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Cops investigating after shots fired into South Jersey home
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Authorities are investigating after shots were fired into an occupied West Deptford Township home early Monday.
Township police officers responded to the 200 block of DuBois Avenue around 12:20 a.m. for a report of shots fired.
No one in the home was injured, but property damage was discovered.
Township police and Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office investigators located and seized unspecified evidence at the scene, according to an announcement about the incident.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Detective Matthew Carroll at 856-853-4599, ext. 168 or email mcarroll@westdeptfordpd.com.
N.J. man offered to buy illicit images from kids online, cops say
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Authorities have charged a New Jersey man with child porn offenses following a seven-month investigation that involved police in Massachusetts.
Nicholas D. Coffin, 24, of West Deptford Township, allegedly contacted a 12-year-old girl via social media and offered to pay her for illicit photos and videos, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.
A search warrant was served at Coffin’s home on Jan. 14 and he admitted owning a “suspect social media account” and “soliciting and receiving illicit pictures from other children.”
He was charged with first-degree manufacturing child sexual abuse material and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child. He was placed in Salem County Correctional Facility pending a detention hearing.
Family of man who took 2 women hostage before being shot dead by police files lawsuit
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 21, 2021
William Owens was shot and killed by police after holding two women hostage in a UPS warehouse in Gloucester County. (Facebook)
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The family of a man shot dead by police after authorities say he held two women hostage, beat them and tried to shoot one as she ran away has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive force by officers.
His family claims in the suit that he was trying to surrender to police when he was killed.
Owens, who previously worked at the site, confronted a woman with whom he had a prior relationship, followed her inside the building, grabbed her and fired a handgun into the air. He announced that he was taking the woman hostage, said he was going to kill her and pistol-whipped a security guard, according to the state Attorney General’s office, which reviewed the circumstances surrounding the shooting and cleared the office
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