Through our investigation, we determined that a longterm alliance between members of the pagan outlaw motorcycle gang and James Kauffman was created for the mutual financial gape through the use of kauffmans medical practice for illegal drug distribution. This relationship ultimately old and may tenth, 20 west he 12 with the murder for hire of april kauffman. Police executed a search warrant kauffmans practice last summer. He showed a handgun and sparked a standoff. He was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon. He is now been charged with murder. Conspiracy and racketeering and seven others have also been charged. In the Operation Center im iain page, lucy, back to you. Thank you iain. Developing story out of bucks counsel teen. An 88yearold woman found dead by her neighbors. She was outside in the snow. Lets get right to fox 29s jeff cole live in northampton township. Jeff . Reporter lucy, its the sad out growth of a bitter cold thats gripped our region of late. An elderly
Free cup of coffee. Already handing out coffee there is meteorologist bill henley. Bill . Ive got help inside. And people are not spending a lot of time getting from their cars, rushing inside, because its so cold out. Look who i stopped on his way in to get his morning coffee. Sean mcdade. Good morning, how are you doing . Nice to see you. Good to see you, too. You drive school buses up and down Dublin School district. What grades . High school, middle school, and elementary. All of them . Elementary is my best. Those are the best behaved . Maple glen. Yep. Really . Yep. What grade is that . Kindergarten through fifth. If somebody gives you problems . Those kids dont give you problems. Theyre well behaved. Their parents are good people. When i was growing up, there was one heater in the back, and everybody else was freezing to death. Are the buses better now . No, nothings changed with that. No. Its been tough for kids waiting at the bus stop. I do the bus stop forecast every morning
Her. Plus, you paid for it. But youre never going to see that new computer you ordered because you didnt do anything. It was an imposter. Yup. Someone out there pretending to be you. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Brand new developments in the case contracted wide open. The husband of a popular radio host now faces charges for her murder. This day was more than five years in the mak making. In 2012 April Kauffman died at the hands of a gunman in her linwood home. Thank you for joining us at 10 00i im lucy noland. Prosecutors now say dr. James kauffman a inch rad the murder of his wife and used a biker gang to carry it out. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is in atlantic county, dave . Reporter lucy, investigators broke this case wide open today on what sounded like made for tv movie involving drugs, greed, the pagans motorcycle gang and a murder for higher plot by a doctor who wawa phrased losing everything in divorce. As you can imagine today is a very very difficult day for me and for my family.
Outlaw motorcycle gang an murder for higher plot by a doctor who was frayed of lose everything in pending divorce. Its just really overwhelmi overwhelming. Reporter after more than five agonizing years kimberly pack searched for justice in the murder of her mother radio host April Kauffman finally ended tuesday. I think for the first today i can actually breathe. For the past five and a half years i have felt like ive been holding my breath. Reporter now aprils 69yearold husband dr. James kauffman stands with her brutal murder along with Pagans Motorcycle Club member ferdinand miserable or jello former pagan paul pagano and glenn slash shear seller charged with racketeering as part of a drug ring tied to kauffman and the weigh pagan. For every person to be involved in the drug elder he end prize was a pagan, former pagan or an associate of the pagan gang. Dr. Kauffman hired a hit man with ties to the pagans to kill his wife after she threatened to expose his illegal pill mill drug oper
Kauffman dead he and a motorcycle gang his partner in illicit drug scheme and its tuesday night and the big story is the breakthrough that much of the jersey shore has been waiting for the alleged answer to the question who murdered April Kauffman and why and action News Reporter Annie Mccormick has been tracking the scorery closely from the beginning and live from the atlantic Prosecutors Office in mays landing annie. Disturbing details laid out in the accusations made by the atlantic counter Prosecutors Office today among the motives they say was to keep April Kauffman quiet after she threaten to expose the alleged ellis elicit drug operation. Takes your words away. Reporter reacting to charges against her estranged stepfather James Kauffman in may 2012 shootingf april popular host and advocate the 68yearold doctor had a murder for hire plat with two pagan members and in 2011 James Kauffman and augello began looking for a hit man and paid 20,000 in scrips for opioids and he died of a