A man allegedly ripped the door off a motorist's car and tried to strangle her before being subdued by two soldiers who came upon the scene in Waterford who serve in the Army Reserves at Fort Dix saw the assault on Jackson Road near Waverly Avenue at approximately 8:40 a.m the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said The incident allegedly occurred after the attacker's car crashed into a wooded area He then stopped a 59-year-old Lindenwold woman whose vehicle was not involved in the accident Pedestrian in peril: Police say driver targeted man on a Cherry Hill sidewalk "The suspect reportedly ripped open the locked passenger side door and began assaulting the victim after she refused," according to the prosecutor's account One of the soldiers used a fire extinguisher to break a window on the woman's vehicle in order to remove the suspect "Additional passersby stopped to assist and call 911," the account said The victim was hospitalized in stable condition one of whom is a Philadelphia police officer McDonald is being held in Camden County Jail pending a detention hearing in state court Anyone with information is asked to call Prosecutor's Det Kristen Blantz at 856-225-8642 and Waterford Township Police Sgt Jim Walsh is a senior reporter with the Courier-Post Burlington County Times and The Daily Journal 2025 at 11:28 am ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}A man serving a 10-year sentence was found dead at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix this week NJ — A man serving a 10-year sentence was found dead at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix this week He was the second person to die at the prison in less than a month The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Macos Sanchez-Santana died Wednesday at the Burlington County prison Employees found him unresponsive around 3:15 a.m. Officials did not specify where in the prison he died Employees started life-saving measures and called emergency medical services to the prison The prison notified the FBI of Sanchez-Santana's death According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Sanchez-Santana was serving his sentence at Fort Dix after he was convicted in the District of Puerto Rico for conspiracy to import cocaine He had been in custody at FCI Fort Dix since Aug Sanchez-Santana's death comes less than a month after 34-year-old Javier Francisco Villalba-Reyes was found unresponsive by prison staff employees also attempted to resuscitate him but EMS personnel pronounced him dead at the scene Villalba-Reyes was serving a four-year sentence for possession with intent to distribute cocaine He had been in the prison's custody for a little over a month is a low-security institution located on the grounds of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. 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Herb Conaway criticizes Trump admin plan; Chris Smith says it could work Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL), a military facility that sprawls across eight towns in Burlington and Ocean Counties, is reportedly being considered by President Donald Trump as a potential detainment location for undocumented immigrants as part of his administration’s mass deportation efforts That’s news to the area’s two local representatives Herb Conaway (D-Delran) and Chris Smith (R-Manchester) both told the New Jersey Globe yesterday that they had learned about the Trump administration’s prospective plan from reporting by the New York Times and other outlets rather than from the administration itself But the two congressmen – one a Democrat in office for less than two months another a Republican who’s been in Washington for 44 years – had differing opinions on whether the plan itself was a good idea who represents the western half of the base in Burlington County said that detaining immigrants did not fit the intended purpose of JB MDL “I am concerned about the use of the military for these mass deportations at the outset It’s not an appropriate use of our national defense system,” he said “It’s just not part of the military’s mission to be involved in these sorts of operations My hope is – it’s a faint hope – that there’ll be a reconsideration by the administration of using our military in this way.” Himself an Air Force veteran, Conaway noted that the base has been used in the past for housing large numbers of people, like when more than 10,000 Afghan refugees were housed at the base after the U.S was an appropriate emergency use of the base unlike any deportation program Trump seeks to implement “The Afghan refugees were a part of a withdrawal from wartime operations,” Conaway said “This is a situation that doesn’t involve wartime and therefore should not require our standing Air Force and Navy to be involved in these kinds of operations.” who represents the eastern Ocean County part of the base was far more sanguine about the detainment plan similarly citing the Afghan refugee example as evidence that it could be pulled off “If we have the capacity there, and we have the ability to ensure that there [aren’t] safety issues for the personnel at the base, then I’d be for it,” said Smith, who has a long history with the base, including fighting against its closure with former Rep Smith added that he believes the Trump administration is focusing its early deportation efforts on “the worst of the worst” – murderers and rapists who are in the country illegally – though Trump’s deportation goals clearly go beyond just violent