As heroin use keeps increasing in New Jersey, gang activity continues to flourish in the cities, the suburbs and even in rural areas, but law enforcement officials are fighting back.
A recent drug sweep in Monmouth County took numerous guns off the streets of Asbury Park, but the fight continues to remove illegal weapons from criminals.
There's a new form of motorcycle gang popping up across the nation. It's one that can gather at the drop of a social media post; it's one that isn't focused sharply on violence; it's one that hopes to garner fame over the Internet.
Law enforcement agents in New Jersey continue to battle with gang violence as 14 suspected members from the international MS-13 gang are arrested in Plainfield.
Three former leaders of a New Jersey branch of the violent international street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha” (aka MS-13), as well as eleven alleged members, are charged with racketeering and murder as part of a federal indictment.
Four members of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the Bloods street gang have pleaded guilty to racketeering and admit they took part in a 2006 murder in South Jersey. They were charged in ‘Operation Nine Connect,’ a joint investigation by the New Jersey State Police and the Division of Criminal Justice.
The leader of a northern New Jersey street gang has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for his involvement in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.