EVESHAM, NJ – Evesham police detectives are looking for three masked bandits who robbed the local Wineworks on Route 70 of tequila.  According to police, on May 2, 2020, at approximately 4:17pm, the Evesham Police Department investigated a shoplifting at the Wineworks, 319 W. Rte. 70, where three females shoplifted multiple bottles of Tequila. If anyone knows the identity of these females, you are asked to contact the Evesham Police Department at 856-983-1116, the Confidential Tip Line at 856-983-4699 or email at [email protected]. Anonymous tips text ETPDTIP to 847411. ETPD reminds residents to always immediately report all suspicious activity to the Evesham Police Department at 856-983-1111 or 911 for crimes in progress.

UTAH – The Utah State Police caught a 5-year-old on a mission to show his mom, that he CAN have a Lamborghini after she told him no.  Here’s what the Utah State Police had to say.  One of our Troopers in Weber Co. initiated a traffic stop on what he thought was an impaired driver. Turns out it was this young man, age 5, somehow made his way up onto the freeway in his parents’ car. Made it from 17th and Lincoln in Ogden down to the 25th St off-ramp SB I-15. His story is that he left home after an argument with Mom, in which she told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini. He decided he’d take the car and go to California to buy one himself. He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 dollars in his wallet.

One of our Troopers in Weber Co. initiated a traffic stop on what he thought was an impaired driver. Turns out it was this young man, age 5, somehow made his way up onto the freeway in his parents' car. Made it from 17th and Lincoln in Ogden down to the 25th St off-ramp SB I-15. pic.twitter.com/3aF1g22jRB

— Utah Highway Patrol (@UTHighwayPatrol) May 4, 2020

NEW JERSEY – The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday morning for a missing kayaker in the Raritan Bay.

At 3:12 p.m. on Saturday, Coast Guard Sector New York command center watch standers received a call from citywide 911 that three kayaks, each with one person on board, had all overturned in Raritan Bay. A nearby good Samaritan had picked up two of the kayakers from the water, but the third was still unaccounted for. None of them were wearing life jackets.

Within minutes of receiving the call, Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook launched a response boat that arrived on the scene and began searching with partner agencies for the third kayaker. Shortly after, an MH-65 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City joined the search. They were later joined by the Coast Guard Cutter Shrike, who searched through the night. An Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 helicopter conducted the final first-light search.

“Suspending a search is never an easy decision to make,” said Capt. Jason Tama, commander of Coast Guard Sector New York. “We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends who have been impacted by this tragic incident.”

The Coast Guard utilized three boat crews and three helicopter crews in addition to multiple NYPD and FDNY assets in the search.

Involved in the search were:

• Coast Guard Sector New York
• Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City
• Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod
• Coast Guard Cutter Shrike
• Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook
• New York Police Department Aviation
• New York Police Department Harbor Rescue
• New York Police Department Dive Teams
• New York Fire Department Marine Rescue

The Coast Guard search is suspended pending the development of new information.

NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted defrauding the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers Compensation, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Janeide Chillis, 53, of Irvington, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by teleconference before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to an information charging her with one count of making false statements and committing fraud to obtain federal workers’ compensation.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

Chillis was a U.S. Postal Service employee. In March 2006, she signed and filed under penalty of perjury a form with the U.S. Department of Labor claiming she suffered disabling injuries from a slip-and-fall accident at work. Chillis also provided a letter from a New Jersey doctor who claimed that Chillis was “temporarily totally disabled.” As a result of those representations, Chillis began receiving workers’ compensation benefits from the U.S. Department of Labor. For the next several years, in order to maintain such benefits, Chillis periodically submitted additional forms certifying that she was unemployed and would report any income or other information that affected her receipt of benefits. Notwithstanding those representations, from 2011 through the present, Chillis earned extra income and traveled extensively, including to Africa and France, all of which she did not report to the U.S. Department of Labor.

During the same time period, Chillis also received reimbursement payments for home health aide services. Beginning in 2013, she stopped receiving home health aide services, but continued receiving reimbursement based on false representations she made to the U.S. Department of Labor.

In total, Chillis received $686,588 in federal benefits from her fraud.

The count of making false statements and committing fraud to obtain federal workers’ compensation benefits is punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss derived from the offense, whichever is greater. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 10, 2020.

U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area Field Office Matthew M. Modafferi; the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Region, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael C. Mikulka; the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General, New York Field Division, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge John Grasso; and special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Laura J. Perry, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua L. Haber of the Health Care Fraud Unit in the Criminal Division, Newark.

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TRENTON, N.J. – A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man will have his initial appearance today for possessing a machine gun as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Davon Harley, 30, of Neptune City, New Jersey, appeared by video conference this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zahid M. Quraishi and was detained without bail. Harley was arrested by local authorities on Feb. 8, 2020, and charged with state offenses. He is now charged by federal criminal complaint with one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a machinegun.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

In February 2020 a Neptune City Police officer confronted Harley, a previously convicted felon, who was arguing with others in the yard of an apartment complex. Harley fled through the apartment complex into neighboring properties and discarded a handgun that, upon inspection, had been altered to fire exclusively in fully automatic mode. The weapon had a magazine capable of holding 31 rounds of ammunition. Members of law enforcement, assisted by the Neptune Township and Asbury Park police departments located Harley and recovered the machine gun and the magazine that Harley had discarded.

The felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Newark Division, Trenton Field Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Charlie J. Patterson; officers of the Neptune City Police Department, under the direction of Police Director Matthew Quagliato; officers of the Neptune Township Police Department, under the direction of Chief of Police James M. Hunt Jr.; officers of the Asbury Park Police Department, under the direction of Chief of Police David Kelso; officers of the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Shaun Golden; and detectives of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Christopher  J. Gramiccioni, with the investigation leading to the charges. This case was brought as part of Project Stop the Violence, a comprehensive strategy to combat gun crimes in Monmouth County.

The government is represented by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Matthews of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division in Trenton.

The charges and allegations contained in the complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.