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OFFICER DOWN: Philadelphia Police Corporal James O\’Connor, SHOT AND KILLED

Corporal James O\’Connor

Philadelphia Police Department, Pennsylvania

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PHILADELPHIA PA (March 13, 2020)–Corporal James O\’Connor, age 46,  was shot and killed during a SWAT team operation to arrest a homicide suspect at 5:50 am.

The SWAT team was securing the home on Bridge Street, near Duffield Street, when the subject opened fire on them through a closed door on the second floor. Corporal O\’Connor was struck in the shoulder in an area not protected by his vest.

Corporal O\’Connor was transported to Temple University Hospital where he succumbed to his wound 20 minutes later.

Corporal O\’Connor had served with the Philadelphia Police Department for 23 years and had been a member of the SWAT team for 15 years. He is survived by his wife and two children. One of his sons also served with the Philadelphia Police Department.

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ARCHBISHOP NELSON J. PEREZ REGARDING THE DEATH OF SWAT CORPORAL JIM O’CONNOR

I was deeply saddened this morning to learn that SWAT Corporal James O’Connor of the Philadelphia Police Department was shot and killed in the line of duty.  In the name of the people of the Archdiocese, I extend my condolences to Corporal O’Connor’s family and friends as they mourn this tragic loss. My heartfelt sympathy also goes out to Commissioner Outlaw and the faithful men and women of the Philadelphia Police Department as they cope with the death of a brother in blue. Each day, the members of our law enforcement community put their lives on the line to protect and serve all of us. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

This moment is one of deep mourning for the entire City of Philadelphia and the broader metropolitan region. I have asked the priests, deacons, religious, and lay faithful of the Archdiocese to join me praying for the soul of Corporal O’Connor, for the consolation and peace of his family, and for all those are suffering as a result of his death. May the Lord pour His mercy upon them and hold them in His loving embrace.

+Nelson J. Pérez

Archbishop of Philadelphia

2 Indicted for Murder of Gloucester Twp. Man

Camden City, N.J. – A grand jury has chosen to indict the man and woman allegedly responsible for the homicide of a Gloucester Township man in October of 2019, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins.

Chamberlin Robinson, 41, of Vineland and Rosalee Gomez, 36, of Franklinville, were indicted on one count of first-degree Felony Murder, two counts of second-degree Burglary, and one count of second-degree Conspiracy to Commit Burglary. Robinson was also indicted on one count of first-degree Murder, second-degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose and one count of second-degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon.

Investigators said Robinson was reportedly part of a home invasion at a house on Yorkshire Road the night of Oct. 23, 2019. During the incident, Kevin Carter, 26, of Gloucester Township, arrived at the home and was fatally shot by Robinson after he didn’t comply with demands, according to detectives.

Through the investigation, detectives learned Gomez allegedly set up the home invasion to target an ex-boyfriend and drove Robinson and two others – who have not been identified – to the house to perform the crime. Carter was not the reported target.

Investigators said after the homicide, Gomez dropped Robinson and the other two men off in Millville before going to get money to pay them for carrying out the home invasion.

Robinson and Gomez remain in jail awaiting trial.

Anyone with information that could help identify the others involved in this crime is asked to call Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Jeremy Jankowski at 856-580-5950 or Gloucester Township Police Detective Scott Obermier at 856-228-4500.

Information may also be emailed to ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org.

All persons charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

https://camdencountypros.org/grand-jury-indicts-man-and-woman-in-gloucester-township-homicide/

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DLA Piper Opens an International Cannabis Law Practice

(Gloucestercitynews.net)(March 13, 2020)–No one can ignore the growth, size, and importance of the global cannabis industry anymore, especially when it comes to the medical cannabis market. Scientists keep on proving the health benefits of cannabis use, thus creating entirely new types of alternative treatments. That is the reason why a lot of companies and startups start to invest in the industry.

One of them is DLA Piper.

