Peter J. Cammarano, III pleaded guilty on April 20, 2010 to accepting illegal campaign contributions in return for aiding proposed development projects. He was one of 44 people arrested last summer, as part of a massive public corruption and international money laundering investigation. The New Jersey RCFL (NJRCFL) is supporting the on-going investigation.
4/13/10—Former Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography ChargesThe New Jersey RCFL (NJRCFL) supported the investigation of former New Jersey State Assemblyman Neil Cohen...
9/4/2008: NJRCFL Helps Expose School Bombing HoaxInvestigators are still trying to determine why a minor from New Jersey posted an online threat against the student body of Ashbrook High School in Gastonia, North Carolina. What authorities do know, thanks in part to the computer forensics experts from the New Jersey RCFL (NJRCFL), is the identity of the sender. Investigators also know the threat was nothing more than an empty threat.
4/23/08: Teacher charged with distributing child porn
A teacher in the township middle school was arrested today on charges that he received and distributed child pornography from his home computer, authorities said...
The once powerful ex-mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Sharpe James, was convicted of five public corruption charges, including fraud and conspiracy, along with his ex-girlfriend, Tamika Riley. The New Jersey RCFL supported the federal investigation...
A Lebanon Borough resident employed as a teacher's aide at Phillipsburg Middle School has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography...
06/26/07: Ex-West Windsor man gets 20 years for child porn, probation violation
A federal judge yesterday gave a former West Windsor man the maximum sentence -- 20 years -- for receiving and distributing child pornography on the Internet. And a federal official said, and court documents show, that Mark Wasco indulged in child pornogra phy earlier this year while awaiting sentencing in his case, which violated the terms of his release and his plea agreement, and led to a higher sentence... (Creation Date: 07/02/07)
06/21/07: Co-defendant also found guilty and faces at least 10 years in prison
A Trenton man who authorities say was a Bounty Hunter Bloods gang leader in Trenton's Wilbur neighborhood was convicted of cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges yesterday in federal court in Trenton. Isaac "Chin" Barlow, 32, was convicted of five of the six charges against him. Barlow's co-defendant and "right hand man" in the Bloods gang, Alfredo "Fredo" Payne, 23, was convicted of three charges in the same indictment... (Creation Date: 07/02/07)
12/21/06: State Forensic Laboratory Receives Accreditation
The New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory (NJRCFL) became one of twelve laboratories in the United States to receive accreditation by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB). Attorney General Stuart Rabner and the Newark Division of the FBI made the announcement this week... (Creation Date: 12/21/06)
12/20/06: New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory Earns Prestigious Accreditation
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General and the Newark Division of the FBI proudly announced today that the New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory (NJRCFL) has earned accreditation by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB). NJRCFL becomes one of a dozen laboratories in the United States to have satisfied the ASCLD/LAB governing board’s stringent quality criteria for accredited digital forensic laboratories ... (Creation Date: 12/20/06)
08/19/06: Indictment pegs handyman on 429 counts - Accused of videotaping assaults on Shore children
Clement Bilski Jr. was a handyman for hire. For more than 10 years, and using three business names, Bilski fixed things around houses that his clients couldn't. But once inside, authorities say, he worked on more insidious projects. Bilski, 43, of Ocean Township would ply his clients' children with candy, with games, with praise. He'd ask them to help him while he worked, slowly reeling in their trust, authorities said — then he'd sexually assault them.... (Creation Date: 08/19/06)
08/13/06: Video in Murder Case Forensically Analyzed by NJRCFL Results in Charges
A Connecticut runaway who allegedly fell into a life of prostitution has now been charged with felony murder and kidnapping for her alleged participation in the brutal murder of an 18-year-old Bergen County woman in a Weehawken hotel room two weeks ago... Click here to read more from this NJRCFL Video Case ... (Creation Date: 08/18/06)
