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By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced the guilty plea of a former New Jersey Postal Service employee charged with embezzling more than $50,000 of postal funds. Thea Sisler, of Flanders, admitted before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Camden federal court to intentionally misappropriating monies belonging to her employer at the Stockholm post office. In addition to those funds, Sisler admitted to embezzling approximately $69,850 more money beginning in June 2009 and lasting through September 2010. The 31-year-olds guilty plea carries a statutory maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss of the offense. Sisler's sentencing is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 20, 2012. Fishman lauded the investigative work of special agents of the U.S. Postal Service – Office of Inspector General (Jane Hughes) for Monday's guilty plea. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacques S. Pierre of the U.S. Attorney’s Off...

Hilarious Re-post. I wonder how true it is? DIVORCE LETTERS FROM HUSBAND AND WIFE (AT BOTTOM) Dear Wife, I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you forever. I’ve been a good man to you for 7 years & I have nothing to show for it. These last 2 weeks have been hell. ... Your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today and that was the last straw. Last week, you came home and  didn’t even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal and even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers.  You ate in 2 minutes, and went straight to sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don’t tell me you love me anymore; you don’t want sex or anything that connects us as husband and wife. Either you’re cheating on me or you don’t love me anymore; whatever the case, I’m gone. Your EX-Husband P.S. don’t try to find me. Your SISTER & I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life! ---- Dear Ex-Husband, Nothing has made my day more than receiv...

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM An unidentified man abandoned his car in the westbound lane near the New Jersey Tower on the George Washington Bridge at 8 a.m., Wednesday morning, the anniversary of Tyler Clementi's suicide, and plunged to his death. A Port Authority spokesperson confirmed that a Harbor Unit from the New York City Police Department recovered the body from the water near 155th Street in Manhattan after a 45-minute search. Witnesses say the man drove his vehicle midway across the span, then climbed over the railing and jumped. His car remained on the bridge, surrounded by police cars, as the investigation continued. The accident forced the closure of the westbound lane, NorthJersey.com reported. Tyler Clementi Several times a year, distraught individuals choose to end their lives aboard the 4,760-foot long bridge, which crosses the Hudson River connecting Fort Lee to the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. According to NYMag.com, the George Washington Bridg...

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM NFL officials have penalized Rahway native and San Diego Chargers defensive tackle Antonio Garay for an illegal hit against New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady last Sunday. The towering former New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association 1998 state and national wrestling champion was slapped with a $15,000 fine for hitting Brady below the knee with his arm just as Brady was throwing a pass during the third quarter of the Patriots' 35-21 victory, ESPN reported. The hit left the three-time Superbowl winning quarterback on the ground, his back arched and legs bent. The 34-year-old Brady escaped serious injury thanks to a knee brace he was wearing. "He got me in a good... .FULL ARTICLE HERE

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Suspect in Bronx subway slashings. Have you seen her? NYPD officers are on the hunt for an IRT slasher whose knifing spree sent two women to local hospitals. The knife wielding suspect is being described as a woman who approached a 19-year-old subway rider on September 6 around 4:00 p.m. as the victim rode the northbound 4 train at E. 170th Street in Mount Eden. The suspect sliced the woman's face then fled on foot. The victim's injury required stitches. Six days later, investigators say a woman fitting the same description as the September 6 slasher lashed out at an 18-year-old woman riding a southbound 4 train at the Mount Eden station before fleeing. A composite sketch of the attacker describes her as being 17 to 25 years old, standing 5-foot-4 and weighing 160 pounds. During the second slashing, the suspect donned a black hooded sweatshirt and plastic gloves. Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hot line...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Freedom was short lived for a Rikers Island inmate who gave a corrections officer aboard the 413.17-acre prison facility the slip. Daniel Sanchez was in custody, without bail, on a first-degree murder charge when he bolted while CO's were trying to fingerprint him. Earlier in the day, the slippery inmate was charged with tampering with a window in his cell at the George Motchan Detention Center aboard the Island. Three captains and six corrections officers were treated for minor injuries sustained while attempting to subdue the 24-year-old wanna-be Houdini. I'm sure Sanchez can add attempted escape and assault on government officials to his murder and tampering charges. Back in July, a fire forced the evacuation of 200 inmates on the Island after smoke was detected coming from a heating unit in the George Motchan Detention Center. The two-alarm blaze destroyed several inmate dormitories, said Correction Department spokesperson Sharman Stein...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times A Bronx teen watched in horror as her boyfriend of four years lay dying in her arms after he was shot by a thug who approached the victim asking him if he was "gunning." Soon after uttering those fateful words, a shot is fired hitting José Webster in the chest. Aniik Wallace, 16, said she and Webster were a couple. Her boyfriend had been in some trouble but was straightening out his life. The teen said the two did everything together and described Webster as an extroverted person. Wallace said her last words to Webster were, "Don’t leave me. I love you." The couple were taking a stroll along Teller Avenue in the Bronx at the time of the 8:50 p.m. shooting. It is not clear if Webster knew his assailant. Police have not identified any suspects at this time. If you have information on this shooting, you are asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS or, for Spanish speakers, 1-888-57-PISTA, to provide information anonymously.

