Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Convicted Hackensack Drug Dealer Gets 12 Years In Morris County Jail Convicted Hackensack Drug Dealer Gets 12 Years In Morris County Jail
Convicted Hackensack Drug Dealer Gets 12 Years In Morris County Jail A Hackensack man with a history of narcotics trafficking was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison, authorities said. Michael T. Swanson, 42, dealt cocaine in Morris and surrounding counties before he was caught. He pleaded guilty to distribution of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute controlled dangerous substances, according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office. Swanson, in 2011, had been convicted of similar offenses in Passaic County. He must serve at least 53 months before earning parole eligibility. Swanson, who was dealing drugs out of Morris County between January 2017 and …

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by Paul Milo
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
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Vernon Family Displaced By House Fire: 'They Lost Everything' Vernon Family Displaced By House Fire: 'They Lost Everything'
Vernon Family Displaced By House Fire: 'They Lost Everything' A Vernon family was displaced over the weekend in a house fire. The Keough family lost everything in the Saturday evening blaze that spread quickly from the garage to the rest of the house around 9:20 p.m. Neil Keough's adult son and his girlfriend safely made it out of the house, which had partially collapsed and was deemed too dangerous to enter when firefighters arrived. Seven fire companies responded with Vernon police, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office and fire marshals on scene Sunday morning investigating. "All I care about is my kids," Neil Keough apparently told Sue Jensen, w…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
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'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex 'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex
'Operation Home Alone': 16 Nabbed, Including Ridgewood Officer, Trying To Meet Kids For Sex A Ridgewood police officer who is accused of arranging a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl was one of 16 men who were nabbed in a similar undercover sting by state and local authorities, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday. Others include a barbershop owner from Passaic, a food delivery driver from Fairview, a supermarket employee/deejay from Hawthorne and two Garfield men – one of them a rideshare company driver and another a convicted sex offender awaiting sentencing on child porn possession charges. All thought they were communicatin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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FOUND! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife FOUND! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife
Found! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife UPDATE: A search-and-rescue team that numbered in the dozens on Saturday found a 34-year-old Hopatcong man whose wife reported him missing the night before. Kevin Fawthrop was hospitalized for hypothermia after members of the Ramapo Search and Rescue Team and co-workers from Blue Diamond Waste Removal found him in a heavily wooded area about a mile and a half from his home, responders said. "He was confused, disoriented and hypothermia had set in," Hopatcong police said. Also participating in the five-square-mile search were Hopatcong police and firefighters, Jefferson firefighters, the Su…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Mine Hill Driver With Suspended License Admits Having Heroin, Giving Police Bogus ID Mine Hill Driver With Suspended License Admits Having Heroin, Giving Police Bogus ID
Mine Hill Driver With Suspended License Admits Having Heroin, Giving Police Bogus ID A suspended driver from Mine Hill admitted that he had heroin in his car and gave police a bogus identity when he was stopped. Michael Collette, 33, pleaded guilty to drug possession, hindering his arrest and driving while suspended in Newton on Thursday as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Sussex County Prosecutor Francis A. Koch said. Andover police arrested Collette after stopping him for a minor traffic offense Dec. 14, Koch said. Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Critchley Jr. scheduled sentencing for March 22.

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by Cecilia Levine
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Landing Man Showed Woman Bomb Before Detonating It Near Lake, Prosecutor Says Landing Man Showed Woman Bomb Before Detonating It Near Lake, Prosecutor Says
Landing Man Showed Woman Bomb Before Detonating It Near Lake, Prosecutor Says A Landing man was arrested after showing a woman a homemade bomb and then driving to a nearby lake to detonate it, said authorities who charged him. Christopher Faschan, 31 of the Landing section of Roxbury, drove to the victim's home and showed her the bomb, saying it was the type that "you could stick to the bottom of a car," Sussex County Prosecutor Francis Koch said in a statement. Faschan drove to Lake Lackawanna where he detonated the device -- either near or in the lake, authorities said. The explosion was heard by the alleged victim and multiple residents of the …

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by Cecilia Levine
Rutherford, NJ
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Prosecutor: 5 Charged, Pot, THC Oils, Edibles, Gun, $18,250 Seized In Lyndhurst, Rutherford Prosecutor: 5 Charged, Pot, THC Oils, Edibles, Gun, $18,250 Seized In Lyndhurst, Rutherford
Prosecutor: 5 Charged, Pot, THC Oils, Edibles, Gun, $18,250 Seized In Lyndhurst, Rutherford Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives smashed a drug ring that they said operated out of three homes in Lyndhurst and Rutherford -- arresting five people and seizing several pounds of pot, THC oils and edibles, mushrooms, drug packaging, a handgun and $18,250 in suspected drug cash. Charged were Theappratan Borriraj and Priscila Pisco, both 26, of Kearney Place in Lyndhurst; and Brittany Ramirez, 26, Diana Guillen, 21, and Vladilen Napuri, 29, of the same Franklin Place apartment in Rutherford. All face various drug counts.  Borraj and Pisco were also charged with child endangerment, Borri…

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by Jerry DeMarco