The Ocean County Prosecutors Office Narcotics Strike Force teams up with Mercer County Prosecutors to trace the dealers of heroin and fentanyl in both counties.
Two Ocean County residents are brought up on charges for their alleged roles in a heroin and fentanyl pill manufacturing facility in the northern part of the county that was shut down by the Prosecutors Office.
Two Monmouth County men are among 15-people arrested for their roles in a major drug ring that supplied significant amounts of heroin and cocaine in the Monmouth and Middlesex County areas.
A Neptune man who sold drugs to a Long Branch man who later overdosed has been indicted by a Monmouth County Grand Jury, according to Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.
The Bi-Partisan Heroin Task Force in Washington D.C., co-chaired by Jersey Shore Congressman Tom MacArthur, have introduced the Alert Act which give pharmacists a new tool to protect patients from opioid overuse.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joe Coronato will be in Washington this afternoon to testify at the House Global Health Subcommittee hearing to discuss the effects of fentanyl on the opioid crisis here in Ocean County.
Jersey Shore Congressman Tom MacArthur (NJ-3rd District) continues to tackle the opioid epidemic taking lives across the nation by announcing two grants to help local organizations combat the drug crisis.