DLA Piper

, one of the biggest and well-known law firms in the world, has started an international cannabis practice with a team that will comprise more than 70 lawyers. They will be operating in more than 15 countries across Europe, Australasia, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The decision came after closing a large number of deals that brought the firm over $8 billion.

The team will be led from Canada by Toronto based partner Robert Fonn and from England by London based senior associate Dylan Kennett.

DLA Piper’s life sciences sector team is one of the biggest of any law firm. Considering that the

cannabis industry

has become one of the fastest-growing ones, it is no wonder that one of the largest law firms wants to take advantage of it.

DLA Piper will continue advising on a range of legal matters in the cannabis industry, including the changing regulatory environment around the world, thus helping its clients understand and keep up with all legislative regimes in the growing industry. It will also focus on the medicinal products market, publicly acknowledging the proven benefits of cannabis and supporting further research.

It is expected that more and more companies and brands from all industries will follow in its footsteps. This is inspired by the predictions for the cannabis industry for the next decade. It appears that Europe has the potential to become a market leader, and everyone is watching closely.

Let us take a look at some predictions.

According to some estimates, spending on legal cannabis globally will reach $66.3 billion by 2025. The recreational cannabis market will cover 67% of the spending, while medical cannabis and the

CBD market

will cover the remaining 33%.

Other predictions say that the European cannabis market will reach $136 billion by the end of 2028. The United Kingdom’s market should reach

£2.31 billion by 2024

, and if Germany joins the legalization trend, its market could reach

$9.39 billion by 2028

.

On the other hand, Asia’s medical cannabis market could be worth $5.8 billion, Oceania’s cannabis market could reach $2.7 billion, and Thailand’s cannabis market could hit $661 million by 2024.

There is no doubt that the cannabis industry will become one of the biggest industries in the world, especially if it continues to grow at this rate. One thing is certain as well: all of those deciding on this venture are going to need professional legal advice.

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How A South Jersey Drug Ring Was Taken Down

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GLOUCESTER CITY NJ (March 11, 2020)–At the bottom of yesterday\’s article

Major Drug Ring Operating in Gloucester City & Camden City is Busted

two links to the entire complaints that were filed against the suspects in the United States District Court,

Camden City was provided.

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One was labeled

DePoder complaint

the other was named the

Bell complaint

. The investigation into this drug gang began in January 2020 and concluded on March 9, 2020, cumulating with a raid on the DePoder home on Stinson Avenue, Gloucester City along with the arrest of the 17 other suspects.

The DePoder complaint details how the case was built using surveillance by FBI agents who were watching his South Stinson Avenue home, in Gloucester City. Besides surveillance video agents collected cell phone and text message conversations between Rocco DePoder aka \”Rock\” and his suppliers and customers.  Damaging step by step description of the exchanges are outlined from the moment one of DePoder\’s customers places an order on the cell phone or text message to the time the person picks the pills up from DePoder\’s house. FBI agents included descriptions of surveillance videos of DePoder driving the people with legal prescriptions to \”The Camden Pharmacy\” to have the script filled. The address of the pharmacy was not released.

Some of the controlled substances (CS) DePoder and his minions distributed included oxycodone, Adderall also known as \”ads\” or \”addies\”, Xanax, valium, clonazepam.

FROM PAGE 6 -8 of the 16-page indictment

From at least in or about January 2020 to in or about March 2020, Rocco DePoder (\”DEP0DER\”), who is not a doctor or pharmacist, ran a drug trafficking operation primarily out of his home in Gloucester City, New Jersey, aided and assisted by defendants Lolita Paynter (\”PAYNTER\”), Neal Thompson (\”THOMPSON\”), Marcus Rushworth (\”MRUSHWORTH\”), Robert Pratt (\”PRATI\”\’), Wayne Muse (\”MUSE\”), Kenneth Rushworth (\”KRUSHWORTH\”), Alexander Siaca (\”SIACA\”), Holly Clark (\”CLARK\”), and Michael DePoder (\”MDEPODER\”) (collectively, the \”Suppliers\”), who, as specific opportunities arose, agreed to or did assist in supplying DEPODER with quantities of controlled substances (\”CS\”), including oxycodone, Adderall, and Xanax, for DEPODER to distribute to others.

