Suspect in 2021 Lakewood Township shooting indicted for murder
TOMS RIVER, NJ – A suspect in a February 2021 shooting murder has been indicted. On January 12, 2022, Jahvontae Debose, 25, of Lakewood, was indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in…
Pedestrian struck and killed by NJ Transit bus hit and run in Lakewood
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on January 3, 2022, at approximately 9:45 p.m., Officers from the Lakewood Township Police Department responded to the entrance of the New Jersey Transit…
Drunk driver gets 11 years in prison for 2020 crash that left multiple people injured
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Joseph Battaglia of the North Brunswick Police Department announced today that a man has been sentenced for his role in causing…
Manchester drug dealers, manufacturers plead guilty, facing up to 8 years in prison
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ – Illicit drug manufacturers Jose Quintero-DeJesus, 37, of Brick Township, and Victor Mendoza-Gutierrez, 26, of Manchester, pled guilty to Maintaining a Controlled Dangerous Substance Production Facility before the Honorable…
Murder for hire at the Jersey Shore as investigation reveals son paid accomplice to kill father
BRICK TOWNSHIP, NJ – Before Mark Austin, 30, of Brick Township killed his father on September 7th of 2019, prosecutors now say he tried to hire somebody else to do the job.…
Leader of New Jersey criminal burglary ring indicted
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck today announced the indictment of a man who is charged with leading a criminal ring responsible for numerous residential burglaries across much of…
Here are the illegal guns New Jersey’s most dangerous criminals are carrying in our communities
TRENTON, NJ – The State of New Jersey and the Office of the Attorney General are touting this week’s gun buyback program which paid cash to criminals possessing illegal firearms raises a…
Toms River’s blue line painter indicted for terroristic threats against the judiciary
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Toms River residents are still wondering if the man who painted the blue line down Hooper Avenue in Downtown Toms River is a local hero or a zero.…
Lakewood dad charged for murder after infant died from shaken baby syndrome
LAKEWOOD, NJ – David Smith, 36, of Lakewood, was indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in Ocean County on the charge of murder in connection with the death of his infant daughter…
Victor Lopez pleads guilty to shooting, murdering Brandon Magwood
JERSEY CITY, NJ – On Tuesday, June 15, 2021, Victor Lopez, age 54, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree Aggravated Manslaughter in relation to the fatal shooting of…
Those weren’t fireworks on Lakewood’s MLK Boulevard, one victim shot in back
LAKEWOOD, NJ – Friday night was fireworks night at the Jersey Shore Blue Claws in Lakewood, but the noises you may have heard in the area of Martin Luther King Boulevard were…
Two people ejected during crash on Route 70 in Lakehurst
LAKEHURST, NJ – On 05/27/2021 at approximately 12:55 pm, the Lakehurst Police Department responded to the intersection of Route 70 and Route 547 for a report of a motor vehicle crash with…
Barricaded subject tried to kill police in Lakewood after tense stand off
LAKEWOOD, NJ – Saturday evening on April 17, 2021, at approximately 7:10 pm Officers Joseph Rusk and Matthew McAvoy responded to Lisa Robyn Circle after receiving a report that a male and…
Man attacked two Lakewood cops after mom called over ‘erratic’ behavior
LAKEWOOD, NJ – On Friday night, at about 7:10 pm. Lakewood police officers Joseph Rusk and Matthew McAvoy responded to Lisa Robyn Circle after receiving a report that a male and female…
Deadly Jackson fire caused by kerosene heater, deemed accidental
JACKSON, NJ – Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that the fatal structure fire that occurred on Lehigh Boulevard in Jackson Township on April 1, 2021 has been ruled accidental. On…
Update: 82-year-old woman killed in Jackson Township blaze
JACKSON, NJ – A fire broke out in a Jackson Township home Thursday night killing an elderly resident and forcing another occupant to jump out of a second floor window to escape…
Murphy condemns knucklehead’s planned maskless shopping event at Freehold Raceway Mall
FREEHOLD – We held off on covering this story which we learned about on Friday as to not attract attention, but the “New Jersey Patriot Party” planned to host a maskless shopping…
Little Egg Harbor man shot dead in Lakewood Coventry Square Neighborhood
LAKEWOOD, NJ – A 20-year-old man was shot dead in Lakewood Township Sunday night. According to law enforcement officials, at approximately 7:40 p.m., Lakewood Township Police were called to the area of…
State report shows Bob Hugin paid at least $74,000 for support, votes in state GOP chairman’s election that he lost
TOMS RIVER, NJ – People always wonder, how much is a politician’s vote worth? In the case of Ocean County Commissioner Virginia Haines, we finally have a price tag and that price…
Two Jackson Township Post Office Workers Pushing Drugs, Guns Captured in Statewide Operation
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – Two postal workers at the Jackson Township Post Office have been caught pushing drugs were arrested by police today. Police also seized a large cache of illegal firearms,…