Crime

A Red Bank man has been charged in connection with a shots-fired investigation in Rumson on Monday afternoon, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday

A Brooklyn man has been convicted in a 2023 shooting that injured a man and woman in Freehold Borough.

FREEHOLD – A Neptune Township Police Department Officer has been charged for repeatedly lying about his criminal history and termination from a prior job in law enforcement while seeking and obtaining police employment in New Jersey, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced Friday.

According to NJ.com, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled that graduates of the state’s Recovery Court program can fully erase both criminal and juvenile records — even for serious offenses that would normally block expungement.

The former police chief of Englishtown, Peter S. Cooke, has entered New Jersey’s pretrial intervention program after pleading guilty to third-degree computer criminal activity.

Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on July 29, 2025, Simcha Feldman, 34, of Lakewood, was charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child in connection with an incident that occurred on Lakewood on July 29, 2025.

Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on July 27, 2025, Raul Luna-Perez, 43, of Red Bank, was charged with two counts of Vehicular Homicide and Assault by Auto in connection with a motor vehicle crash that occurred in Lakewood on July 26, 2025.

Ocean County Prosecutor announced that on July 20, 22 year-old Cagla Nemutlu, of Lacey Township, was charged with Knowingly Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Crash Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury relative to an incident that occurred in Toms River the day before.

On July 18, 2025, Chief of Police R. Craig Weber announced that officers of the Middletown Twp. Police arrested a woman following the investigation of a report of a traffic complaint.

FREEHOLD – A Matawan woman has admitted to leaving the scene of a 2024 accident that a left a pedestrian deceased, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Tuesday.