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times The last words of a condemned man, setnenced to die for the shooting death of an off-duty Georgia policeman in 1989, asked that God have mercy on the souls of those about to take his life. Troy Davis sat on death row in Georgia for the past 20 years as lawyers, Jesse Jackson, former President Jimmy Carter and even Pope Benedict XVI all fought to save his life. Witnesses recanted earlier statements, several things cast reasonable doubt about Davis' guilt, but in the end, that did nothing to spare the 42-year-old's life. After several stays of execution, the latest coming just four hours before Davis was put to death by lethal injection at 10:53pm EDT. The Butts County, Georgia native was declared dead at 11:08 p.m., 15 mintues after he was injected with a lethal cocktail of narcotics in the execution chamber in Jackson. Davis remained defiant up until the end. He refused a last meal, an anti-anxiety drug and would not partake in a final pray...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Finally, we get to recognize the individuals who transport us through the five boroughs by iron horse: Train Conductors. The New York Daily News interviewed veteran MTA train operator Alex Bowen Sr whose been with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for 18 years. The 42-year-old father of three began his career with MTA at the tender age of 22. He's driven everything from a trash train to a vac trains, deicers and even the A train. For a brief moment, the Dutchess County native thought he wanted to ditch his subway gig. Everything from the dust to the overabundance of rats that call the subway tunnels home gave Bowen the willies. The steel dust and smell of the rats makes it tough to breathe. The fearless rats have been known to crawl up your arm and pants legs. "The rat feces and urine were so potent that I felt like I needed a gas mask. That was the one time when I thought that maybe this job wasn't for me," said Bowen. De...

By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom A Belleville man who told Newark police he was the victim of a carjacking on the ramp to Interstate 280 near First Street is facing criminal charges this week after police learned he lied. Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio said Emanuel Alvarado was charged with filing a false police report after officers learned his 2006 BMW 325i had not been stolen, but towed by New Jersey State Police following a minor one-car accident in the westbound lane of I-280. “When we receive calls for service, we take a great deal of care to provide our constituents with the very best police services available," said DeMaio. "We take such actions extremely serious and subsequently. This is something that the department will not tolerate and will pursue any violators zealously." When interviewed by Homicide Task Force investigators about the September 17 carjacking, the 26-year-old man recanted his statement.

The Federal Reserve, seeing "significant downside risks" to the economy, said it will shift $400 billion in its holdings of short-term bonds into longer term holdings. The move is meant to help reduce longer-term interest rates, such as for home mortgages, and is intended to bolster a struggling economy. Read More at Washington Post

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times In whispered responses, former WABC Channel 7 weather forecaster, Heidi Jones pleaded guilty in a Lower Manhattan courtroom to two misdemeanor counts of filing a false police report last year. The 38-year-old meteorologist agreed to the plea deal, which called for her to perform 350 hours of community service and three years probation, for telling police a Hispanic man tried to rape her as she jogged in Central Park on September 24, 2010. The weather girl, who filled in periodically on "Good Morning America" cracked and copped to lying about the incident after investigators confronted her with discrepancies in her story. A district court judge will sentence Jones on Oct. 26.  Her attorney, Paul Callan spoke on Jones' behalf during the Wednesday hearing saying she accepted personal responsibility for her actions and apologized for the inconvenience that was caused to the "New York City Police Department or to any law enforcement of...

