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NJ craigslist creeper posted more than 100 ads

Published on February 8, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .
Eric Fantau

Eric Fantau

Craigslist Posts Solicited Minors for Sex, FBI Says:

Last month the FBI arrested 31-year-old Eric Fantau for allegedly trying to meet a minor for sex at a mall in Wayne, New Jersey. If it’s not fast food joints it’s malls with these creeps. I bet they think it gives them some kind of plausible deniability. “I was just here to by some pants” or something like that.

Anyway the FBI says that Fantau posted more than 100 ads on craigslist looking for sex with minors. They even say that Fantau admits to meeting at least one minor for sex. Right. Just one? I doubt that. With over 100 ads posted I seriously doubt he only got one bite. The FBI must think that too because they believe they’re may have been other victims.

Anyone with information regarding Fantau or if anyone thinks they may be the victims of a crime, call the FBI New York’s tip line at 212-384-1000. All tips and information will remain confidential. Victim specialists will be available to assist victims.

How many of Fantau’s 100 alleged ads were flagged or pulled by craigslist? It wouldn’t surprise me if none of them were flagged. Yet craigslist still allows the casual encounters section to remain unmonitored. I wonder how many kids are molested in a week through craigslist in the New York metropolitan area alone. One is too many and craigslist refuses to do anything about and the media lets it slide. It’s not the story du jour anymore.

Jersey MeetMe perv sent pics of his junk to a 15-year-old girl

Published on October 21, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in MyYearbook/MeetMe and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Paul Kleinman

Jersey City man charged with sending nude photos to teen:

33-year-old Paul Kleinman of Jersey City, New Jersey has been charged with allegedly sending explicit photos of himself to a 15-year-old girl that he met on MeetMe. He’s also accused of soliciting the girl for sex, or as I call it, child rape.

At least Kleinman kept his delusions more realistic as he posed as a 26-year-old on MeetMe as opposed to the 18-year-olds that most mid-30s MeetMe perverts pose as.

Kleinman is being held on $100K bail and the investigation is still ongoing.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Det. Paul Han at 908-965-3809 or Sgt. Ted Dima at 908-245-2300.

Camden dusthead slits the throats of two children

Published on September 6, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

Oswaldo Rivera

Suspect arrested in Camden double stabbing; 1 child dead, 1 critically injured:

Osvaldo Rivera on $5M bail; possible rape, murder charges in Camden attack on boy, 6, and girl, 12:

As I’ve mentioned before I spent most of 2011 in South Jersey on family business. While I was there I was a short drive away from the crime infested suckhole that is Camden, New Jersey. During that time I wrote a lot about Camden and its ineffective government and its not so slow descent into hell.

Since I came back to North Carolina I haven’t really paid too much attention to Camden unless it somehow made national news. It did not too long ago with a Camden woman who killed her son and killed herself. I let that one slide because I thought it was just a fluke that it made the headlines and the fact that it was covered so well over at my other site Bad Breeders. Then this week a similar story also made national headlined which made me rethink my Camden writing policies. So from now on I will be keeping a sharper eye on the Disaster on the Delaware.

As a matter of fact I’m giving Camden its own category here. I know, I have like 1000 of them as it is but Camden truly deserves one. I’m calling it “A City Invincible” for two reasons. The first one is that’s the city’s motto (In a Dream, I Saw a City Invincible). Secondly it really is invincible kind of in the way that a cockroach is in a nuclear war. After decades of violent crime, corruption and an inept government, it still survives.

Today’s story is just more evidence that Camden needs to be put out of its misery.

31-year-old Osvaldo Rivera has been charged in the brutal murder of 6-year-old Dominick Andujar and the attack and possible rape on Dominick’s 12-year-old sister. It seems that Rivera was high on weed laced with PCP and decided to burst into a random house. The house he chose not only had Dominick and his sister in it bust also a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl who was watching them. Dminick and his sister’s mother was in the hospital recovering from surgery and their father lives out of state.

Rivera allegedly slit Dominick’s throat then attacked his sister slitting her throat, stabbing her and possibly raping her. In what order that was done I don’t know. The girl survived her attack and managed escape to a neighbor’s home. Dominick was not so lucky. The girl was able to identify Rivera as the attacker by using the name “Poppy”. Rivera’s street name is “Popeye”. I guess we know what he considers his Spinach.

