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Deceased Elmer Street fire victim identified as Alberto Moya-Cuevas from Mexico
This boarded up, vacant house was set on fire in March. The blaze injured two people, one of which died in the hospital. (Photo taken April 29, 2015 - Penny Ray/Trentonian)The man who died earlier this...
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Legal team for ‘Boom Bat’ files motion for fifth trial
Convicted gang leader Jose Negrete’s past murder trials were wracked by jury problems. His legal team said in court papers filed this week in Superior Court his fourth trial, dubbed a “trial by...
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Man who fatally struck John Covington with a car is charged with vehicular...
John Covington of Trenton was killed in January when he was struck by a car. (Contributed photo)The man who fatally struck 44-year-old John Covington with a vehicle as he was crossing the street...
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Lawyer claims police have ‘wrong man’ for 2013 Trenton murder of Andre Corbett
TRENTON >> Defense attorneys usually operate in an arena of reasonable doubt, a high hurdle prosecutors must meet in order to convince a jury to convict someone accused of a crime.Reasonable...
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Key witnesses expected to testify about Corbett murder this week
Keith Wells HolmesThe murder case against Keith Wells-Holmes appears to rely centrally on video surveillance and the word of a Mercer County detective.Absent a clear-cut motive and the murder weapon, a...
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Drug dealer testifies that suspect shot, killed graffiti artist
Admitted drug dealer and convicted felon Michael Barnes said on the stand Tuesday he planned to disregard prosecutors’ subpoena to testify in the murder trial of a Trenton man accused of gunning down...
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Alleged getaway driver granted immunity to testify at Trenton murder trial
TRENTON >> The alleged getaway driver of Keith Wells-Holmes has beenKeith Wells Holmesgranted immunity to testify in Wells-Holmes' murder trial, a rare move that required permission from the...
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Trenton murder trial marked with drama, uncommon proceedings in fifth day
TRENTON >> Bleary eyed attorneys walked out of court Wednesday followingKeith Wells Holmesan exhausting, drama-filled day in the murder trial of Keith Wells-Holmes that required them to work...
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Wells-Holmes trial goes to jury
Keith Wells-HolmesA man known on the streets as Blick was having “beef” with some people two days before Trenton graffiti artist Andre Corbett was murdered in January 2013.Blick is actually Isiah...
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Not guilty verdict delivered in Trenton murder trial for 2013 death
TRENTON >> Keith Wells-Holmes embraced his attorney, thanked her for saving his life and promised to attend college moments after a jury acquitted him of gunning down a Trenton man in 2013 in a...
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Trenton man charged with murder offered plea deal
One of two Trenton men accused of gunning down 26-year-old Brandon Nance outside a city bakery in 2013 was offered a plea deal by prosecutors calling for a 28-year sentence.Dante AlexanderDante...
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Man accused in 2011 murder offered plea deal
A Trenton man accused of fatally shooting city pharmacist Arjun Reddy Dyapa in 2011 must decide whether he is going to plead guilty to an unrelated gun possession charge or take his case to trial, a...
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Joseph Gaines was killed over an outstanding drug debt: Prosecutors
Prosecutors believe a former city drug dealer who had reportedly turned his life around to become a mentor for troubled city youth was killed because of an outstanding drug debt.The revelation came at...
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Attorneys agree to keep evidence about drugs out of Trenton murder trial
Jurors will never know slain hip-hop artist Jafar Lewis was allegedly gunned down in 2013 over a drug debt.Attorneys for both sides agreed to scrub references to a drug debt at the upcoming murder...
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Deceased Elmer Street fire victim identified as Alberto Moya-Cuevas from Mexico
This boarded up, vacant house was set on fire in March. The blaze injured two people, one of which died in the hospital. (Photo taken April 29, 2015 - Penny Ray/Trentonian)The man who died earlier this...
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Legal team for ‘Boom Bat’ files motion for fifth trial
Convicted gang leader Jose Negrete’s past murder trials were wracked by jury problems. His legal team said in court papers filed this week in Superior Court his fourth trial, dubbed a “trial by...
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Man who fatally struck John Covington with a car is charged with vehicular...
John Covington of Trenton was killed in January when he was struck by a car. (Contributed photo)The man who fatally struck 44-year-old John Covington with a vehicle as he was crossing the street...
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Shaheed Brown rejects plea deal for murder charges, will head to trial
TRENTON >> The murder case against a Trenton man accused of fatallyProsecutors say this surveillance photo shows Shaheed Brown (left) and Enrico Smalley Jr. minutes before Smalley was gunned down...
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City man stabbed to death Sunday morning in Trenton
A 33-year-old city man was stabbed to death in the area of St. Joe's and Sherman Avenues early Sunday morning.According to Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, Paris...
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Brown and Dawson each sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder of Tracy Crews
The best man convicted of killing his close friend, a Trenton drug dealer, in a botched home invasion in 2008 maintained his innocence before he was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the slaying, his...
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