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Temple Shooting: 28-Year-Old Federally Charged After Gunshots At Albany Synagogue
The man accused of opening fire at a New York synagogue on the first day of Hanukkah has been federally charged.
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, age 28, of Schenectady, appeared in Albany federal court on Friday, Dec. 8, where he was arraigned on one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm.
According to the criminal complaint, Alkhader approached Albany’s Temple Israel, located on New Scotland Avenue, at around 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7 armed with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun.
He then fired the weapon twice into the air, prosecutors allege.
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South Jersey To NY Journey Ends With 250 Pounds Of Coke Seized, Pair In Federal Custody
Federal agents followed a tractor-trailer loaded with nearly 250 pounds of cocaine for more than 75 miles from South Jersey to New York before busting the driver and a co-conspirator in Yonkers, authorities said.
They were right behind when Eddie Velez-Pena, 33, of Yonkers, stopped the tractor-trailer in the Hunterdon County town of Hampton, NJ, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said.
They then followed him and the rig north to the border of Yonkers and the Bronx, the U.S. attorney said.
There Velez-Pena transferred multiple duffle bags to Robin Medina-Fabian, 38, of the Bro…
Feds: 6 Drug Ring Members Trafficked Heroin From Paterson To Atlantic City That Killed 48 Users
Six reputed members of a drug network trafficked heroin from Paterson to Atlantic City that was connected to 48 overdose deaths and 84 other ODs, federal authorities charged.
The FBI used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” “Pandora,” and “9½,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Camden names six reputed gang members accused of conspiring to move more than a kil…
Feds: Ex-Con Had 20 Pounds Of Heroin, Coke, $100,000 Cash, Gun In Union County Home
Federal agents seized a combined 20 pounds of heroin and cocaine from an ex-con caught running a drug mill from his Union County apartment, authorities said.
Brad Toby, 35, of Linden served three years in state prison on a drug conviction before being released in 2016, records show.
Federal authorities who found him back at it also seized $100,000 in suspected proceeds, drug packaging materials – including scales and kilo presses – and a handgun with ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
Toby, who's believed to be part of a larger drug ring operating in operating in New Jersey an…
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…
