A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in scamming millions from a public fund for traumatic brain injury victims.
The driver of a FedEx tractor trailer was held up by two men after making a pickup in an Edison industrial park who ordered him at gunpoint to drive the truck to a location in the same industrial area where two more men and a box truck were waiting.
Joan Franklin Polanco is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Edison death of Lizbeth Benitez-Rivera, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.