To further this drug trafficking operation, DEPODER and the Suppliers engaged in the· following conduct: ·

On or about January 10, 2020, DEPODER and PAYNTER traveled to a pharmacy to obtain a re-distribution quantity of Oxycodone for DEPODER. Specifically, on this date, PAYTNER telephoned DEPODER and made arrangements to meet DEPODE~ to sell DEPODER 60 OxyContin ER 60 mg tablets.

During ·the call, DEPODER asked, \”Wat, are you getting \’em?\” PAYNTER stated, \’\’Yeah,\” and DEPODER then agreed to pick PAYNTER up in his vehicle. According to law enforcement surveillance, later the same day, PAYNTER went to the pharmacy counter of a pharmacy in Camden, New Jersey (\”Camden Pharmacy-I\”) while DEPODER waited, with KRUSHWORTH, outside in his black GMC Yukon Denali SUV (the \”Denali\”). KRUSHWORTH left the Denali, walked down the street to a taxi cab, and left the area in the taxi.

A short time later, PAYNTER left the pharmacy and got back in DEPODER\’s Denali.

DEPODER then drove PAYNTER to a check-cashing business in Camden. PAYNTER went into the check-cashing business, remained for a short time, returned to the Denali, and then DEPODER drove her back: to Camden Pharmacy-I to obtain oxycodone to provide to DEPODER. According to pharmacy information, on this date, January 10, 2020, Camden Pharmacy-I. filled two prescriptions in the name of a senior citizen who appears to live with PAYNTER (\”Senior-I\”) for 60 OxyContin ER 60 mg ER tablets and 120 oxycodone-:-acetaminophen 10-325 mg pills.

FROM PAGE 9 and 10

On or about January 14, 2020, PRATT supplied a redistribution quantity of Oxycodone to DEPODER. Specifically, on this date, during a telephone conversation, PRATI asked if DEPODER was at DEPODER\’s home and told DEPODER, \”I got 45, you want \’em?\” DEPODER replied, \”Yeah, bring \’em over.\” During the call, DEPODER also told PRATT, \”Hey listen, I got them things too if you want \’em.\” PRATI responded, \”Yeah, I\’ll take them next week when I bring ya the other half.\”

According to pharmacy information, PRATT fills prescriptions, in his own name, on a monthly basis for 90 OxyContin 80 mg pills.

The FBI agent states, \”Based on my training and experience, the content of these calls, and my knowledge of the investigation to date, I believe that PRATT was referring to the two halves of his monthly prescription for 90 OxyContin 80 · mg pills. \”

According to law enforcement surveillance, a short time later, a car, registered to PRATT, arrived and parked in front of DEPODER\’s home, and a white male, believed to be PRATT, left the vehicle and entered DEPODER\’s home.

On or about January 16, 2020, MRUSHWORTH and DEPODER worked out the pricing of pills sold 1:Jy the operation, and DEPODER explained that \”I do this for a living.\”

Specifically, MRUSHWORTH sent a text message to DEPODER\’s telephone telling DEPODER \”we was wrong yesterday\’\’ regarding pill pricing, stating \”we did it as 9×3-27 no it\’s 3×30-90[.]\”

DEPODER and MRUSHWORTH then spoke on the telephone and discussed CS pricing. D~PODER told MRUSHWORTH, \”[i]t ain\’t no 30 times 3[,]\” instead, \”[t]hey\’re three for $10, Marc. There, they\’re footballs [which I believe, based on my training and experience and information from this investigation, is a reference to Xanax, because of the pills\’ oblong shape]. They\’re thr~e for 10. You got nine 10s in, in, in 90. Nine times three is 27. I do this for a living, bro. Thirty is 100. I, I\’ve been doing this, you know, for, for ages.\” DEPODER went on to explain that, \”[y]ou get 30 for 100-. Hey, listen, 15 is $50.\” · MRUSHWORTH told DEPODER, \”[y]eah, he didn\’t say nothing.\”·

