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A probation officer in New Jersey is going to prison for coercing a woman he supervised to have sex with him. A judge in Monmouth County on Thursday sentenced Henry Cirignano, 48, of Wall Township, to 10 years in prison. He must serve nearly 7 years before he’ll be eligible for parole. The 18-year veteran of the probation department will…

A judge sentenced a New Jersey man to five years in prison for shooting his neighbor’s dog with an air rifle, causing the animal to be euthanized. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement with William Stroemel, 65, of Maple Shade, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. Stroemel pleaded guilty in April to possession of a weapon...

A woman who pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend and burning his body was sentenced to 24 years in prison. A judge sentenced Dawn McIntosh on Wednesday for the August 2015 killing of Shron McWhorter, the New York Daily News reported. McIntosh killed McWhorter, who was 43 and her boyfriend at the time, in a car in Astoria, Queens, following an…

A New York City man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his girlfriend outside her Pennsylvania home more than three years ago. Edia Lawrence, 21, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, robbery, burglary and related crimes in the March 2017 death of 19-year-old Ahshantianna Johnson in Mount Wolf. During…

A 35-year-old Bronx man was sentenced to six years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision for “savagely beating and biting” his ex-girlfriend, according to the district attorney. Koran Hilliard was sentenced Tuesday after being found guilty of second-degree assault, bribing a witness, fourth-degree tampering with a witness and 29 counts of second-degree criminal contempt last December, according to Bronx…

A former postal service worker convicted of intercepting packages of marijuana and delivering them to a drug dealer in return for cash payments has been sentenced to three years of probation. Fred Rivers, 48, of Newark, will also have to serve one year of home confinement under the sentence handed down late last week. Rivers was convicted last July on…

Jelani Maraj, brother of rapper Nicki Minaj, was sentenced Monday morning to 25 years to life in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home, a spokesperson for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office told NBC News. Maraj was convicted in November 2017 of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a…

A New York City man involved in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs by a process known as “skimming” has been sentenced to five years in prison, according to federal prosecutors in New Jersey. Bogdan Rusu, 39, of Queens, was also ordered Tuesday to pay $390,141 in restitution. He’ll also have to serve three years…

An employee at a Connecticut supermarket has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for his role in a food stamp scheme that brought in millions. Muhammad Shahbaz, of Jersey City, New Jersey, accepted a deal with federal prosecutors for food stamp fraud and agreed to repay $1.5 million in restitution Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant…

A New York man was sentenced Tuesday in Massachusetts for his role in the sexual abuse of an 18-month-old child, prosecutors said.

A western New York man convicted of leaving menacing phone messages for two prominent Republican members of Congress was sentenced to five years in prison, prosecutors said Thursday.

A New York City man convicted in an extortion scheme that involved kidnapping immigrants at a bus station has been sentenced in Connecticut to eight years in prison.

A Massachusetts man who traveled to New Jersey to have sex with someone he thought was an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

A New Jersey mother who passed out while intoxicated and suffocated her toddler son is now headed to prison.

A former NYPD officer was sentenced to nine months in jail for assaulting a 19-year-old young man and falsifying documents related to the violent 2017 incident, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

A Brooklyn man could spend up to 20 years in prison for raping a teenage girl at gunpoint in 1994, authorities say.

Two New Jersey men have been sentenced to more than 135 years each for a triple murder that occurred in 2017, authorities announced Wednesday.

A former City University of New York Baruch College basketball coach and athletic department official has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from a Manhattan school.

A former college basketball coach convicted of sexually assaulting a male teenager who played on a traveling team that he also coached has been sentenced to 52 years in state prison.

A man who admitted fatally shooting his father inside their family home has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.