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Authorities continue to make inter-agency cooperative arrests of members of drug organizations throughout New Jersey. On this occasion, seven people were arrested on drug charge offenses in the City of Camden. The FBI, New Jersey State Police and the Camden Police Department...

When people are supposedly running a methamphetamine lab out of a two-bedroom apartment in a housing authority residence, it seems logical that they wouldn’t make loud disturbances or call the police to come and quell a family dispute. However, just recently in New Jersey,...

Drug sweeps are usually coordinated efforts between state, federal and local officials to arrest a collection of people who may be operating under an organizational network or a loosely concentric ring of related activities. In New Jersey and the rest of the country, when...

The juvenile system of justice is criticized for generally neglecting to provide sufficient programs for rehabilitation of wayward youth. In some well-known cases, judicial officers abused the system for monetary gain by wrongly jailing many juveniles. In New Jersey, however,...

The criminal justice system pertaining to juveniles is set up to protect the public from anti-social juvenile behavior. At the same time, it attempts to give the juvenile a chance to be tried and rehabilitated in an environment less harsh than the adult system. Although this...

It’s generally inappropriate for a prosecutor to comment on the merits of a criminal case or to give opinions regarding the accused’s guilt prior to a legal determination of guilt. Unfortunately, in New Jersey and other parts of the country, some prosecutors do not...

It’s difficult for the police to arrest someone suspected of a crime if he either lives in another state or has fled to one. Sometimes they know where the person is located, but the mechanism of enforcing an outstanding warrant can often be a cumbersome and drawn-out...

The expungement of a person’s adult criminal record can be a life-saver for one who has been crime-free for many years and is clearly rehabilitated. For a person seeking expungement that also has a juvenile record, there appears to be little societal benefit in using a...

A Social Security number can be a valuable commodity in an underworld that thrives on identity theft and fraudulent schemes. When Social Security numbers are purchased, made up or perhaps stolen from the dead, there can be an enormous potential for amassing huge recoveries. That...

According to the Parsippany Police Department Blotter, local restaurant, Baldwin Pizzeria, was burglarized sometime between 10:30pm on January 18, 2013 and 9:30am January 19, 2013. According to a pizzeria employee, the front door was unlocked, money was missing from the register,...