Man Arrested for Robbing Same Toms River Store Twice in Fifteen Years
According to an oceancountysignal.com report, a man robbed a Toms River Stride Rite on Hooper Avenue on March 22, just one day after being released from prison for robbing the exact same store fifteen years earlier. Officers have determined that the suspect who robbed the store of $389.00 from its cash register and the cell phones its two present employees after they refused his demands to give him their car keys and to go to the back of his store. Officer responding to the scene found the ...
Toms River Heroin Bust Yields CDS, Paraphernalia, and $47K
An nj.com story recently reported the arrest of a Lakewood man at the Ramada Inn on Route 9 in Toms River hotel. Officers responded to a disturbance in which the 23-year-old suspect threatened hotel employees who tried to kick him out. According to witnesses, the man was in a visibly intoxicated state during the events leading up to the arrest. A search incident to arrest yielded over $47,000 in cash, 170 wax folds of heroin, 11 hypodermic needles, and three glass pipes. As a result of the ...
Illegal Drug Overdose Leads to Arrest of Brick Township Dealer
Ocean County Man Arrested for the December Drug Overdose Death of His Customer
According to the Ocean County Signal, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato, the Brick Township Chief of Police and the Point Pleasant Boro Police Chief announced the arrest of a twenty-two year-old defendant on strict liability drug charges in connection with the December 2013 drug induced death of a twenty-five year-old. Citing the 112 Ocean County deaths attributable to drug overdose in 2013, Coronato ...
Gun and Heroin Seized in Bricktown Bust
Father and Son Nabbed by Brick Police for Narcotics
Brick Patch has recently reported that a father and son duo were arrested on a multitude of charges last week in a Brick Township home following a month long investigation by Brick Township Police and the Ocean County Drug Enforcement Unit who had been previously alerted to the distribution of heroin out of the residence. The search was executed by the aforementioned agencies with the assistance of the Special Emergency Response ...
Toms River Purse-Snatching Suspect Arrested
Video Surveillance and Social Media Lead to Arrest of Suspect
According to NJ.com, an arrest has been made in connection with the theft of a purse from a 65-year-old shopper at Shop Rite. The suspected purse-snatcher is under suspicion of various similar occurrences in supermarkets throughout the area.
An in-store security camera viewed the suspect when she took the purse out of a shopping cart while its owner was busy shopping. The video has since circulated over the Internet, and with ...