As the conversation continued, DEPODER told MRUSHWORTH, \”and the other ones are three for 20.\” MRUSHWORTH responded, \”Daddy\’s selling something for $3 a piece, that\’s where I\’m getting the $3\” – referring to 8:Il another dealer as \”Daddy[.]\” DEPODER replied, \”Oh, oh alright. Yeah, he\’s sells \’emyeah he sells \’em \’cause you got that guy. He was selling them 2.50 apiece. · Two for five.\”

DEPODER asked MRUSHWORTH, \”So why are you selling them so cheap, Marc? He\’s paying three for 10 off of me. He\’s been doing that 9 forever, and that, that\’s what you\’ll pay anywhere you go. Downtown you\’ll pay $5 for one[.]\”· DEPODER added, that the· dealer that MRUSHWORTH referred to \”should be charging three for 10 because that\’s what he pays me …. · Remember, the- the other things are three for 20. Because there\’s six of \’em in them.\” MRUSHWORTH then told DEPODER that \”[h]e handed me $90[,]\” referring MRUSHWORTH\’s customer, so MRUSHWORTH. made a profit.

FROM PAGE 14 AND 15

· On or about February 29, 2020, PRATT solicits a sale by DEPODER of Oxy.codone. Specifically, on this date, PRATI sent a text message to DEPODER\’s telephone asking, \”Yo I\’ll gonna come mid-month if want them ?\” DEPODER replied, \”Ok I want me to hold 20\’s\” – \”20\’s\” is a term frequently used by DEPODER to refer to 2o·mg pill_s of oxycodone.

PRATI replied, \”Just 20.\” q. On or about March 2, 2020, DEPODER and PAYNTER travel to a pharmacy to obtain a re-distribution quantity of Oxycodone for DEPODER. Specifically, on this date, PAYNTER sent a text message to DEPODER stating, \”[g]ood morning Rocco do u have the $200 today might be able to get them today I text u when they open ok[.]\”

DEPODER replied, \”[w]hat about the $50 you owe me lo C this is one talking about every time I lend you money something happens to your checks and then you want me to buy the pills.\”

DEPODER and PAYNTER communicated several more times thereafter and made arrangements to meet. Later the same day, according to law enforcement surveillance, while driving the Denali, DEPODER picked PAYNTER up at her home in Camden and took her to Camden Pharmacy-I. PAYNTER entered Camden Pharmacy-I to obtain oxycodone to provide to DEPODER and then returned to DEPODER\’s waiting Denali.

According to pharmacy information, on March 2, 2020, Camden Pharmacy-I filled one prescription on behalf of Senior-I for 30 OxyContin ER 20 mg extended-release tablets. On or about March 5, 2020, THOMPSON arranged for DEPODER to sell Adderall to Individual-3. Specifically, on this date, during a telephone conversation, THOMPSON asked DEPODER, \”you got addas, Adderall\’s?\”

DEPODER responded, \”Yeah, 30\’s, that\’s all\” stating that · DEPODER only had 30 mg Adderall in stock. THOMPSON replied, \”Alright, and what do you want for them?\” DEPODER said, \”Fifteen[,]\” namely $15 per pill. THOMPSON advised, \”[a]lright, I\’m a tell her.\”

Later that evening, THOMPSON spoke to DEPODER again on the telephone, and the interception began with THOMPSON speaking to someone in the background, stating, \”[y]eah, this is different. ones, he only got 30\’s.\”

THOMPSON then spoke to DEPODER and said,_ \”[s]he wanna come out your way bro.\” THOMPSON then told DEPODER, \”[t]he lady with the Range Rover, you know the one buy the addies off you?\”

THOMPSON then corrected himself as to the make of the customer\’s car, stating that it was \”a Land Rover now.\”·

DEPODER gave THOMPSON the address of DEPODER\’s home and asked.\”how many she wants.\” THOMPSON told DEPODER \”7[.]\” Thus, THOMPSON arrang~d f~r DEPODER to sell an individual (\”Individual-3\”) 7 30 mg. Adderall pills.

