A three-month narcotics investigation in southern Ocean County leads to arrests of three suspects from Barnegat and LIttle Egg Harbor on drug and weapons charges.
A Marlton psychiatrist temporarily surrenders his license, while facing allegations that he prescribed tens of thousands of doses of opiates without required quarterly reviews of patient usage.
A trove of prescription meds are uncovered in a Bayville house, and a man suspected of pushing at least 500 of them on the streets each week faces a raft of charges.
Four southern Ocean County people await court appearances on drug charges, following a Friday-afternoon search of a car that prompted Lacey Township police to search a house, where they said they found unauthorized opiates.
A Manchester cop is attacked by a pit bull while chasing a suspected heroin dealer, and a Lakewood woman and an East Orange man are charged with opiate possession, in two episodes on the same day in the township.
The Middletown doctor who admitted running a prescription painkiller distribution network with his office manager heads to prison for as many as six years.
The Middletown pain relief specialist, whose license was suspended during a year-long investigation into an illegal opiate distribution ring, admitted writing forging Oxycodone prescriptions on pads created for another doctor while on suspension.
A Marlboro 44-year-old who admitted dealing thousands of oxycodone tablets with the complicity of a doctor who wrote bogus presciptions is handed a seven-year term in a state prison.