By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom A former Essex County Deputy Sheriff pleaded guilty Wednesday in Camden federal court to laundering money through a non-profit community program he believed was proceeds from a drug trafficking operation. According to a press release, while serving as a Sheriff's deputy Eric Hawkins, of Union, New Jersey met with an undercover police officer posing as a broker who laundered money for a drug dealer. The two men entered into an agreement where Hawkins would launder the money from drug trafficking activity, listing the cash as a “donation” to the non-profit organization he owned, Urban Community Unification Inc. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said Hawkins accepted a total of $155,000 and laundered the money through his non-profit's bank account. He returned a portion of the cash to the undercover cop, minus a 5 percent fee. Hawkins guilty plea carries a 20 year prison sentence and $250,000 fine. His sentencing is tentatively scheduled for Decembe...

By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom A Camden man arrested in 2009 for carrying a loaded weapon was found guilty Wednesday of illegal possession of a loaded handgun by a federal jury following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle. Shawn Coleman was found guilty on the sole count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. Lindenwood police happened upon the 36-year-old man after receiving a citizen complaint at the Pine Ridge Apartments on November 5, 2009. When the officers arrived, they found Coleman asleep in the front seat of an SUV with its engine running and headlights on. Sig Sauer Model P229 .40 caliber After entering the car to check on the defendant, responding officers observed a Sig Sauer Model P229 .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun, similar to the one pictured to the left sitting in the open center console of the vehicle. The gun's serial number had been obliterated and it was loaded. When Coleman is se...

Carol Grabbe By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times The Rockland County District Attorney's Office announced the indictment of a Chestnut Ridge, New York woman on grand larceny charges involving her employer, the Bill Kolb Jr., Subaru car dealership in Orangeburg. According to a press release, 48-year-old Carol Grabbe of Sergio Court was indicted on two counts of second-degree grand larceny, one count each of third-degree grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, fourth-degree tax fraud and first-degree offering false instrument, said Xiomara Lopez, Confidential Assistant to the District Attorney. Prosecutors say as a controller at the Subaru dealership, Grabbe possessed control over the all of the dealership’s finances and financial records. Her theft was uncovered by a forensic accountant following an audit after the dealership was notified by Subaru of America that it was delinquent more than two million dollars in payments. According to the indictment, between January 2005 and February ...

By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom Five former NYPD officers arrested in the robbery of a New Jersey perfume warehouse have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms announced U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. Brian Checo, Orlando Garcia, Kelvin Jones, Richard LeBlanca and 33-year-old Luis Morales, all of New York, were arrested in March 2010 and charged with stealing approximately $500,000 of perfume while holding 11 employees hostage at a Carlstadt warehouse used by In-Style USA Inc. According to a press release, the officers began conspiring to rob the warehouse in December 2009. They carried out their plan on February 9, 2010 with Garcia using his credit card to rent one of the trucks used in the heist. Garcia admitted that on the day of robbery, he and the other officers burst into the warehouse brandishing guns, NYPD-issued badges and announcing themselves as police officers. Following the arrest of several conspirators at the crime scene, Garcia met Morales, Jones, Checo a...

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM South Bound Brook police arrested a 29-year-old woman who allegedly spiked her boyfriend's dinner with two lines of cocaine. A Somerset County Jail representative confirmed Wednesday that Monica Cookman was charged with one count of Possession of a Controlled Substance. The boyfriend told police after he ingested the food, his heart began racing and his throat became numb. According to WebForHealth.info, doctors say 1.2 grams of cocaine, when used orally, and 750-800 milligrams, when used intravenously or by inhaling, can be fatal. The average lethal dose of intravenous use of cocaine is about 500 milligrams. FULL ARTICLE

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM One of the men who rescued a Utah State University student Monday from beneath a vehicle fully engulfed in flames said he thought the man was a fatality, not an injured victim. Mike Johnson told the "Today" show that he, Kade Lundgren and Derrick Harper were working at a construction site just 50 yards from the scene of the accident. Johnson said no one knew Wright's condition until a woman peered under the burning car and yelled out, "He's alive." FULL ARTICLE HERE

