George Burke

Three men from Maryland and Virginia and a fourth suspect form Barnegat face a raft of charges in connection with the early Friday shooting and robbery of a victim in Barnegat, and investigators have tied them to other thefts.

Ocean County's war on drugs yields 19 arrest, the confiscation of hundreds of bags of heroin, thousands of dollars in cash, weapons as well as heroin production and distribution equipment in four separate raids that culminated Monday. The warrant raids took place at three homes and a vehicle in Bayville, Barnegat, Lacey and Lakewood.