Attorney General: Troopers in High-Speed Luxury Car Escort Altered Plates

The troopers have been criminally charged in connection with the March 2012 incident.

Two state troopers have been criminally charged in connection with providing a high-speed escort on the Garden State Parkway for a fleet of luxury cars, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced Friday. The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) received complaints regard the March 2012 caravan to Atlantic City, and the troopers were subsequently suspended without pay in April. “They turned the highway into a virtual speedway,” Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said in a press conference in Trenton on Friday. "What they did was absolutely wrong." An investigation into the incident found that the troopers, Sgt. First Class Nadir Nassry, 47, and Trooper Joseph Ventrella, 28, allegedly concealed the license plates on their NJSP vehicles to …

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The Big Baby Boy At Atlantic City Medical Center

He was 11 pounds, 5 ounces when he was born; his birth was deemed "life-threatening;" 14 years later, everybody's good

The doctors said his head size was "off the charts." It all seemed kind of funny. Then they warned the worst: Normal delivery could kill Tommy, and my wife. The only choice the doctors gave us was the date. The C-section had to happen in March, they said. The last week, just before Easter. In the OR, at what was known then as the Atlantic City Medical Center's mainland division, in Galloway. Just pick the day, we were told. When we sat down to eat what would be our last meal, on March 23, 1998, on the day before his birth, we sort of knew we'd get through this. Or, at least, that's what we coached ourselves into believing, because we coached ourselves through a lot of things before. The doctors warned us enough, we thought. We weren't …

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