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BOUND BROOK – Officer Jesse Schwartz has been honored for his great service in taking most drivers driving under the influence into custody in Somerset County. In a news release, borough police Capt. Kevin Rivenbark stated that Officer Jesse Schwartz was listed as the 2015 Mothers Against Drunk Driving Top Gun for Somerset County during...

HAZLETON – 45-year-old William F. McCarthy III, a police officer from New Jersey, has been taken into custody and sent to the Luzerne County jail as he got behind the wheel intoxicated and crashed into multiple vehicles in Hazleton. Multiple witnesses called the police and reported that an erratic driver was striking parked vehicles throughout...

TRENTON – It is shown by the newest crime count report released by state law enforcement that the crime rate in New Jersey is reducing. In 2014, the number of crimes that were reported was 178,066 and all of them are mentioned in the most recent Uniform Crime Report. It is found by the report...

TRENTON – Official statistics released on Friday showed that the rate of violent crime reduced 10 percent in New Jersey in one year, from 2013 to 2014. The rate of violent crimes was 25,452 in the year 2013 which reduced to 23,004 in the year 2014, as shown by the state’s Uniform Crime Report. The...

WASHINGTON – According to a study carried out by the nation’s largest automobile club, six states that allow marijuana are using legal tests that have no scientific basis. The club carrying out the study also called for scrapping those laws. The study, which was commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation, said that it’s not possible to...

CAMDEN, N.J. – 21-year-old Kevin Fentress, who was wanted by the police for a deadly shooting that happened at a New Jersey motel, has been taken into custody in Georgia. Fentress was charged for the murder of a 17-year-old Camden boy. A 20-year-old Willingboro man was injured in the shooting in Cherry Hill that happened...

36-year-old Juan Martinez of Passaic, New Jersey, was arrested for allegedly driving drunk in Orange County. Martinez was arrested by the New York State Police after they stopped to render aid to a possible disabled vehicle on I-87. Police determined that the driver was intoxicated and he was taken to the Montgomery barracks for processing....

According to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, a New Jersey state police lab technician mishandled at least 11 other cases. Defense attorneys are being notified about the situation. The lab technician, Kamal Shah, was recently removed from work after it was found that he was faking a drug test result and mishandled at least 11...

TRENTON – The felony gun charge against 46-year-old Raymond Hughes was dismissed on Monday by the Gloucester County Prosecutor, Sean Dalton. According to the prosecutor, the cops came to know that the guard had a gun in his motor vehicle because he was the victim of a DUI accident. He had a Pennsylvania carry permit,...