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Newark Woman Pleads Guilty to Abandoning Car, Then Reporting It Stolen to Reap Insurance Payout
Janette Bautista, 57, pleaded guilty to third-degree insurance fraud before Essex County Superior Court Judge Peter V. Ryan. The state recommended a state prison sentence of three years. In pleading guilty, Bautista admitted that in November 2011 she reported her car...
Appellate Panel Affirms Division on Civil Rights Finding that MVC Did Not Discriminate Against Agoraphobic Woman
Robin B. Wojtkowiak, of Voorhees Township, Camden County, wrote the MVC in August 2012, requesting that the agency waive its in-person renewal requirement because of her disability, and offering to supply a recent digital photograph of herself to meet the...
New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Suspends License of Pharmacist Who Illegally Distributed Potentially Addictive Pain-Management Drugs Nationwide, in Online Scheme
“This pharmacist chose to put profits ahead of public safety and professional integrity,” Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. “He provided an addictive, dangerous, and often-abused drug to patients who had not actually been seen and...
Mercer County Man Sentenced to State Prison for Distributing Child Pornography on the Internet – Charged by Attorney General and ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Operation Predator Alert
Celalletti “Steve” Koc, 27, of Hamilton, N.J., was sentenced today to five years in state prison, including 2 ½ years of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Timothy P. Lydon in Mercer County. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 6 to a second-degree...
Forty-Six New York City Residents Indicted for Stealing $204,791 from TD Bank by Using Phony Check Writing Scam in Atlantic City Casinos
The Division of Criminal Justice obtained the indictment on January 28 from the Atlantic County grand jury, which charged each of the 46 defendants, all residents of New York City, with second-degree conspiracy, second-degree theft and second-degree money laundering....