FOUR ARRESTED IN DEADLY SHORT HILLS MALL CARJACKING

From left: Karif Ford, Kevin Roberts, Hanif Thompson and Basim Henry.

 NJ.com reports:
NEWARK — Nearly a week after 30-year-old Hoboken lawyer Dustin Friedland was gunned down in a deadly carjacking while returning to his vehicle in an upper level parking deck of the Mall at Short Hills, police this morning arrested four men on charges of murder.
The four, were identified as Karif Ford, 31, Basim Henry, 32, Kevin Roberts, 35, all of Newark, and Hanif Thompson, 29, of Irvington. All were being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility on $2 million bail each.
Thompson was taken into custody at his home in Irvington. Ford and Roberts were arrested in Newark. Henry was arrested, by an FBI task force, at a hotel in Easton, Pa., said Anthony Ambrose, chief of detectives for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. He said the arrests began around 9 p.m. Friday and concluded at about 3 a.m. today.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray, surrounded by representatives of state, federal and county law enforcement agencies that participated in the investigation, said in a press conference this morning announcing the arrests that they were "not here today for any victory dance."

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