criminals and reporting on the administration’s plans doesn’t indicate that military bases would only house such offenders Any changes that might be coming to JB MDL could still be a ways away. The Trump administration is reportedly focusing on Fort Bliss, a base near El Paso in Texas, as its initial staging ground for deportations, which could then serve as a model for other bases across the country like JB MDL sometime in the future That may give New Jersey time to prepare; Smith and Conaway both said that they plan to talk to local officials and JB MDL leaders soon But given the Trump administration’s tendency to move quickly and abruptly – oftentimes without consulting local elected officials as seems to have been done in this case – things could change at any moment “I think they’re moving at warp speed,” Smith said Get important news about your town as it happens Get the top stories from across our network Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from daily updates A 34-year-old man died after being unresponsive in his cell at FCI Fort Dix in Burlington County on the early morning of Wednesday Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in Burlington County lifesaving measures were initiated for Macos Sanchez-Santana after he was found unresponsive Sanchez-Santana was pronounced dead by EMS personnel Sanchez-Santana had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the District of Puerto Rico for conspiracy to commit cocaine He had been at FCI Fort Dix since last August No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger The FBI was notified following Sanchez-Santana's death This is the second death at FCI Fort Dix in as many months. On Tuesday Javier Francisco Villalba-Reyes died after being found unresponsive in his cell CAMDEN — A man imprisoned for possessing child pornography has received an additional term for having elicit images of child sexual abuse on a smuggled cell phone who was serving a 10-year term at FCI Fort Dix The former Massachusetts man had been scheduled for release from his initial term in March 2026 A January 2022 search at FCI Ford Dix found hundreds of sexually explicit images of children on a digital-storage card hidden in Baldwin's clothing according to the federal prosecutor's office Stopping smugglers: South Jersey prison has plan to thwart illegal cellphones Baldwin admitted guilt in July 2023 to possessing child pornography the same charge for which he was initially imprisoned A criminal complaint filed in a separate case in 2018 alleged about a dozen inmates had participated in a child pornography ring at FCI Fort Dix. all serving time for child pornography crimes used contraband cellphones to access illegal images on the Dark Web It alleged they stored images and video on digital cards that could be inserted in a smart phone sentenced Baldwin on Wednesday in Camden federal court also ordered him to spend seven years on supervised release This work, Army takes home gold at multi-service Summer Olympics, by SFC Deziree Lau, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright A 34-year-old man was found dead in Federal Correctional Institute Fort Dix in Burlington County on Tuesday Javier Francisco Villalba-Reyes was found unresponsive in his cell EMS were requested and did lifesaving efforts Villalba-Reyes had been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of possession with intent to distribute 45.78 kilograms of cocaine No employees or prisoners were injured and at no time was the public in danger This work, USASA Fort Dix: More than a century of premier training support, by Susan Moriarty, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardTrump could use a South Jersey military base to confine undocumented immigrantsThe surge of arrests under the Trump administration is already crowding the capacity of the ICE detention system an effort that could eventually touch South Jersey and the sprawling Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst The administration’s plan to deport millions of people includes a military base component and a detention hub is being developed at Fort Bliss That hub would be a model for tent-camp sites in more than a dozen states, including the installation that spreads through Burlington and Ocean Counties Here is a look at how immigration and the local base could be impacted along with the Clinton County Correctional Facility and the Pike County Correctional Facility The Trump administration also has held immigrants at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and even before the inauguration the Biden administration was exploring ways to add 600 beds in New Jersey Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is the Defense Department’s only tri-service base “a vital hub for global reach,” as it describes itself It was created from the 2009 combination of three installations: McGuire Air Force Base, once known as Rudd Field; the Army’s Fort Dix; and the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, perhaps best-known as the site of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. The base stands 18 miles southeast of Trenton spanning 42,000 acres and covering 20 miles from east to west host to more than 40,000 active-duty service members Asked about the possibility of holding immigrants at the base “We do not have any information to provide.” This week the spokesperson referred questions to ICE and regulations under which immigrants might be held remain to be seen new populations — none of whom had been