Drugs

A now former Long Branch police officer arrested and charged back in May for allegedly running a meth lab at his home has now plead guilty.

Drug reforms are on the agenda in the lame-duck legislative session, including a plan to allow the state to approve harm reduction programs that towns resist.

Jackson Police have issued a statement announcing that a township resident has been charged for his roles in a recent drug deal and remains on the run.

Little Egg Harbor Police have announced that they've arrested five area residents which comes at the end of a recent drug investigation.

In the span of five-days time, the Brick Police Street Crimes Unit placed eight people under arrest as they investigated drug and shoplifting related incidents.

A Freehold couple is heading to prison for their roles in supplying members of the Bloods criminal street gang on the Virginia Peninsula with undisclosed amounts of cocaine.

"Operation Checkmate" has run its course and as a result of a multi-jurisdictional investigation 24 people, 21 of whom live in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, have been arrested for their alleged roles in a cocaine distribution ring.

The Manchester resident who was arrested and subsequently charged in August for causing the fatal overdose of a man has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Ocean County.

A number of residents living in the Holiday City West section of Berkeley Township grew tired and concerned over the amount of pedestrian and vehicle traffic to a certain part of their neighborhood.

A Manchester resident has been charged with supplying a lethal concoction of heroin and fentanyl to another township resident back in August.