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A recent New Jersey traffic stop on Route 23 North occurred in Butler on Saturday afternoon, April 14. It resulted in two men and a woman being jailed after law enforcement reportedly found more than expected. The patrol officer arrested the three and allegedly seized about 90...

North Bergen Town Prosecutor Charged with Money Laundering Scheme A municipal prosecutor, Marcanton Macri, was charged with participating in a scheme to assist drug traffickers in their operation to transport marijuana into New Jersey and New York from California. As part of...

A 52-year-old man from Dover, New Jersey, was recently arrested and charged with the possession of an allegedly stolen rile. This rifle is suspected to be the same weapon that was purportedly stolen and supposedly fired twice by four juveniles earlier in the week. A...

New Jersey police in Hackettstown recently responded to a phone call regarding the possibility of drug activity in Victoria Village. Police pulled a car over on March 25 about 5 p.m. The 17-year-old driver and a 16-year-old passenger both now face drug charges of marijuana...

The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a bill to create a mandatory, two-county pilot drug court program. The bill pales in comparison to Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal last month which requested of the NJ Legislature that it expand the mandatory...

Just after midnight on Mar. 18, someone made a call to 911 about a supposed fight at the Mohawk House Restaurant in Sparta, New Jersey. The parties involved had apparently been separated before on-duty police officers arrived on the scene. One of the individuals involved was a...

DWI Field Tests and Observation DWI: No Breathalyzer DWI conviction stands based only upon the Observations of the police officers. Many are tempted to forget that the police do not have to have a per se breathalyzer violation (blood alcohol content) to charge or convict a person...

NJ Appellate Division permits the police to order DWI field tests on minimal evidence The Appellate Division, an intermediate appellate court in New Jersey, confronted the standard of suspicion, or evidence of unlawful activity, which justifies a police officer in ordering a...

U.S. Supreme Court confronts the limits of the “Confrontation Clause” in the United States’ Constitution The Supreme Court of the United States tackled the thorny issue of whether a criminal defendant’s ‘right to confront his or her accuser’...

A New Jersey man has been charged with a crime after he killed a bear in his yard. The man claimed he only killed the bear because he believed it was about to attack one of his friends and his dog. He has since been charged with a crime after police found the bear’s body....