involuntarily forced onto a military base to await deportation some of the base’s existing brick housing was supplemented by what were called tents though those structures were hardened and more resilient than canvas Fort Dix housed Hungarian refugees fleeing Soviet repression Yes. The Department of Defense can make military bases available to any federal or local law-enforcement officials for law-enforcement purposes according to the National Immigration Law Center which works to advance the rights of low-income immigrants amid a crush of migrants from Central America President Barack Obama housed thousands of children who were fleeing El Salvador Congressman Herb Conaway, an Air Force veteran whose Third District includes McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst called any Trump administration use of the base where he once served “egregious.” “We are not at war — there is no justification for using wartime resources or facilities for his inhumane mass deportation plan,” the Democrat said in a statement released Tuesday New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim, a Democrat who was previously the representative in the Third District did not immediately respond to a request for comment a Republican whose Fourth District includes part of the base (7News) — A man will return to prison after pleading guilty to gaining nearly $1.9 million in federal COVID Aid and relief funds while serving time in a federal prison and by using stolen identities will spend 98 months or just over 8 years in prison after submitting roughly 191 fraudulent COVID Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act money while an inmate at Fort Dix in New Jersey between March 22 2023 alongside fellow inmate Jason Dodd of working with other inmates and outside individuals to submit the applications which included the names and stolen personal identifying information of the people Federal officials said Henry submitted claims mostly in Maryland Henry would receive prepaid debit cards to the addresses known to co-conspirators who would pick up the card and use the money on retail purchases Henry hadn't been in federal custody since December of 2022 PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP — The Pemberton Township Board of Education has approved the hiring of a high school new principal Darvis Holley has been selected for the role He has experience as an assistant principal at Pemberton Township Schools' Helen A Newcomb middle schools between the years of 2014 to 2021 Holley has served as the principal at the district's Fort Dix Elementary School which was named as one of the Best Elementary Schools by U.S Other achievements for Fort Dix Elementary School under his tenure include being named a Purple Star school by the New Jersey Department of Education recertification as a National School of Character and being a recipient of a Promising Practice award for its commitment to character education Holley has been active in local government Holley was a 2017 fellow in the New Leaders Council-New Jersey and is a former vice president and treasurer of theWillingboro & Vicinity Branch of the NAACP “I'm incredibly excited about the opportunity to serve as the new principal at Pemberton Township HighSchool," Holley said in a press release "It's both an honor and a responsibility that I take seriously and I'm eager to begin this journey with the staff "PTHS has a rich history and strong sense of community and I'm looking forward to building upon that foundation." Holley received his doctorate in organization leadership from Stockton University He holds amaster’s in school leadership from Wilmington University in Delaware and a bachelor’sin special education from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina “My primary focus will be on fostering a positive and inclusive school culture where every student feelssupported and empowered to achieve their full potential," Holley added Nick Butler is an impact reporter for the Courier Post the Daily Journal and the Burlington County Times covering community news in South Jersey The following is a rundown of many of the major events in the base's long and cherished 100-year history: 1917: The United States enters World War I George Mulheron and 19 soldiers from the 26th New Jersey Engineers arrive in Wrightstown to begin establishing an Army training camp on 5,000 acres and an adjacent rifle range leased from a local landowner 1917: Camp Dix is formally established and named in honor of Maj a veteran of the War of 1812 and Civil War minister to France and governor of New York Camp Dix now consists of over 1,655 buildings making it the largest military installation in the Northeast its mission will change to demobilizing some 300,000 returning soldiers 1933: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression Camp Dix becomes one of the mobilization and training sites The CCC helps construct the first airstrip at the installation 1939: Camp Dix becomes a permanent Army post and its name is changed to Fort Dix September 1939: World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland; Dix will become a reception and training center for men inducted under the peacetime draft enters World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dix will end up training 10 divisions of soldiers and numerous smaller units 1945: World War II ends with the Japanese surrender; Dix will become a separation center for the return of more than 1.2 million soldiers to civilian life 1947: Fort Dix becomes