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There has been a string of robberies throughout Union County in recent weeks. In the latest incident, two robbers hit service stations in Hillside and Union Township in a span of just six hours. In both recent attacks, the robbers wore hooded sweatshirts, one black and the other red or pink and came up behind […]
Jersey City Police arrested four suspects on Wednesday for allegedly buying and selling heroin in an area of Jersey City known to police as a “high drug and violent crime area,” according to a report. Early Wednesday morning around 9 a.m. police officers in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Forrest Street witnessed an alleged drug transaction […]
Recently our law firm represented a client who had been indicted for a crime of credit card fraud in Union County Superior Court. The prosecutor’s office alleged that our client had used a stolen credit card to try and purchase merchandise from the Target store in Union Township. At the time, the store clerk contacted the […]
According to report on nj.com, twenty-one individuals were arrested for conspiracy and distribution of heroin and cocaine as a part of a large-scale Monmouth and Ocean County distribution ring, representing a major victory for cross-departmental municipal, state, and federal authorities. Three members of the ring are still at large in a group that consists of individuals […]
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 […]
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 […]
Heroin use continues to rise in New Jersey, and officials are particularly taking notice as the “heroin epidemic” hits our wealthier communities and affects upper-middle class families. In the past, residents in these communities, such as New Providence, hoped their children and families were safe from the epidemic that has been plaguing New Jersey but […]
The protective measures set forth in the Domestic Violence Act in New Jersey are considered some of the foremost in the country. In 1991, the Legislature passed the Domestic Violence Act, based upon numerous studies and findings that domestic violence is a serious crime against society in New Jersey. The state legislature came to the […]
Under N.J.S.A. 2C:25-21(d), the Domestic Violence Act authorizes the police to confiscate the weapons from the defendant if they have reason to believe that domestic violence had taken place. When the police arrive at the scene of a domestic violence complaint they may search the house without a warrant and seize whatever weapons inside as long as […]
New Jersey takes domestic violence cases very seriously and thus, the state has set up special rules for defendants facing criminal charges involving domestic violence. For instance, violations of domestic violence restraining orders are reviewed with the same severity as serious violent indictable offenses. Moreover, if a defendant has been arrested and charged with an indictable domestic violence […]