Shortly thereafter, Individual-3 called DEPODER and told DEPODER, \”I\’m outside.\”

Law 14 enforcement surveillance observed a Land Rover park on the street outside DEPODER\’s home in Gloucester City.

DEPODER walked out of his home, · approached the Land Rover, appeared to conduct a hand-to-hand transaction with the driver of the Land Rover, and returned to his home. Later that evening, Individual-3 sent DEPODER a text message stating, \”This is [Individual-3) … please don\’t forget me. I buy 40-60ml adds a month or the 15 mg off ever see them I will buy them.\” Thus, Individual-~ told DEPODER that she wanted to buy additional Adderall pills from him in the future.

FROM PAGE 15 AND 16

On or about February 23, 2020, DEPODER agreed to sell Oxycodone to a customer.

Specifically, on this date, DEPODER spoke on the telephone with a buyer (\”Buyer-2\”) who asked if DEPODER had \”green monsters\” (80 mg oxycodone pills) and \”one below it\” (60 mg oxycodone pills).

DEPODER told ~uyer-2, \”yeah, yeah[,]\” namely, he had the pills in stock, and Buyer-2 replied that \”I\’ll be [at DEPODER\’s home in Gloucester City] in like 10 mins[.]\” DEPODER then asked Buyer-2, \”[w]hatcha need?\” Buyer -2 stated, \”U]ust one and one 60[,]\” referring to 1 80 mg oxycodone pill and one 60 mg oxycodone pill.

Later the same day, subsequent communications and surveillance indicate that DEPODER and Buyer-2 met at DEPODER\’s home in Gloucester City. · 15 iii. On or about March 3, 2020, DEPODER\’agreed to sell Oxycodone to a customer.

Specifically, on this date, during·a telephone call, Buyer-2 told DEPODER that \”I (Buyer-2) need two of them green pills. and one red one\'[.]\” DEPODER responded, \”[a]lright[.]\” Buyer-2 told DEPODER that Buyer-2 would \”be like fifteen, twenty minutes\” and DEPODER replied, \”I\’ll be here.

Later the same day, subsequent communications and surveillance indicate that DEPODER and Buyer-2 met at DEPODER\’s home in Gloucester City.

The FBI agent in charge of the investigation was Stuart Sobin, a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the Philadelphia Division, Cherry Hill Resident Agency, of the department. He has been an FBI Special Agent since 2012. \”In my capacity as a Special Agent, I have received extensive formal investigative training at the FBI\’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia and elsewhere. I have also received the basic drug and gang training, as well as advanced training that involved drugs and gangs,\” he stated in the complaint.

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Philadelphia Bar Association Statement on ICE Arrests within Courthouses

PHILADELPHIA, PA –

In response to recent arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within Courthouses, Chancellor Hon. A. Michael Snyder (ret.) of the

Philadelphia Bar Association

, the nation’s oldest metropolitan Bar Association, issued the

following statement:

“The Philadelphia Bar Association has long had a position of being committed to the protection of individual liberties and to safeguarding the rights of all individuals. These basic rights include the right of due process to all, whether they are citizens or not.

“The entrance of agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service into courthouses or other facilities where legal proceedings are held causes fear among litigants, witnesses, victims and family members. The arrest of immigrants by ICE Agents, without warrants, constitutes a violation of the rights of due process.

