There are nine people, eight from New Jersey, who have been arraigned and indicted for their roles in a massive drug and gun trafficking network that stretched down to South Carolina.
Suspects connected to a November 29 armed holdup in Lakewood find themselves facing a raft of new charges, and investigators are far from closing the probe.
A fugitive from Irvington and two Ocean County men are corralled as they leave a motel in Union County, to face armed robbery charges related to an early Tuesday holdup on a Lakewood street.
A Superior Court judge sentenced him to 9 years in prison. Now, three years later, an appellate panel ordered that conviction overturned and a new trial be set.