Among other offenses, Jeffrey Loretta is accused of making ATM withdrawals of several thousand dollars at a time, and writing checks out to himself payable in cash.
The man accused of brutally killing Christina Lee in her New York apartment this month was a Newark native, though recently homeless, according to court records.
Using a federal grant, the state will pick six places for a ‘Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion’ program for people with addiction or mental health issues.
According to authorities, the defendant was traveling eastbound on Bay Avenue just before 10:30 p.m. when she failed to maintain her lane of travel and entered the shoulder, striking 62-year-old James Cruz.
The pleas come more than two and a half years after a 23-year-old resident was fatally shot on a city basketball court, and two years after indictments were handed up in the case.
In addition to gunshot detection technology and automatic license plate readers, the state allocates $8.2M for community-based violence intervention programs.
A former administrator of a nonprofit will spend a few years behind bars for stealing more than $400,000 from the organization that's devoted to assisting low- and middle-income earners.