an Army basic training center and an advanced training center for Army clerks January 1948: Fort Dix Army Air Base is transferred to the Air Force and renamed McGuire Air Force Base after World War II ace Maj 1953: The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice agreement 1960: Singer Elvis Presley is discharged from the Army at Fort Dix enters the Vietnam War; training at Fort Dix increases and a mock Vietnamese village is eventually constructed at the post for specific in-country training 1969: Several thousand protesters demonstrate at Fort Dix against the war and the treatment of soldiers held in the base's stockade 1970: Three members of the Weather Underground are killed in an accidental explosion in Greenwich Village in New York City while building a bomb that the radical group intended to detonate at Fort Dix November 1971: The "Free the Army" anti-war show featuring actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland performs in Wrightstown ends direct military involvement in Vietnam February 1976: Hundreds of soldiers become infected during a swine flu outbreak on Fort Dix that ultimately claims the life of a 19-year-old private 1978: The first female soldiers go through basic training on Fort Dix 1979: The Pentagon studies the closure of Fort Dix 1989: The Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommends that Fort Dix be placed on "semi-active status" for Reserve and National Guard training but without an active-duty basic training mission Congress later votes to approve the change setting off the first Gulf War and round-the-clock training efforts at Fort Dix August 1992: The final Basic Combat Training class graduates from Fort Dix May 1999: The first of more than 4,000 Kosovar refugees arrive at Fort Dix from war-torn former Yugoslavia and are sheltered in converted military dormitories until mid-July while awaiting resettlement or a return to their native country 2001: Terrorists hijack four airplanes as part of deadly attacks targeting New York and Washington; Fort Dix is closed to the public for the first time in its history and remains closed due to heightened security concerns 2001: A military police officer posted on Fort Dix goes on a violent rampage on and off the installation wounding two fellow soldiers and two civilian officers before he is shot and killed during a gunfight at the Columbus Farmers Market in Springfield August 2005: BRAC recommends merging Fort Dix with adjacent McGuire Air Force Base and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst into a single "megabase." 2007: Six suspected terrorists are arrested by the FBI after they take possession of several disabled machine guns they hoped to purchase as part of an alleged homegrown terrorist plot to kill soldiers on Fort Dix June 2008: About 3,000 members of the New Jersey National Guard's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are mobilized and deployed from Fort Dix the base's largest deployment of New Jersey National Guard soldiers since World War II 2009: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is officially created Gina Grasso as the merged installation's new commander April 2015: Mobilization and demobilization missions for troops deploying to Iraq Afghanistan and other military operations end on the joint base 2016: Over 150,000 service members are trained at the joint base throughout the year airmen and Marines participate in a nearly monthlong combat training Warrior Exercise (WAREX) at the joint base David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: dlevinsky@calkins.com; Twitter: @davidlevinsky JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST – A federal prison here is introducing a new tactic in its fight against smuggled cellphones FCI Fort Dix has announced plans for a “contraband interdiction system” intended to identify and disable illegal phones at the lock-up for almost 3,900 low- and minimum-security inmates Smuggled phones have been a longtime concern at the prison, where inmates used them to coordinate deliveries of contraband — including more cellphones — via late-night drone flights between October 2018 and June 2019. More: Court fight in Cumberland County South Jersey prison guard suing Murphy over COVID vaccine rules. What the lawsuit claims In addition, the FBI accused five inmates in 2017 and three more in 2018 with allegedly using illegal phones to access child pornography in the prison. An affidavit filed with a criminal complaint in that case noted 1,522 phones were confiscated at FCI Fort Dix in 2016 up from 652 a year earlier and 217 in 2014 An inmate cooperating with investigators said phones were hidden "in light fixtures closets and under lockers,” according to the affidavit FCI Fort Dix disclosed its interdiction strategy in a legally required public notice of just two sentences “Those in the surrounding community should be aware there is potential for accidental call blocking during deployment,” the notice said Bureau of Prisons offered no additional information the Bureau of Prisons does not discuss specific internal security practices at any institution,” said agency spokesman Donald Murphy The Federal Communications Commission announced rules for prison interdiction systems that took effect in May 2022 have been smuggled into correctional facilities nationwide,” it said in announcing a framework for the rules in July 2021 The FCC said inmates used the devices for criminal activities “posing serious threats to officials and incarcerated people within the