By Alicia Cruz The New Jersey Newsroom Larry B. Mote New Jersey police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force are searching for a Newark man they believe is responsible for the murder of 26-year-old man shot dead in Newark on September 10. Larry B. Mote, 43, is suspected of shooting Michael Gayton, of Orange, multiple times after he intervened in a dispute between Mote and a woman with whom Mote had a relationship. The shooting took place in the 600 block of South 18th Street around 10 p.m., said Acting First Assistant Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino. Paramedics transported Gayton to University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:30 pm. Arrest warrants have been issued charging Mote with murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. "With the partnership forged between law enforcement and Newark residents we will continue our community-oriented approach to crime reduction as we search for those responsible fo...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times "Latino News" Retired Major League Baseball outfielder, Manny Ramirez is out of jail following his September 12 arrest on domestic violence charges. Ramirez spent an evening in a Florida jail after his wife, Juliana made a 911 call to Broward County police saying her husband had physically assaulted her during an argument in their bedroom. On the 911 recording Mrs. Ramirez can be heard saying that her husband struck her about the face and head and that she had a bump on her head from the assault. A police report corroborates the wife's version of events saying her face was "badly swollen, and she had a contusion on the back of her head." When reporters questioned Ramirez about the alleged battery, the 39-year-old father of three became so enraged he threw a reporter's microphone out of a car window. Media reports indicate that Ramirez' version of the incident also seems to support his wife's statement to police, ...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times New York City police have arrested one man and are currently seeking two others in connection with the murder of a rising high school basketball star shot dead in a Harlem housing project last weekend. Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy was shot in the Grant Houses last Sunday around 4:15 a.m. after the men allegedly confronted her over an argument she had nothing to do with. The suspects reportedly cornered the 18-year-old point guard, a senior at Murry Bergtraum High School, in the hallway of her building and shot her three times as she pleaded for her life. She died at the scene. Terique Collins was arrested Monday night at 1420 Amsterdam Avenue and is charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The 24-year-old man, who remains in custody in lieu of $250,000 bond, has a lengthy rap sheet that includes arrests for weapon and drug possession. Police records show he was recently nabbed on a possession of marijuana charge in May 2011. Tyshawn Brockington a...

Plaxico Burress still acts like somebody else shot him. So it is a good thing you don't have to do any time for missing the point, the way you do real time for shooting yourself in the leg with a Glock .40 you are not licensed to carry in the city of New York, or anywhere else on the night of Nov. 28, 2008. He still needs to stop acting as if he's just one more victim of guns in America. Burress has a right to be angry about what happened to him, about having to go to jail for an accident that follows a dumb mistake: Taking the Glock with him for this night of fun: Dinner at an Applebee's in Jersey, then to a strip club called HeadQuarters, finally to the Latin Quarter on Lexington Ave. where the gun went off. Plax, on the street of dreams! The gun, as everybody knows by now.... MORE

NY DAILY NEWS -- Cops busted an Arizona church after they said the only healing it offered was sexual. On Friday, police said they arrested 20 people from the Phoenix Goddess Temple church and charged them with prostitution, CNN.com reported. They are still looking for 17 more people after a six-month investigation into the supposed holy house -- which advertised in the adult entertainment section of a classifieds ads website.... FULL ARTICLE 

By Alicia Cruz New Jersey Newsroom Each of us remembers the morning of September 11, 2001. Where we were. Who we called. What we did. How we felt. The horrific and cowardly events committed by terrorists that day have left an indelible imprint in our minds and on our hearts. On this, the 10th anniversary of the attacks, we have shown the world that we have not forgotten those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and never will. May God bless the victims, their families, our first responders and all those who volunteered at Ground Zero. RELATED ARTICLES OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD, KILLED BY AMERICAN FORCES IN PAKISTAN Photos of dead Osama bin Laden create tension Execution of Saddam Hussein 2003 invasion of Iraq

Authorities believe they may have tracked down one of the world's most wanted tax cheats, ComputerLand founder William H. Millard, after more than 20 years on the run. The eccentric millionaire was tracked down in the Grand Cayman Island, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. He was reportedly spotted living in a yellow mansion with his wife.... MORE

Patron's of " Showgirls ," a Memphis strip club, will have to find another spot to frequent after Memphis Police and the Shelby County District Attorney General’s office successfully closed the establishment Friday on a nuisance petition. According to court documents, criminal activity at the 3880 Lamar Avenue business including drug sales and the hiring of unlicensed security personnel made the club a public nuisance, said District Attorney General Amy Weirich, who added that the club's owner’s "open defiance of the law" left them no choice but to seek permanent closure. Property records list the owners as Culbreath Land Company, Inc. The night of the closure, four of the club's strippers were arrested on prostitution and drug charges. Another strip club, Babes of Babylon, located at 1575 Brooks was also closed last week for the same reasons. Officers with the Memphis Police Organized Crime Unit reportedly observed dancers engaged in sex acts in the ...

