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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.
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A 22-year-old ex-con from Trenton who’s already served 2½ years in state prison could face significantly more federal time if convicted of a string of gunpoint carjackings and robberies.
Joshua Perez, 22, was taken into custody after pointing a gun at officers during a raid of his home, authorities said Thursday.
Investigators had identified Perez as one of three armed robbers responsible for a Oct. 10 carjacking, another on Dec. 5 and the robbery later than night of a local gas station, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachel A. Honig said.
Surveillance cameras captured video of Perez and two other robbers emerging from a sedan, pointing handguns at occupants of another vehicle and then fleeing with money and cellphones in the victims’ vehicle and the one they showed up in during the October holdup, Honig said.