Police caught up with Rivera at a place he sometimes stays between a mattress and a wall. You know, the first place a cop would think to look. Police were also able to match the bloody sneakers Rivera had to bloody footprints at the scene.

Now because of this and the aforementioned murder-suicide Camden seems to think it has a PCP problem on its hands since the mother was supposedly high on PCP as well. They do, I won’t dispute that. The problem is what are they going to do about it? They have a skeleton crew of a police force due to layoffs and the new proposed Camden County Metro Department isn’t going to be much better.

No wonder the city is invincible, the city is in the control of criminals, the criminals are on PCP and the cops can’t do anything about it.

Camden to disband police force

Published on August 26, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 4 Comments Tags: , .

You won’t be seeing this much in Camden anymore

Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes:

For most of 2011 I wrote a lot about the crime infested cesspool on the Delaware River known as Camden, New Jersey. If you don’t know by my recollection Camden has been the number 1 or 2 most dangerous in the city since at least 2004. I wrote about it a lot last year since I spent most of 2011 not only in New Jersey on a family matter but I was but a stone’s throw from Camden. I haven’t written about it at all this year since I’m back in North Carolina and we don’t get much news from New Jersey down here. However this morsel of information happened to make the national news.

It seems that the fair city of Camden was satisfied with just laying off half of their police force. Now they’re considering plans to disband the police department as a whole. Now that doesn’t mean there won’t be a police presence in Camden. It means that it will be replaced by a Metro Police division of the Camden County Police Department. That means that cities and towns from all over Camden County like Berlin, Clementon, Cherry Hill, Voorhees, Atco, etc. will have their tax money used to patrol Camden. Not surprising since over half of the properties in Camden are non-tax producing properties. Not to mention that where will these police officers be going. Not to any of the places I mentioned but probably mostly to Camden.

The Camden cops that will soon be out of jobs or have new non-union jobs on the Metro force are decrying that this is nothing more than union busting but when a city has no money it can’t pay its employees whether or not their union. However that makes me wonder how much Camden mayor Dana Redd is being paid by the city.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The only thing that would have half a chance of curbing crime in Camden at this point would be martial law and I’m not saying that for hyperbole. Camden is a cancer that could spread throughout the rest of the county where good people live if it is left unchecked. Short of razing it to the ground and starting over from scratch containment is the only possible way to keep the cancer from spreading.

State Police being sent into Camden

Published on December 12, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 4 Comments Tags: , .

N.J. State Police dispatches troopers to Camden to help quell homicide spree:

Congratulations residents of the Garden State. Your tax dollars are now going to fund the State Police going into the cesspool that is Camden to assist their already overworked police department. While this is much needed it’s still using a water pistol to put out a forest fire.

This is a short-term fix to a long-term problem with no real solution in sight. The talks about starting a countywide police force is again just throwing more money from taxpayers outside of Camden into a hole that isn’t there problem.

Camden will never be a place that people want to go to unless drastic measures are taken and these band-aids that the city and state keep coming up with are not going to cut it.

Not only should the city declare a state of emergency if there was any city that was in need of martial law it would be Camden. Until you get the crime problem under control Camden will always be a city on the decline.

City Councilman wants Camden to declare a state of emergency

Published on December 9, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Camden on a good day

Camden officials seek N.J.’s help with surge in crime:

After a store owner and father of five was gunned down in his own store the City Council President of Camden, New Jersey has called on the mayor to declare a state of emergency in the city.

This past week 48-year-old Miguel Almonte was shot and killed during a botched robbery in the mom and pop store that he owned. Three others were wounded and at last check the gunmen were still at large.

This prompted City Council President Frank Moran to introduce a resolution that would urge Camden Mayor Dana L. Redd to declare a state of emergency in the city. That would mean that Mayor Redd could go to the state and request State Police and National Guard assistance.

New Jersey Governor Christie, whom I usually agree with, said that he would decline such a request if it came to him. He seems to place a large part of the blame on the Camden police union for not being willing to negotiate. That may or may not be true but I think what the larger problem is that more than half of the property in Camden is non-tax generating, meaning that the city does not collect taxes on more than half of the properties in the city. If the union was putting a stranglehold on the city it was mere drop in the bucket compared to the lack of taxes.

If it was up to me I wouldn’t hesitate sending in the National Guard to Camden. It’s only a matter of time before a crime is committed there that will result in a massive body count and then everyone will wonder how it could have happened.

