LANOKA HARBOR MAN ARRESTED IN SEXUAL ASSAULT
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Lacey Township Police Det. Bob Surtees and Ocean County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit Det. Melissa Matthews arrested and charged Michael A. Taynor, 27, of Lanoka Harbor,...
View ArticleGREAT NEWS FROM THE G.R.E.A.T . PROGRAM (GANG RESISTANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING)
OCPO Sgt. Renee Nauyoks and Det. Taryn Schwartz today graduated another G.R.E.A.T. program class. This time Washington Street Elementary School 5th graders made the grade and are pictured proudly...
View ArticleJACKSON POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED FOR HINDERING APPREHENSION IN JACKSON MURDER...
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced the arrest today of Eric Prosniewski, 45, of Bluebell Drive in Jackson. Prosniewski is charged with two counts of Hindering Apprehension, second...
View ArticleGUILTY PLEA IN LURING CASE
Mark Allan, 56, of Tuckerton, NJ, entered a guilty plea yesterday (5/19) before Judge Wendel E. Daniels to second degree Luring. His sentencing is tentatively scheduled for August 14, 2015. The case...
View ArticleOFFICE OF THE OCEAN COUNTY PROSECUTOR CLAIMS PROMINENT NEW JERSEY WOMEN IN...
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato today announced that Ocean County Prosecutor Office Executive Assistant Prosecutor Deborah Hanlon-Schron has been selected by New Jersey Women in Law...
View ArticleRECENT AREA ARREST ACTIVITY NOTE – BOTH ARRESTS ARE UNRELATED
On 5/21/15, Ocean County Prosecutor Det. Anthony Paciulli and Toms River Police Det. Jennifer Grob arrested GAVIN ALEXANDER, 40, of Wall, NJ, charging him with Aggravated Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault...
View ArticleMOP UP ARRESTS IN OPERATIONS “BROKEN RULE” AND “SIN CITY”
On April 28, 2015, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced the culmination of two cooperative multi-jurisdictional narcotics investigations conducted by the Prosecutor’s Special Operations...
View ArticleDASHCAM VIDEO HELPS IDENTIFY BLATANT VIOLATOR
The attached video captured by a motorist’s dashcam on County Line Road early today, and published by the Lakewood Scoop, has led to a Lakewood man being charged with four motor vehicle violations. We...
View ArticlePROSECUTOR’S SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP AND OCEAN TOWNSHIP POLICE TEAM UP IN...
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced today the culmination of an investigation into drug activity in the Southern Ocean County area. Detectives from the Prosecutor’s Special Operations...
View ArticleGUILTY PLEA IN SOUTH TOMS RIVER FATAL HIT & RUN
Joseph Marsh, 28, of Toms River entered a guilty plea on 6-1-15 before Judge Wendel E. Daniels in the December 2013 South Toms River fatal pedestrian Hit & Run. Marsh entered a guilty plea to...
View ArticleDEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
Jason Wolek, 39, of Jackson Township, NJ, entered a guilty plea yesterday (6/1) to Second Degree Vehicular Homicide involving the death of off duty Watchung Police Officer Christopher L. Hoffman. The...
View ArticleGUILTY PLEA IN BERKELEY TOWNSHIP SEXUAL ASSAULT
On June 2, 2015, Aaron Wittevrongel, 20, of Bayville, NJ, entered a guilty plea before Judge Wendel E. Daniels to a charge of Second Degree Sexual Assault. The case stems from a March 29, 2014...
View ArticleOCPO HIgh-Tech Crime Unit & Friends Tracked Down Bomb Threat Suspect
On May 30, 2015 at 7:42 pm the Toms River Police Department received a call from the Ocean County Mall that they had received a bomb threat. The caller stated “There’s a bomb” and hung up the phone....
View ArticleOCPO HIgh-Tech Crime Unit & Friends Tracked Down Bomb Threat Suspect
On May 30, 2015 at 7:42 pm the Toms River Police Department received a call from the Ocean County Mall that they had received a bomb threat. The caller stated “There’s a bomb” and hung up the phone....
View ArticleGUILTY PLEA IN LURING CASE
Mark Allan, 56, of Tuckerton, NJ, entered a guilty plea yesterday (5/19) before Judge Wendel E. Daniels to second degree Luring. His sentencing is tentatively scheduled for August 14, 2015. The case...
View ArticleMANCHESTER MRI OFFICE HAZMAT INCIDENT
On Friday, June 5, 2015 at approximately 0940 hours, a 911 call was placed to the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department for a chemical explosion inside Shore Imaging located at 1100 W Route 70 in...
View ArticleSTRIDE RITE ROBBER SENTENCED
Christopher Miller, 41, was sentenced today before Judge James M. Blaney, J.S.C. for the charge of Second Degree Robbery to 16 years in New Jersey State Prison under the No Early Release Act,...
View ArticleBAYVILLE MAN DIES IN SOUTH TOMS RIVER SHOOTING
On June 8, 2015 at 2255 hours, Toms River Police Department responded to Community Medical Center for a report of a male victim with a gunshot wound. The victim, Wille Z. Love 3rd, 27, of Bayville, was...
View ArticleLAKEWOOD MAN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT
On June 11, 2015, Lakewood Police Det. Pete Aakjer and Ocean County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit Det. Melissa Matthews arrested and charged Belsay Guzman Hernandez, 53, of Lakewood with two (2)...
View ArticleARREST IN SOUTH TOMS RIVER HOMICIDE
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and South Toms River Borough Police Chief Andrew Izatt today announced the arrest of Marcus Samuels, 26, of Bayville, NJ. Samuels is charged with murder, one...
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