Atlantic County

An Atlantic City attorney is jailed on $250,000 bail, charged with the repeated sexual abuse of a teenaged girl over a four-year span.

David Alcantara, 44, was arrested following his Tuesday indictment by a grand jury in Mays Landing

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The Vineland man convicted last March for the brutal sexual attack and robbery of an 89-year-old Somers Point woman in August 2010 is scheduled to hear his sentence tomorrow in Atlantic County Superior Court

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The Mays Landing 25-year-old accused of shooting an Atlantic City man in cold blood as he sat on a porch in July formally hears charges against him today.

Joshua M. Cross faces counts of murder and conspiracy in the death of Sedrick Lindo, 25

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The Atlantic County Medical Examiner says the death of a man, who's body was discovered in the basin of a quarry in Egg Harbor Township Friday this morning, was a drowning.

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Retirements, resignations and promotions signal a changing of the guard in Monmouth, Ocean and Atlantic County law enforcement.

Ocean County First Assistant Prosecutor Ron Deligny retired Friday, ending 25 years of service

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A Mays Landing 26-year-old who works for the company that stocks the Atlantic County Justice Facility is accused of  smuggling electronics and other contraband into the county jail.

Authorities say Matthue Koch was charged with two degrees of obstruction of governmental operations: a second-degree count connected to a cell phone, and a fourth-degree count related to cigarettes

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An Atlantic City woman is strangled to death and the murderer is on the loose.

The body of Siddiqah Bryant, 23, was found by Atlantic City police Thursday in her car on the 1800 block of Arctic Avenue, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel

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The 21-year-old whose naked remains were found in an Egg Harbor Township wooded section Saturday was a resident of the community.

Atlantic County authorities say Klevins Exantus died by his own hand shortly after being accosted by police near Black Horse Pike around 2:00 Saturday afternoon

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Two suspects are under arrest in connection with a Thursday gunshot homicide on an Atlantic City Street.

Michael Rivera, 22, of Pleasantville, and Casey Robinson, 21, of Atlantic City, face murder and weapons counts in the death of Joshua Hopewell, 26, also of Atlantic City

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