If there is any chance of saving Camden the time to act is now before its cancer spreads into the surrounding communities.

Teflon to stick around prison for a while

Published on September 18, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Javon "Teflon" Gordon

Vineland man sentenced for transporting minors in sex trafficking ring:

If you call yourself ‘Teflon’ I am going to use the stick joke every single time. What’s not a joke is what he did.

I originally posted about Javon “Teflon” Gordon here. Back in August of last year he pleaded guilty to running an Atlantic City prostitution ring on craigslist. Not only did the ring include minors but he also used threats of violence and intimidation to keep the girls working for him.

This past week Gordon was sentenced to 15 years in prison. While it’s more than the 10 years I thought he was looking at it’s still not enough.

We are talking about modern-day slavery here. How appalled do you get thinking about slavery in this country prior to the Civil War? Why are you not just as appalled as what goes on today. The only difference is that it transcends racial lines and it involves children being sold for sex and not enough people are fighting against it today.

Craigslist crime post #1512
Prostitution/Human Trafficking post #741

Camden tries to spread its sickness

Published on August 15, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

Camden Council packed with protesters against planned taxes, cuts, police takeover:

Once again the city of Camden, New Jersey shows just how clueless its leaders are.

Now that they have laid off half of their police force and the city is still under siege by criminals the city is now looking to spread their problem to the rest of Camden County.

Now while Camden County may sound like it’s different versions of Camden that is not true. There are actually some quite affluent areas in Camden County like Cherry Hill. So Camden is trying to leech off the rest of the county by trying to get the county to institute a county-wide police force.

As someone who has spent a lot of time in one of the nicer sections of Camden County lately let me be one of the many to say “Hell no”.

Not only should the rest of Camden County not have to bail out Camden’s police woes this would be the first step into Camden’s crime creeping out into the other communities.

As an aside my brother came up with exactly what Camden’s problem is. He says that it’s not just the fact that more than half of Camden’s properties are non-tax paying but the fact that Camden has no ‘good’ section of the city. In cities like Philadelphia and even Detroit there are enclaves of civility and security. Not so in Camden. It’s nothing but a war zone. You can’t bring new revenue into a city that can’t guarantee the safety of at least some of its citizens.

NJ man shot and killed after craigslist robbery goes bad, but not the way you might think

Published on July 17, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Robbery. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Richard Roe

FAILED ROBBERY RESULTS IN DEADLY SHOOTING INVOLVING OFF DUTY CORRECTIONS OFFICER:

Prosecutor says eyewitness, cell phone may provide answers in fatal Pleasantville shooting by corrections officer:

This past Thursday 20-year-old Richard Roe was shot and killed in Pleasantville, New Jersey during an alleged Craigslist robbery that went bad. The thing is that the crime is being investigated as Roe being the robber.

25 year-old Sean Czerwinski was accompanying a family member who was selling a pair of headphones for $500. Supposedly two men attempted robbing the pair at gunpoint. However Czerwinski is an Atlantic County Corrections Officer and was armed at the time. Reports say that Czerwinski produced his sidearm and fired at Roe who eventually died from his wounds.

The phone number that called Czerwinski’s family member was said to have been used in other robberies in the area.

I grew up in the area so I can tell you that the name Pleasantville is an oxymoron so this does not surprise me.

Hopefully this will send a message to other would be craigslist robbers in the area that you never know who you’re messing with when you try to rob someone.

Craigslist crime post #1488
Robbery post #158

Camden replaces cops with cameras

Published on July 13, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Stop right there or I'll take your picture.

Camden Using New Crime Cameras:

The crime infested city of Camden, New Jersey can’t afford to keep a full staff of police however it seems they can afford new surveillance cameras in the city called the ‘Eye in the Sky’ program. They are placing 51 of these cameras throughout the city.

The thought process going on in Camden city hall never ceases to amaze me. While this may sound like a great idea it isn’t. Cameras like this are supposed to work in conjunction with police, not in place of them. These cameras will in no way go towards discouraging crime. Thew only thing that they will do is maybe helping to identify possible suspects. Basically whomever is watching the cameras will be able to see a crime but do nothing effective to be able to stop it in time. That’s why boots on the ground are needed more than cameras.

Why is the city even buying these with the lack of tax revenue they have. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from city hall was related to whomever runs the camera company or is somehow personally financially involved.