The New Jersey Attorney General's complaint alleged that Dr. Moishe Starkman indiscriminately prescribed thousands of pills without diagnosing patients or keeping records.
An alleged opiate painkiller ring that state investigators say peddled tens of thousands of Oxycodone and Xanax pills in Atlantic County is traced to an Essex County doctor, and 17 South Jersey arrestees.
A passenger in a car zips away during a traffic violation stop in Red Bank -clutching a bag containing 500 decks of heroin and seven large bags of marijuana, according to borough police.
A Manchester cop is attacked by a pit bull while chasing a suspected heroin dealer, and a Lakewood woman and an East Orange man are charged with opiate possession, in two episodes on the same day in the township.
A Howell Township 20-year-old is held on $100,000 bail after being found with a trove of marijuana, pills, packaging items and cash, according to township police.
A month-long probe of illicit prescription pill flow in Toms River leads police to a hefty heap of them. And police say that a Beachwood man found with some heroin two weeks ago was found with a lot more three days later.
Two drug suspects paid a combined $435,000 full bail for the privilege of waiting on the outside for court proceedings, following a search and arrests in Neptune Township.