Teen driver, his mom get jail time for 100+ mph crash that killed N.J. high schooler

A teenager charged with killing his 15-year-old passenger in a high-speed crash has been sentenced to four years in a youth correctional facility. His mother, who lent her son her car the night of the crash even though he didn’t have a license, was sentenced to five years in prison. Dane T. Pierce, now 19, and his mother, Tisha Gargon, 53, both of Pittsgrove, were sentenced Thursday in Salem County court after pleading guilty to charges in March. Pierce was indicted in 2023 on first-degree aggravated manslaughter and second-degree reckless vehicular homicide charges in the March 2022 crash in Pittsgrove...