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A Galloway Township man was charged with murder yesterday after allegedly throwing his infant daughter from the Driscoll Bridge in Woodbridge Township.
Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor filed a complaint charging Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 21 with murder. The first-degree charge carries a sentence of 30 years to life in state prison.
February 17, 2010 - A Galloway Township man has been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder, among other offenses, after he allegedly abducted his infant daughter in East Orange on Feb. 16. Police received information that he threw the baby from the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway, said Acting Attorney General Paula T. Dow.
A search to locate the missing 3-month old, Zara Malani-lin Abdur, is continuing in the area of the bridge over the Raritan River in Sayreville, according to State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes. The search began on the evening of Feb 16.
Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor reported that the father, Shamsiddi Abdur-Raheem, 21, of Galloway Township, has been charged by the East Orange Police Department with kidnapping (1st degree), attempted murder (1st degree), two counts of aggravated assault (2nd degree), and endangering the welfare of a child (2nd degree). Abdur-Raheem will be lodged in the Essex County Jail in lieu of $700,000 bail. It is anticipated that he will be arraigned on the charges tomorrow in Superior Court in Essex County.
Four men were indicted on charges they conspired to steal more than $435,000 by filing hundreds of fraudulent state income tax returns using stolen and fictitious identities.
According to Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni, the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes Bureau obtained a state grand jury indictment charging the following four men with conspiring in a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least 585 state tax refund checks totaling $435,577 between February 2005 and February 2008:
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