An alleged Memorial Day weekend late-night clash on the Seaside Heights boardwalk is scuttled quickly by borough police, who managed to retrieve some belongings that tied some of the combatants to North Jersey.
A Toms River woman convicted of using her job as a loan officer in Forked River as the gateway for a 15-million-dollar mortgage scam draws a three-and-a-half-year prison term.
Robert Mucha - who spent part of his career as a band and bugle corps instructor in Lakewood - can expect to log 10 years in prison for downloading child pornography and for luring a teenage boy to Pennsylvania for sex.
A Newton 56-year-old arrested in July for kiddie porn later admitted luring a 15-year-old to Pennsylvania for sex and having erotic fantasies about child cannibalism, say federal investigators. Now they want to know if Robert Mucha's alleged victims include any children in Lakewood, where he spent time as a drum and bugle corps instructor several years ago.