facility and innocent members of the public.” It said interdiction systems have “one or more stations” designed “exclusively to prevent transmissions to or from contraband wireless devices within (a prison) and/or to obtain identifying information from such … devices.” Cellphone service providers are required to disable the phones “at both the subscription and device level” within two business days of receiving a report from a prison The providers must also take “all reasonable and practical steps to prevent (a contraband phone) from accessing other wireless provider networks,” it added The triad of notorious Nigerian Internet fraudsters has been languishing in U.S Three infamous Nigerian Internet fraudsters with strong social media and political influence are currently serving out their sentences at the same prison facility in the United States with Bidemi Rufai set to be released on Valentine’s Day in 2025 are all being held at Fort Dix low-security prison near Joint Base McGuire Burlington County where they will presumably serve out the rest of their jail terms a close ally of Governor Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) where he had booked a Royal Dutch ticket to flee the U.S FBI special agent Heidi Hawkins coordinated the arrest after uncovering a scheme showing how Mr Rufai stole the identities of thousands of U.S citizens to claim their COVID-19 benefits running into half a million dollars He lavished the stolen funds on luxury cars and watches to shore up his extravagant lifestyle He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. The U.S. government ordered him to pay $604,000 as restitution to victims of the scam, majorly government institutions like the Washington Employment Security Department ($350,763) Arkansas Division of Workforce Services ($10,166) Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency ($44,216) to Fort Dix in Burlington County ahead of his release on Valentines’ Day in 2025 had also been moved from the notorious Danbury correctional centre in Connecticut to Fort Dix be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Judge Robert Gettleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago convicted and sentenced Mr Woodberry to eight years and three months in jail over one count of fraud in July 2023 He was handed a lighter sentence that shaved off seven other counts in a plea bargain a socialite with over a million followers on his now-deactivated Instagram page alongside fellow fraudster Hushpuppi The court ordered him to return $8 million to seven victims and prosecutors recommend he forfeit his diamond-studded necklace and rings and all gold jewellery the sensational Hushpuppi and serial Internet fraudster who once enjoyed uploading pictures and videos of his designer wearing posh rides and luxury parties on Instagram has also been shipped to Fort Dix detention facility was moved from a facility outside Los Angeles to Fort Dix where he is expected to serve the rest of his sentence until August 6 Arrested in June 2020 in Dubai and extradited to the U.S. to defend himself against Internet scam charges, Hushpuppi was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2022 by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II. It was not immediately clear whether the U.S. prison officials were aware that the Nigerian trio they transferred to the same facility were allies from Nigeria and Dubai. However, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons told The Gazette, “Concerning your inquiry, for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including sharing the reasons why a specific individual is designated to a particular correctional institution.”  Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ response, which came after initial version was published. 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Learn more about Social Responsibility at WHYY speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S was stabbed in the eyeball by a fellow prisoner earlier this month It’s the latest gruesome example of violence in a prison system plagued by chronic unrest WASHINGTON (AP) — An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S was stabbed in the eyeball by a fellow prisoner this month the latest gruesome example of violence in a prison system plagued by chronic unrest The 27-year-old inmate was attacked from behind at FCI Fort Dix a low-security prison in Burlington County that is run by the same warden who was in charge of a Manhattan federal jail when financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press The people familiar with the matter were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and insisted on anonymity The bureau attempted to place N’Diaye in the Fort Dix job a year earlier but the move was stopped by then-Attorney General William Barr after the AP reported the transfer The Justice Department’s inspector general has yet to complete the investigation located on the grounds of the joint military base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is the largest single federal prison by population An adjacent prison camp has 231 minimum-security inmates with two inmates dying of the disease and more than 1,600 inmates and 100 staff members testing positive and recovering The prison made headlines in 2019 when an inmate a former inmate and two other people were arrested for using a drone to smuggle in contraband including cellphones a Fort Dix correctional officer pleaded guilty to pocketing bribes to smuggle in contraband