2 charged with animal cruelty, dogs seized from N.J. home
Updated Apr 30, 2:07 PM;
Posted Apr 30, 10:18 AM
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Two South Jersey residents were charged with animal cruelty this week after a SWAT team served a warrant at their home.
Gloucester County SWAT served a “knock and announce” search warrant at a home in the 1600 block of Atkins Avenue in West Deptford Township around 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to township police.
The warrant stemmed from an animal cruelty investigation conducted by West Deptford police, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and county animal control.
Felipe Echevarria, 33, and Brittany M. Morgan, 34, both of West Deptford, were charged with animal cruelty violations and released on summonses pending future court appearances, police said.
Passenger killed in 3-vehicle crash involving dump truck, tractor trailer
Updated 10:22 AM;
The truck was traveling southbound in the right lane in West Deptford Township shortly before 3 p.m. when it was struck from behind by a tractor trailer, according to a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
The impact sent the dump truck into the left lane, where it hit a car.
The car and dump truck then struck a guardrail and the truck overturned.
The dump truck passenger, Gary Shute, 75, of Pedricktown, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The truck driver, a 76-year-old Woolwich Township man, was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden with serious injuries.
Unable to overcome their injuries
Tisha Holloway told the station that her stepmother lives at the residence, where the woman was sleeping along with her son, grandchild and the two boys when the fire broke out.
‘My little brother didn’t know that the other two kids were there,’ Holloway told WPVI.
‘He just knew that his mom and his nephew were in there.’
Holloway said her brother helped his mother and a baby escape the home, but the blaze quickly engulfed the residence and made it too dangerous to save the two boys.
The young boys were eventually rescued after firefighters used ladders to reach the second floor.
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.
Driver killed when car veers off interstate, flips
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
A South Jersey man was killed in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 295 Sunday morning.
Joseph Patterson Jr., 25, of Williamstown was driving a 2015 Honda southbound in West Deptford Township around 10:45 a.m. when the vehicle veered off the roadway near milepost 19.8, according to a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
The Honda struck the center median guardrail and overturned.
Patterson died as a result of his injuries, police said.
The accident remains under investigation.
Conditions were dry and clear at the time of the crash, police noted.
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