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times A Memphis man is locked up in the Shelby County Jail after he shot his estranged wife three times and pistol whipped her with a BB gun Saturday. Hal Lee Cromer, 32, kicked in the door of his wife's Powell Avenue home near Highland and Summer Avenues around noon Saturday and shot her three times with a .22-caliber rifle. The wife told police Cromer came to the house prior to the shooting and threatened to kill her if she did not let him inside, the Commercial Appeal reported. A police affidavit states Cromer, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to a possession and attempted manufacture of methamphetamine charge, allegedly pointed a gun at his wife on August 24 after she notified him that she filed for divorce. Memphis police arrested Cromer but he was released from jail after posting a $30,000 bond. That case is still pending. The couple's children were home at the time of the shooting but were not injured. Cromer is now charged with attempted second ...

Memphis residents don't have to be rich in order to have their say in how thousands of dollars will be meted out to area non profit organizations thanks to the Memphis charitable fund, which received donations from "Give 365" members... Read Full Story Here

Doesn't look like Tropical Storm Maria will threaten U.S. land. Another close call averted for this Hurricane Season.

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By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times A weekend shooting in a Morningside Heights neighborhood claimed the life of a rising High School athlete when a verbal argument turned deadly just after 4 a.m. Sunday. Sources say the shooters may be from a neighboring housing project who came to the Grant projects looking for a man they argued with earlier. Tayshana Murphy, 18, killed in Grant Projects Tayshana Murphy , 18, was partying with friends in the hallway of 3170 Broadway when a group of unidentified individuals showed up. Murphy and several others ran into an adjoining stairwell to flee the gunmen but they followed Murphy and shot her. Residents of the apartment building said they heard the shots and were horrified to learn that the victim was Murphy. Details remain sketchy and police are still not sure what actually led to the shooting, but witnesses say Murphy, a senior at Murry Bergtraum High School , was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and may have been mistaken for a man the shooters we...

Memorial moves 9/11 mourners Ground Zero is gone — replaced this morning with the grand opening of a beautiful memorial that left the family members of the dead nearly speechless with emotion. The National September 11 Memorial officially opened its doors a decade after the... Obamas visit Flight 93 site SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, placed a wreath at the Flight 93 National Memorial today, arriving at the site to pay respects to the 40 passengers and crew who died a decade ago Sunday. Obama and his wife.... Mourners hold ceremony at firehouse hit hardest on 9/11 The FDNY firehouse that has the unenviable distinction of having lost the most members on 9/11 held a somber ceremony this morning. About 300 mourners showed up at Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9 to honor the 15 lost men, whose names were inscribed... The eleventh day In the dawn of September 11, 2001, in Massachusetts, 92 people were getting up, breakfast...

Fighter jets intercepted a New York-bound airliner this afternoon, high above Pennsylvania, after a passenger freaked out over another flyer’s frequent bathroom trips, sources said. The eerie 9/11...   Read Full Story

Ed Schultz let forth with a nearly 14-minute, highly emotional rant directed at Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on his Thursday show. The monologue was the latest in the feud between Schultz and Rubio. It began when Rubio made a speech about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, saying they had "weakened our people" by making the government, rather than family or society, the dominant provider for... MORE

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Three Rockland County men who scammed a hard-working immigrant out of $3,000,000 he won playing the lottery have been arrested and charged with one count of first-degree grand larceny, a class "B" felony in the State of New York. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe issued a press release announcing the arrests of Atif Ali, of North Main Street in Spring Valley, Riaz Khan, and Mubeen Ashraf both of Barr Lane, in Monroe. Zugibe said in February 2011, the victim bought a number of New York Lottery scratch-off tickets at a Spring Valley convenience store, where Ali was employed as a store clerk. One of the tickets was a huge winner, paying a top prize of $3,000,000. According to prosecutors, when Ali learned the man won, he allegedly conspired with Ashraf and Khan, the former owner of the convenience store, to prevent the man from collecting his prize money by telling him that if he claimed the ticket, it would lead to immediate...