A drug dealer from Pleasantville was given clemency by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Timothy Baker was serving a 30 year prison term and had his sentence cut in half by the President. Baker will be eligible for release on May 17th.
So long, Kmart. Kmart department stores in Rio Grande and Pleasantville will close their doors by the end of March. The parent company for the stores announced that these two locations are on the chopping block as 78 Kmarts and 26 Sears stores are closing across the country. Two other Kmarts in New Jersey will…
A Pleasantville man was charged last week with being an accomplice to murder and to conspiracy to commit murder, in connection with the shooting death of an Egg Harbor City man in Pleasantville on September 10, 2016. Robert Terrell has been charged in the death of Rasheed Hines. The potential penalty for a conviction of…
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office has identified the 37 year-old victim of a fatal hit-and-run that occurred on Nov. 3rd on Route 40 near the Bayview Inn and Suites. Amy Smith of Atlantic City was the victim of the accident, when she was struck by a vehicle allegedly driven by 27 year-old Carlos Ignacio Prada…
A 22 year old Pleasantville man charged with fatally shooting a neighbor has been rounded up in Cobbs County, Georgia. Authorities announced that Hassan Montague-Reed has been captured and will be sent back to New Jersey. He is accused of killing a 19 year old neighbor and then kidnapping a witness to the killing.
An Atlantic County couple pleaded guilty in federal court this week to running a drug-trafficking and money-laundering operation in Atlantic City and Pleasantville. Toye Tutis, 44, and his wife Jazmin Vega admitted to dealing heroin and cocaine between 2010 and December 2014, then using two businesses to launder nearly $3 million in profits from the…
It was on Oct. 29th, 2015, when shots rang out at a Pleasantville Jokers football practice field, next to a youth football game where stands were filled with parents and children. Initially there were no reports of anyone being shot, but a short time later a shooting victim showed up at a local hospital. Police…
A 25 year-old Pleasantville man who was arrested in August in connection with a shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway is back in jail on drug charges. Wilbert Demosthenes was arrested by Pleasantville Police after they found more than 47 grams of uncut drugs in his vehicle. Demosthenes was out on bail from charges in connection…
A student at Pleasantville High School was charged with allegedly bringing brownies laced with marijuana to school on Wednesday. Pleasantville Police charged a juvenile female student with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana. The school resource officer was handling the incident and no illnesses were reported from anyone eating the brownies.
A Pleasantville police officer is credited with saving the life of a 22 day-old infant who had stopped breathing. Officer Marlon Hernandez responded to an apartment on South Main Street for a report of an unresponsive infant at about 4 a.m. on Oct. 5th. Police report that Hernandez immediately began CPR and revived the baby…