Aberdeen Township resident faces federal charges
Aberdeen Township resident faces federal charges
A resident of Aberdeen Township has been charged with witness tampering and retaliating against a witness or informant, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced on May 14.
Kaitlyn R. Powers, 32, is charged by complaint with two counts of retaliating against a witness or informant and one count of witness tampering, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, during an FBI investigation, a confidential source working at the direction and supervision of law enforcement conducted multiple controlled purchases of suspected narcotics, including crack cocaine, from Richard N. Edwards Jr. of Old Bridge.
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An Aberdeen woman faces charges after allegedly threatening to kill an informant who was working with federal investigators in a crack cocaine distribution case.
Kaitlyn R. Powers, 32, has been charged with two counts of retaliating against a witness or informant and one count of witness tampering.
The confidential source working with the FBI bought crack cocaine from Richard N. Edwards Jr. of Old Bridge in East Brunswick on Feb. 24, according to an FBI complaint in the case. The informant was wearing an audio and video recording device.
Powers is Edwards girlfriend, according to the complaint.
Edwards made various other purchases of drugs and sold them to the confidential source from January to March, according to the complaint.
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A Monmouth County woman threatened to kill an informant in a federal drug case, authorities charged.
Kaitlyn R. Powers, 32, of Aberdeen took two runs at the informant, whose drug buys particularly of crack led directly to the arrests of two men, Richard N. Edwards Jr. of Old Bridge and Jamil J. Yasin of East Orange, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
The first time was on April 7, when Powers “confronted the confidential source in a parking lot of a convenience store in Cliffwood Beach and threatened, among other things, to have the confidential source killed in retaliation for Edwards’s and Yasin’s arrests,” Honig said.