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Raymond Perry and David Fate, who were arrested last March in connection with the February 2009 murder of Verona Sunoco station attendant Dan Pritchard, will be arraigned on February 9 before the Essex County Superior Court Judge Peter Vasquez. Today’s announcement by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office follows a Jan. 8 grand jury indictment. Both men are charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses. Bail for Perry, 43, was set at $1.4 million. Bail for Fate, 24, was set at $1 million. Both remain in custody.

24 replies on “Arraignment Tomorrow in 2009 Verona Sunoco Murder”

  2. Can’t believe it’s almost a year already. Geez.
    Hope Judge Vasquez throws the book at them. No mercy.

  4. Almost a full year between arrest and arraignment? That sounds very slow to me. Was the grand jury too busy with indicting close to half of the elected officials in Northeast Jersey? I think trying a crime as heinous as this one should have precedence over locking up some dumb pol who stole the lunch money in a sting operation. MHO, anyway.

  6. Almost a full year between arrest and arraignment? That sounds very slow to me. Was the grand jury too busy with indicting close to half of the elected officials in Northeast Jersey? I think trying a crime as heinous as this one should have precedence over locking up some dumb pol who stole the lunch money in a sting operation. MHO, anyway.

  7. Sorry about the multiples, folks, but I have been getting some “Moveable type” error messages lately. I only posted once. Honest!

  8. So much for Montclair’s rally cry of “diversity” and “open mindedness”. Two black guys frowning in a picture and people are calling for their head! Maybe it wasn’t them? What about the right to a fair trial? Only when its convenient is Montclair that “diverse” and “open minded” town.
    “They look nice.” Tom Traubert
    “Boy, those mug shots would be enough to prejudice any potential juror. They look guilty as hell.” MellonBrush2

  9. Are you at all familiar with tthis crime, NoCorzine? It was pretty heinous. A young man was shot in cold blood. And I would bet the farm that if there were any customers there at the time, they would have been shot as well.

  11. What’s so sad is the victim’s father owns a gas station across the street from where his son was killed. Imagine coming to work everyday and having to look at your child’s murder site.

  14. Yes, the two accused look like real plug-uglies. Most people do in their mug shots. (Nick Nolte after his DUI bust comes right to mind as one of the very worst.)
    But just because the two accused are black does not make this a matter of race. Even “Tom Traubert” was surely just kidding above. The simple truth is that criminals often seem to work almost overtime to fulfill our visual expectations re their rottenness. These feelings date back at least as far as Dickens. (There was even a well-meaning movement post-WWII to offer felons plastic surgery as a means of perhaps making their futures better, in fact.)
    If these two are found guilty, however, who save their cronies and (maybe, but only maybe) their family members will mourn them one bit? And if guilty, they will richly deserve the harshest punishment. Which of course was signed away by now-departed Governor Corzine, but probably still has its uses as an expression of the gravity with which society should view such crimes, along with the extremely doubtful possibility that two such heartless creeps could ever, upon the application of some mercy to their fates, prove anything other than habitual recidivists were they ever released.

  15. One can almost feel sorry for poor whatsup/theproblem, sitting at the screen at 1 in the morning, lonely, half in the bag and trying desperately to connect with someone. He tosses out provocative sentiments, and then calls on those he misses most by name.
    Yes, one can almost feel sorry.
    But not quite.

  16. Alas, whatsupwiththat, I am unable to make sense of your question. Should you be as well-educated and literate as your posts profess you are, you’d be well aware that Shakespeare’s “wherefore” does not, in fact, mean “where” but means “why”.
    And so I find myself asking “Why am I Talbot?” I’ll have to think that one over before I can reply…

  17. Maybe we should have them over for tea and read, Of Mice and Men, before their sorry asses are sent away, hopefully for life. Just my opinion. And there‘s no need to remind me that I am not as smart or educated as others.

  18. Wow, I have hit a nerve. My apologies, Richard T., my previous comment was directed at another poster who had specifically called out for a response from me. However, rather than continue to engage in snide remarks, let me just be clear.
    I applaud our dedicated law enforcement team for finding and prosecuting criminals who have committed such horrific crimes as the Verona Sunoco murder. I can’t imagine the pain and sorrow the victim’s family must feel, especially in light of Nellie’s comment. I agree that any individual has the right to hold whatever opinion they like of the death penalty, and I fully understand why people might feel it is completely called for in a case like this one, and they have every right to state their opinion in a public forum like this one.
    The only issue I have ever had, and the one I still do, is with promoting any kind of harmful, hurtful stereotype. When we reference a specific manner of killing (“string em up”) which directly refers to historical events where innocent individuals were killed (the lynchings of the early 1920s), and when that reference is specifically used with respect to a person similar to those individuals (black men), I think there are better choices of words to use. That’s all.
    I have no issue with your opinion. You hold yours and I hold mine. I’m so glad we live in a country where everyone is entitled to feel and express what they think.

  19. I’d love to join the discussion but I am compelled to immediately go practice making my best “mugshot” faces in the mirror – just in case I get arrested on my way to A&P. I’m going to use the guy on the right as an example. The other guy looks a little worried so he will probably be less safe in the group showers…

  22. Yes, if the shoe fits Why are you? Shakespeare administrivia indeed…. You must suck as a teacher.

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