“Recently, nonuniformed agents of ICE were recorded performing such unlawful arrests in courthouses within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in blatant contravention of the internal policies of ICE. These arrests appear to have been aided or abetted by local courthouse personnel, who witnessed the arrest but who did nothing to protect the rights of those being detained, even when the involved individual was lawfully within the courthouse, accompanied by his attorney, to conclude a legal matter not related to his application for naturalization. When his attorney asked to see the arrest warrant, the ICE agent insisted first that the arrest warrant was in his vehicle; when asked to get the warrant, the agent then insisted that he had the right to execute a ‘warrantless administrative arrest.’

“Such actions are hauntingly reminiscent of those of a police state, calling to mind the actions of a secret or state police.  Actions such as these are a clear violation of basic human rights. This is not the America created by the Framers of the Constitution.

“We call upon law enforcement agencies, local governments, and court administration to prevent the access of ICE agents into courthouses, and to act to protect the rights of individuals lawfully within those facilities from harassment or arrest by ICE agents, whether uniformed or not.”

DeCavalcante Associate Admits Cocaine Distribution And Gun Possession

TRENTON, N.J. – An associate of the DeCavalcante crime family today admitted possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm during the course of a drug crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Mario Galli III, 28, of Toms River, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before Judge Anne E. Thompson in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and one count of possession of a FEG 9mm Model PGK-9HP gun, loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition, by a convicted felon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

Between Sept. 19 and Sept. 20, 2019, investigators from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office executed search warrants on Galli’s residence and the residence of a conspirator. They recovered between400 and 500 grams of cocaine. The search of Galli’s residence also recovered a FEG 9mm Model PGK-9HP gun loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition. At the time, Galli was on supervised release from a 2016 federal conviction for conspiracy to distribute in excess of 500 grams of cocaine. He served 30 months in federal prison on that charge.

The charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The count of being a felon being in possession of a firearm during a drug crime carries a penalty of five years in prison which must be served consecutively to the penalty for the drug crime, and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for July 7, 2020.

U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited the members of the FBI’s Organized Crime Task Force under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Gregory W. Ehrie in Newark; and investigators from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea.

The government is represented by Senior Litigation Counsel V. Grady O’Malley of the U.S. Attorney\’s Office’s Organized Crime/Gangs Unit in Newark.

Defense counsel: James Butler Esq.

Yushika Taplin of Camden City Charged with Death of Daycorey Singleton

Camden, N.J. – A Camden woman has been charged in connection to a March 9 homicide in Lindenwold, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Lindenwold Police Chief

Michael P. McCarthy Jr.

Yushika Taplin, 31, of Camden, has been charged with second-degree Manslaughter in the death of 46-year-old Daycorey Singleton.

Detectives said Taplin called the Camden Metro Police Department around 5:30 p.m. to report she had killed someone at an apartment in Lindenwold. When officers from the Lindenwold Police Department arrived at the apartment on the 2000 block of the White Horse Pike, they found Singleton dead from multiple stab wounds.

Through the investigation, investigators learned Taplin had gone to the apartment around 7 a.m. on March 9 to get some of her belongings. After Taplin couldn’t find her items inside, she told detectives she confronted Singleton and the argument turned physical, leading to the stabbing.

Taplin was transported to the Camden County Correctional Facility and is awaiting a detention hearing.

All persons charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

The NRA Stands with Roosevelt

With cases like those of

Shanneen Allen

,

Brian Aitken

,

Gordon Van Gilder

,

Hisashi Pompey

, and

many others

, New Jersey has a well-earned reputation for malevolent gun prosecutions. As bad as those cases were, the Garden State may have just bested their own record for malice with a new low in anti-gun oppression.

According to a report from

Ammoland.com

, armored car security guard Roosevelt Twyne was driving home from a shift in early February when he was pulled over in Roselle Park, N.J., allegedly for a window tint violation. At the time, Twyne was carrying a handgun loaded with

Hornady Critical Duty

ammunition. As he is a security guard, Twyne has a valid New Jersey permit to carry a handgun.

