California Rig Driver Caught With Kilos Of Heroin, Fentanyl In Morris Gets 27 Months In Fed Pen
A Salvadoran national will likely be deported after serving a 27-month plea-bargained federal prison term for driving a tractor-trailer that contained 22 pounds of heroin and nearly nine pounds of fentanyl when authorities stopped it in Morris County.
Joselito Colindres, 42, of Riverside, CA, previously admitted in U.S. District Court in Newark that he knew the drugs were in the trailer when he got to Pennsylvania, but he kept going to New Jersey, anyway.
Authorities converged on the rig in North Jersey on Oct. 21, 2018, arresting Colindres, who they said had been living in the country lega…
NJ Ex-Con Gets 25 Years In Fed Pen For Flooding Bergen, Passaic, Rockland Suburbs With Heroin
A Paterson ex-con is headed to federal prison for 25 years for distributing heroin by the pound in Bergen, Passaic and Rockland counties.
Reinaldo “Memo” Rodriguez, 30, was part of a network that that stretched from the Bronx to Paterson and into suburban towns in all three counties, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
One ring member, Edwin Lopez of Elmwood Park, was sentenced to 13½ years in federal prison in July 2017 as part of a plea. Another, Carolina Almonte of the Bronx, also negotiated a deal and got four months in May 2017.
Rodriguez opted instead for a trial, whi…
Feds: Quartet Stole $450,000 In Checks From Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex Mailboxes
Four men stole $450,000 in checks from mailboxes in Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex, and Middlesex counties, said federal authorities who caught three and were seeking the fourth.
“Some of the mail collection boxes were broken into with the use of pry bars, usually late at night,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday.
Although the checks weren’t made payable to them, the defendants deposited the checks at ATMs and then “withdrew the proceeds from the accounts before the fraud was discovered,” usually in less than 24 hours, Carpenito said.
Charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud…
