Week in Review

Week In Review: Bank Robbery, High School Athletics and Good News For Taxpayers

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Monday, March 12 Nationals Titles Highlight Successful Cheer and Dance Seasons The Fair Lawn High School Dance and Cheerleading teams wrapped up successful seasons over the past few weekends, highlighted by their first place finishes last month at the Spirit Unlimited Battle at the Boardwalk Cheerleading and Dance Nationals in Atlantic City.  Tuesday, March 13 County Employee From Fair Lawn Saves Taxpayers $650K Fair Lawn resident and county employee JoMarie Sacchinelli was awarded the county's Taxpayer Advocate Award last week for saving county taxpayers $650,000 by reducing the county's car fleet. Lacrosse Star on Shortlist for 2014 Israeli National Team Fair Lawn native Rich Cheifitz, a 19-year-old lacrosse superstar attacker at Kean …

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Man Implicated in Fair Lawn Bank Robbery Jailed in Alabama

A man implicated in a number of bank robberies, including one in Fair Lawn last year, has been arrested in Mobile, Ala.

A man implicated in the robbery of the Chase Bank on Fair Lawn Avenue last July was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in jail for a subsequent bank robbery he confessed to committing in Alabama, Patch has learned. James Raymond Jacobs, of Morrisville, Pa., was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery and obstruction of justice on Aug. 9, after police said he robbed an RBC Bank in Mobile, Ala. and then led them on a brief chase before crashing his vehicle, according to a report in the Mobile Press-Register. Jacobs plead guilty to the Mobile bank robbery on Nov. 15, and was sentenced Tuesday to serve just under six years in jail. Records indicate that Jacobs had been incarcerated in Mobile County Jail since his arrest back in August while…

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