bail reform

A Toms River man has plead guilty to two separate crimes he was previously charged with committing in neighboring Lakewood Township.

Ocean Township Police have announced the arrest of four Camden residents who took the drive north and stole several catalytic converters.

A good defense on your part can help win a championship -- so to speak -- in keeping social engineers and cyber and financial criminals away from your life.

The ongoing flaws of New Jersey's bail reform law revisions has contributed, at least in part, to the rising amount of car thefts and vehicle burglaries all over the state including in Monmouth County.

The administrative director of the New Jersey judiciary says a bill pending in the Legislature should scale back the changes planned for gun defendants.

With gun violence is spiking, an Assembly committee passes a bill that would lead to more people accused of gun crimes detained until their trial.

Advocates are pushing for passage of a newly proposed law that would make pretrial detention the default process for people who commit crimes while in possession of a firearm, and those who are charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm.

The New Jersey State Police Opioid Enforcement Task Force and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations have arrested three men who were found with 15-pounds of fentanyl as they shut down an opioid mill based that impacted the entire state.

Life is about earning a second chance when you've done wrong, but is there a limit to how many second chances you get? In the Final Part of our Series on Jail Life, a repeat drug offender at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution insists this time is for real.

Does bail reform help or hurt more people, particularly drug offenders? On Day Four of our series about Jail Life at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, Sheriff Shaun Golden explains how bail reform has thrown a wrench in the rehab process.