Narcotics Anonymous Sponsee Killed by Her 12 Step NA Sponsor in Robbery Plot

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Police: Trenton woman was killed by her Narcotics Anonymous sponsor in robbery plot

By Steven Miller/The Times of Trenton
on June 16, 2014 at 8:59 PM, updated June 17, 2014 

TABERNACLE — Eight months after a Trenton woman’s bullet-ridden corpse was discovered in woods in Tabernacle, police have named the victim’s Narcotics Anonymous sponsor as a suspect in her death.

Loraine Hawkins, 47, of Trenton, is the second suspect charged in the death of 47-year-old city resident Lisa Armstrong, State Police said Monday.

Police previously arrested Terrance Patterson, 37, of Trenton, four days after the Oct. 8 discovery of Armstrong’s body in the woods along Route 206. Armstrong died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, police said.

The investigation suggested Patterson had a co-conspirator and that they also robbed Armstrong. State Police arrested Hawkins Friday at her Trenton home, charging her with felony murder, robbery and kidnapping.

She is being held at the Burlington County Jail in lieu of $500,000 full-cash bail.

 http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/06/trenton_woman_charged_in_shooting_death_of_her_narcotics_anonymous_sponsee.html

11 thoughts on “Narcotics Anonymous Sponsee Killed by Her 12 Step NA Sponsor in Robbery Plot

  1. I have been reading the comments that fwere left here about AA/NA and if you have not been through the pain and sickness of active addiction I would not comment. What I know from being apart of the NA Fellowship for over 17 years in the GNA, I can tell you that l didn’t come into to recovery because I had a refligious issue I had a spiritual issue..It was in the toliet; I am so very sorry that this sick person did what she did..should she be punished yes…was it AA/NA that failed NO she failed the program..the program works..some people just will never change their Negative Behavior

  2. if nothing changes nothing changes. Everybody blames AA/NA for other peoples shortcomings, it’s not the program, it’s the people, the unwillings to stop using, not so much the drink or drug in this case, but the behavior. behavior never lies.

  3. Are you kidding me??? ‘it had everything to do with a person that had not surrendered to the will of God’. Unbelievable. AA is NOT a place you get sober, it is a place where you get turned into a religious fanatic. How can you say this? Seriously?!

  4. And another one. NA members want censorship to protect the reputation of the organization- NOT the person. There is a difference.

  5. I see there are a lot of people commenting after the original article who are annoyed that NA has been mentioned. The usual wall of denial about the type of people you can end up with in an unregulated recovery group.

    • I just signed up over there to comment. They is lots of denial going on over in the comment section. This is a horrible story but a great example of how dangerous the rooms of AA can be. Poor woman just riddled with bullets.

      • I read the comments, and it brings me back to the days when I was part of AA and believed all AA members were saints. ‘Were Sober’ used to be code for – we are ALL good people now who are incapable of hurting another person – because we belong to AA. What a bunch of hooey!

        • get a meeting change your life, your out look may change as well. when people don’t get what they want they always blame other people. in this case a program that has changed peoples lives.

      • this crime had nothing to do with the rooms, it had everything to do with a person that had not surrendered to the will of God, someone who had an idea, and it just did not work. the person or persons that is slandering her name, is not only slandering her name but is associating it with a program that has helped countless others. the program did not commit this crime, it was an individual with a gun, if the gun laws were stricker she probalby would not heav been abel to purchase the gun nor her partner.

        • Are you kidding me??? ‘it had everything to do with a person that had not surrendered to the will of God’. Unbelievable. AA is NOT a place you get sober, it is a place where you get turned into a religious fanatic. How can you say this? Seriously?!

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