February 2nd 2006: Rita Cosby Live & Direct
...LIVE & DIRECT with us tonight is Larry Depew. He is the director of the New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory. Larry, thank you so much for giving sort of a little bit of a tour. You know, before the show, you were showing us the evidence room. Tell us what kind of evidence, you know, in general terms comes into you? And how does it get to you? ... (View web version or PDF Creation Date: 04/12/06)
February/March 2006: State-of-the-Science Crime Lab Blooms in Garden State
The smell of fresh paint and sawdust is still strong in some corners of the new State Police Technology Center in New Jersey. The Technology Center opened in May 2004, next door to the equally new Troop C Headquarters and Communications Center. Sprawled over 38 acres just outside Hamilton on Route 130, the complex is the new home of the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety Forensic Science Center, one of the most preeminent forensic laboratories in the country... (Creation Date: 02/22/06)
There are ways to protect children from Internet predators, but it's a matter of parents getting involved with their children's online usage, according to federal and county law enforcement officials. "You never know who is online on the other end," FBI Special Agent Dave Freyman told a group of parents last week at West Essex Junior High in North Caldwell... (Creation Date: 02/12/06)
10/24/05: Computer forensics: On the cutting edge
A few miles outside Hamilton, N.J., in a sparkling facility that still smells of fresh paint and sawn wood, Larry Depew flips a switch and a blue light starts flashing overhead ... (Creation Date: 10/24/05)
09/14/05: Filipino admits receiving U.S. data, but not secrets
A senator in the Philippines admitted yesterday he is "probably" one of the officials the FBI has said received classified documents through a spy at Fort Monmouth ... (Creation Date: 09/14/05)
09/13/05: Ft. Monmouth analyst faces spy charges
An FBI intelligence analyst who previously worked for Vice President Dick Cheney was charged yesterday with stealing classified documents at Fort Monmouth and passing them to high-level officials within the Philippines government ... (Creation Date: 09/13/05)
03/16/05: Fifty of Government's Best and Brightest Cited for Harvard Award
Harvard University and the Ash Institute of Government, sponsors of the annual "Innovations in Government Award," have named the RCFL Program as a semi-finalist in this prestigious competition ... (Creation Date: 03/16/05)
03/16/05: 2005 Top 50 Programs
The Innovations in American Government Awards (PDF Document, Creation Date: 03/16/05)
11/23/04: New Jersey RCFL Set to Open
On November 23, 2004, the New Jersey Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (NJRCFL) will begin offering digital forensic services to law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the state. In October 2003, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III announced the selection of New Jersey to receive one of five RCFLs, in 2004 ... (Creation Date: 11/23/04)
02/23/04: 'CSI' in Jersey: FBI to build high-tech lab
Federal and state authorities yesterday announced plans to create a state-of-the-art digital forensics lab in Hamilton, one of nine FBI-sponsored sites nationally where detectives will extract electronic evidence from hard drives, cell phones, digital cameras, Palm Pilots and other high-tech gear that have become everyday tools for the modern criminal ... (Creation Date: 02/23/04)
02/23/04: Forensics computer lab to open
HAMILTON - Investigators across the state will have a new tool to pursue computer criminals through a new forensic computer lab announced yesterday by the FBI and state officials ... (Creation Date: 02/23/04)
02/23/04: NJ Fights Cyber Crime
The FBI has selected the state as one of only two sites on the east coast to house a high tech laboratory where agencies will work together fighting cyber crime (Video report included) ... (Creation Date: 02/23/04)
10/08/03: FBI Director Mueller Announces Five New Computer Forensic Laboratories
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today announced that five additional Regional Computer Forensic Laboratories (RCFLs) in Buffalo, NY, Houston, TX, Newark (Trenton), NJ, Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT will join the program, more than doubling the number of these facilities nationwide. RCFLs are highly specialized laboratories that provide forensic examinations of digital media, such as computers, in support of an investigation and/or prosecution of a federal, state or local crime ... (Creation Date: 10/09/03)