New Jersey is a may-issue carry permit state. Most applicants are required to justify their need for a permit to carry. N.J.S.A. 2C:58-4 requires,

Each application form shall be accompanied by a written certification of justifiable need to carry a handgun, which shall be under oath and, in the case of a private citizen, shall specify in detail the urgent necessity for self-protection, as evidenced by specific threats or previous attacks which demonstrate a special danger to the applicant\’s life that cannot be avoided by means other than by issuance of a permit to carry a handgun. Where possible, the applicant shall corroborate the existence of any specific threats or previous attacks by reference to reports of the incidents to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

Additional burdens in the application process include a fingerprinting requirement and a requirement to obtain three personal references. Even after complying with all of these measures, the permit is only valid for a two-year period.

According to Ammoland.com, despite being one of the few individuals with a New Jersey carry permit, Twyne was arrested and charged with

illegal transportation of a firearm

.

Further, Twyne was reportedly charged with violating New Jersey’s prohibition on hollow-point self-defense ammunition.

N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3

states,

Any person, other than a law enforcement officer or persons engaged in activities pursuant to subsection f. of N.J.S.2C:39-6, who knowingly has in his possession any hollow nose or dum-dum bullet…  is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

New Jersey is the only state that prohibits hollow-point self-defense ammunition.

Millions of American gun owners choose to use hollow-point self-defense ammunition to protect themselves and those around them. In

District of Columbia v. Heller

, U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms “in common use” for lawful purposes. As this ammunition is a favorite choice of Americans for the lawful purpose of self-defense, New Jersey’s law is unconstitutional.

However, at the time of his arrest, Twyne was carrying Hornady Critical Duty ammunition in his handgun. Hornady Critical Duty ammunition uses a projectile with what Hornady calls a “Flextip” polymer filling. The projectile does not have a “hollow nose.”

Understanding that Hornady Critical Defense did not meet the definition of “hollow nose” ammunition under N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3, the New Jersey State Police issued the following guidance on their

Firearm FAQS website

.

I’m not a police officer, are hollow points legal for me to possess?

Yes. They are legal for purchase and possess in your home or on land owned by you.  They are legal to possess and use at a gun range.  They are also legal to possess while traveling to and from such places. Ammunition lacking a hollow cavity at the tip, such as those with a polymer filling, are not considered to be hollow point ammunition. An example of this can be seen with the Hornady Critical Defense / Critical Duty, Cor-Bon PowRball / Glaser Safety Slug and Nosler Inc. Defense ammunition.

Ammoland.com reported that after the arrest Twyne was suspended from his job. New Jersey’s rabid anti-gun politicians don’t seem to care how many innocent, productive lives their incomprehensible web of gun control laws upend.

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https://www.nraila.org/

Gloucester Township Police Officer Found Guilty for Striking Juvenile

Camden City, N.J. – A suspended Gloucester Township police officer has been found guilty for striking a juvenile who was being detained, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill Mayer and Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins.

John Flinn, 29, of Williamstown, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree Official Misconduct on March 11 by a jury following a nearly three-week trial. The jury was deadlocked on a charge of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.

Flinn responded to a reported disturbance on March 8, 2018. As Flinn was handcuffing a 13-year-old girl, he struck her twice in the face. Body worn cameras from responding officers captured the incident.

Flinn was charged in April 2018 after the Gloucester Township Police Internal Affairs Unit reviewed the body worn camera footage and turned it over to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

Acting Assistant Prosecutor Angela Seixas prosecuted the case that began on Feb. 20 in front of the Honorable Judge Edward J. McBride.

During the trial, a responding officer testified he witnessed Flinn strike the victim with an open hand twice while she was complying with commands.

Flinn was released under conditions and is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date.

Address/Location

Gloucester Township Police Department

1261 Chews Landing Rd

Gloucester Township, NJ 08021

Contact

Emergency: 9-1-1

Non-emergencies: 856-228-4500