FBI (May 11, 2015)–Preliminary statistics released today by the FBI show that 51 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2014. This is an increase of almost 89 percent when compared to the 27 officers killed in 2013. (Note: From 1980–2014, an average of 64 law enforcement officers have been feloniously killed per year. The 2013 total, 27, was the lowest during this 35-year period.) By region, 17 officers died as a result of criminal acts that occurred in the South, 14 officers in the West, eight officers in the Midwest, eight in the Northeast, and four in Puerto Rico.

WOODBURY NJ–Antwan Hood (DOB 8/2/83), of Paulsboro, pleaded guilty today (5/8) to second-degree aggravated arson and contempt of a court order, acknowledging he brought gasoline and matches to a West New Street home on 4/3/14 and set a fire.

Hood also said he knowingly violated a restraining order, a fourth-degree crime, on the same date. He was arrested at the New St. residence, igniting a pile of leaves against the wall of a house. He has remained in jail since then in default of $75,000 bail.

CAMDEN, N.J. – A member of a criminal street gang that used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison on drug conspiracy and weapons charges, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

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WOODBURY NJ May 8,2015– Daron Trent (DOB 10/17/84), of Hamilton NJ, described as a known gang member and the accused murder of a 25-year-old Paulsboro man, today was denied in his request to be released from jail and placed on home electronic detention while undergoing surgery and rehabilitation.

Trent’s lawyer, Frank Trosky, did not specify the nature of Trent’s \”substantial medical condition,\” but said Gloucester County’s top correctional official agreed his treatment could not be addressed with Trent in jail. Therefore, Trosky said he was asking for a modification in his client’s $750,000 bail.

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Gloucester City taxpayers spent $400,000 repairing Freedom Pier. The plans to build a waterfront restaurant on the site are presently in limbo. (CNBNews file photo)

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 LOCAL RESTAURANT/DINER UPDATE— May 2015 was suppose to be the month the groundbreaking ceremony for Ott’s on the Waterfront restaurant was going to be held. From what we have heard mayor and council are still in negotiations with the principal investors, Donald Bigley and Jeffrey Lucas. The parties met earlier this month and are expected to meet again sometime this week. Since the project was announced in 2012 the city has said the sticking point continues to be the developer’s financing. However, in March, a source told us, off the record, that Bigley and Lucas do not want to lease the land from the city. Instead, they want to buy it, but the city is asking too much money. 

TRENTON NJ May 8, 2015 (CNBNews.net)–New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary O\’Dowd announced today more than $6.3 million in grants for scientific research to develop treatments and cures for disabilities associated with traumatic brain injury. These grant awards are approved by the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research.

In New Jersey, approximately 175,000 New Jersey residents suffer from traumatic injuries that damage the brain, and 12,000 new injuries occur each year that require inpatient or outpatient treatment. The economic consequences of physical disabilities due to traumatic brain injury are enormous.

CAMDEN (May 5, 2015) – Men\’s soccer senior midfielder Joe Auleta (Hammonton, NJ/Hammonton) was named the Athlete of the Year, baseball coach Dennis Barth captured the Edward C. Cialella Coach of the Year Award and senior women\’s soccer midfielder Laura Rathof (National Park, NJ/Gateway Regional) won the Wilbur W. Wilson Scholar-Athlete Award to highlight the annual Rutgers University-Camden Athletic Awards Banquet here Tuesday night.
 
Junior lacrosse attack Krystal Valianti (Oaklyn, NJ/Collingswood) was honored with the William P. Carty Memorial Award as the Most Courageous Athlete.
 
The school also recognized athletes honored as the Most Valuable Players and Most Dedicated Players in 19 sports, as well as 38 Senior Award winners. The Senior Awards are given to student-athletes who have either exhausted their eligibility in a particular sport or are graduating.
 
Rutgers-Camden also recognized the school\’s championship golf team, which won its fifth North Eastern Athletic Conference title in seven years and will compete in the NCAA Division III Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina May 12-15.

Three Queens, New York, Family Three Queens, New York, Family members embers and an Italian Citizen Charged with Conspiring to Import and Importing More Than 50 Kilograms of Cocaine into the U.S. from Costa Rica in Shipments of Produce

Queens Defendants Also Charged with Possessing Illegal Firearms

NEW YORK, NY MAY 8, 2015–A six-count superseding indictment was unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court charging husband and wife defendants Gregorio and Eleonora Gigliotti, (photo left, source Daily Mail.com) their son Angelo Gigliotti, and a relative who is an Italian citizen, Franco Fazio, with conspiracy to import cocaine, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, importation of cocaine, and attempted possession of cocaine. In addition, the Gigliotti defendants were charged with unlawful use and possession of firearms. The charges arise from the defendants’ participation in an international narcotics-trafficking operation between July 1, 2014 and March 11, 2015.