May 12, 11

NEWS / Essex County Man Sentenced for Fencing a Luxury Automobile

TRENTON Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that an Essex County man has been sentenced for his role in trafficking what he believed was a stolen luxury automobile.

According to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor John Kennedy, Ikim Williams, 38, of Newark, was sentenced yesterday (May 10) by Superior Court Judge Michael Petrolle in Essex County to two years of probation, conditioned on 114 days in county jail, which Williams has already served. Judge Petrolle also ordered Williams to serve 100 hours of community service. The sentence was based on Williams’ March 30 guilty plea to an accusation which charged him with third-degree.

In pleading guilty, Williams admitted that on April 22, 2010, he trafficked in, or supervised the trafficking of, a 2010 BMW 650i, belonging to BMW of North America. Williams believed that the BMW, which was on loan to the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor as part of an undercover operation, had been stolen. Williams admitted that he arranged for Ibn Traynham to purchase the car for $3,000.

Traynham was sentenced on Jan. 12 to six years in state prison. The sentence is based on Traynham’s Sept. 22 guilty plea to an accusation which charged him with leading an auto theft trafficking network, a second-degree crime.

Detective Jarek Pyrzanowski and Deputy Attorney General Nicole D. Rizzolo were assigned to the investigation. Deputy Attorney General Rizzolo represented the state at the sentencing. Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Kennedy thanked the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department for its assistance in the investigation.

http://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases11/pr20110510a.html