is headed to federal prison for 12 years for her role in a violent robbery spree in Jersey City in which a fast-food clerk was shot in the chest. Siobhan Chandler will have to serve at least a decade before she'll be eligible for release because there's no parole in the federal prison system.Chandler had hoped for leniency when she took a deal from the government and admitted she was with ex-con Rodney Williams when he robbed a gas station and store at gunpoint and then shot a restaurant clerk during a third holdup last Nov. 14 Police captured bo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Disturbing Video Shows Infant Being Abused By 37-Year-Old NJ Woman, Police Say Disturbing Video Shows Infant Being Abused By 37-Year-Old NJ Woman, Police Say
Disturbing Video Shows Infant Being Abused By 37-Year-Old NJ Woman, Police Say Police have announced the arrest of a New Jersey woman seen in a disturbing video being circulated on social media. Multiple people called Trenton police on Wednesday, May 15, to report the video in which Vivian M. Harrell, 37, abuses an 8-week-old child, the department said. Harrell is seen covering an infant’s face, possibly blocking its airway, and speaking to the child in a vulgar and derogatory way, authorities said. Harrell was subsequently arrested and charged with second-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The Division of Child Protection and Permanency is …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Trafficker Who Mailed Hundreds Of Pounds Of Coke From PR To South Jersey, Philly Gets 10 Years Trafficker Who Mailed Hundreds Of Pounds Of Coke From PR To South Jersey, Philly Gets 10 Years
Trafficker Who Mailed Hundreds Of Pounds Of Coke From PR To South Jersey, Philly Gets 10 Years 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A manager of a crew that purchased hundreds of pounds of cocaine in Puerto Rico that they shipped to South Jersey and Philadelphia via overnight mail was sentenced to a plea-bargained 10 years in federal prison. Philly resident Jose Gonzalez, 51, and his co-conspirators flew to San Juan on dozens of commercial flights from Philadelphia International Airport, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Phillip Sellinger said. They paid cash there for multi-kilo quantities of coke, then used overnight delivery from U.S. Post Office branches in San Juan to ship it to various addresses in Philade…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Donald Trump's Boeing 757 Clipped Parked Jet In FL After Jersey Shore Rally: FAA Donald Trump's Boeing 757 Clipped Parked Jet In FL After Jersey Shore Rally: FAA
Donald Trump's Boeing 757 Clipped Parked Jet In FL After Jersey Shore Rally: FAA Former President Donald Trump's plane clipped a private jet at a Florida airport after his rally on the Jersey Shore, according to flight records. A preliminary incident report from the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed a Boeing 757 with a registration number "N757AF" hit the rear elevator of a parked VistaJet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport early on Sunday, May 12. The airport is about five miles from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The 757's registration number matches the one on the tail of Trump's personal plane nicknamed "Trump For…

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by Chris Spiker
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NJ Man Sentenced In Case In Which GF's Daughter Was Paralyzed, Blinded By Beating: Prosecutor NJ Man Sentenced In Case In Which GF's Daughter Was Paralyzed, Blinded By Beating: Prosecutor
NJ Man Sentenced In Case In Which GF's Daughter Was Paralyzed, Blinded By Beating: Prosecutor A Vineland man has been sentenced to three years in New Jersey State Prison on a third-degree child endangerment charge in the case of a 4-year-old girl who was left paralyzed and blind by a beating, authorities said. Ricardo A. Ferrera, 30, was sentenced last week, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office. Ferrera still faces more serious charges including first-degree attempted homicide in an open indictment in an unrelated shooting, according to a source familiar with the case. Ferrera was accused of lying to police when he helped his girlfriend, the child’s mother, take t…

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by Jon Craig
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Fugitive Hunters Bear No Responsibility For Accused Killer's Suicide In Newark Park: Grand Jury Fugitive Hunters Bear No Responsibility For Accused Killer's Suicide In Newark Park: Grand Jury
Fugitive Hunters Bear No Responsibility For Accused Killer's Suicide In Newark Park: Grand Jury UPDATE: A team of fugitive hunters bear no responsibility for the death of a Newark man who shot himself rather than be captured, a grand jury has found. Don Jones, 50, was wanted for a homicide in Union County when members of the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and city police chased him into West Side Park last Aug. 29, 2023. Jones pulled a handgun from his waistband, dashed to an open field and was surrounded by police, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said on Wednesday, May 15. He then dropped to his knees, pointed the firearm at his head and p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jumper Survives Plunge Off Victory Bridge In Middlesex County: Police Jumper Survives Plunge Off Victory Bridge In Middlesex County: Police
Victory Bridge Jumper Woodbridge Perth Amboy A person who jumped from the Victory Bridge in Middlesex County miraculously survived on Wednesday, May 15, Daily Voice has learned. Marine units from Perth Amboy, Woodbridge, and the New Jersey State Police responded to the bridge that brings Route 35 over the Raritan River around 3:30 p.m., Sayreville Police Lt. James Novak said. They found the jumper — alive — and brought them to Raritan Bay Hospital in Perth Amboy. The jumper's name and injuries are unknown at this time.  Ten years ago, fences were installed along the bridge to prevent suicides, NJ Advance Media reporte…

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by Jon Craig
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'Patient Broker' From Balto Goes To Federal Prison For Preying On NJ Drug Addicts 'Patient Broker' From Balto Goes To Federal Prison For Preying On NJ Drug Addicts
'Patient Broker' From Balto Goes To Federal Prison For Preying On NJ Drug Addicts A Baltimore man was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for paying people to bribe drug addicts in New Jersey to go to specific rehab centers -- some as far as California. John Devlin, 37, is one of seven people who took deals from the government and admitted participating in a plot to defraud health insurance companies through patient brokering in several states, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. The confessed schemers enlisted "recruiters" to pay users addicted to heroin and other drugs with "robust" private health insurance several thousand dollars to ent…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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EXCLUSIVE: NJ Man Awaiting Trial For Child Porn Dies By Drinking Kerosene EXCLUSIVE: NJ Man Awaiting Trial For Child Porn Dies By Drinking Kerosene
Exclusive: NJ Man Awaiting Trial For Child Porn Dies By Drinking Kerosene An East Rutherford man awaiting trial on child porn charges took his own life by drinking kerosene in the parking lot of a machine shop in Ringwood, multiple sources told Daily Voice. Building employees found the body of Michael Thomas Scheuerman, 41, in his car around 7 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, according to a police report. "He burned himself from the inside," a law enforcement source said Wednesday. "He was found hugging another bottle, apparently in case the first didn't do the job." Ringwood officers who responded to Bach Tools on Executive Parkway early Tuesday found Scheuerman's body in…

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by Jerry DeMarco