An Asbury Park and a Neptune resident were arrested after walking out of a Target store with a full shopping cart of stolen merchandise they unloaded into a car in the parking lot before they went back in to the store to fill it again. Ocean Police responded to the Target Greatland store in reference […]

Three new probationary police officers have joined The Township of Ocean Police Department, the department announced today. Officers Christopher Stenger, Brenden Bernhard and Karen Noel were sworn into service at the Nov. 6 council meeting. Stenger had previously served as a police officer with the Spotwood Police Department and is a graduate of the Monmouth County […]

The Ocean Township Police Department will enforce a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting Oct. 29 and ending Nov. 2, township authorities announced this week. During the hours the curfew is in effect, no one under the age of 18 will be permitted on the streets unless they are accompanied by a parent or […]

Two Asbury Park residents and a Neptune resident were arrested after they were found in an Ocean Township apartment with burglary tools and weapons in their possession. On Wednesday, Oct. 1 at approximately 12:39 a.m. township police responded to a call from a woman at an address on Aldrin Road who said she heard a […]

A Long Branch resident who nearly hit a police car while driving near the Asbury Park traffic circle was charged with weapons possession after police say they found a machete in his car. Vincent K. Johnston-Haughton, 21, was found with a “machete type knife” next to the center console of the car he was driving after he failed […]

The Township of Ocean Police Department is asking the public’s help in locating a missing person. On July 7, 2014 Nicholas Johnson was reported missing from the Gateway Treatment Center located on Center Street in Ocean Township, according to a news release from township police. Nicholas is a 26-year-old male who stands 6’05” tall, weighs […]

Ocean Township police are on a hunt for a man who allegedly attempted to lure two juveniles boys into a van in the Oakhurst section of the township late last week. At approximately 8:19 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, police responded to an area near the intersection of West Park Avenue and Whalepond Road after being […]

Ocean Township police seized 47 firearms from a Sunset Avenue home after a tenant of the location allegedly accosted an individual hired by the property owner to work there, authorities said Monday. On Friday, August 15 at 6:50 p.m., police responded to a Sunset Avenue property just east of Rt. 35 after they received a call […]

A 17-year-old city resident has been accused of robbing two other juveniles while they were leaving a festival in Ocean Township Wednesday. On August 7., two juveniles reported they had been robbed of their cash at gunpoint the night before while leaving Joe Palaia Park near Deal Test Site and Whalepond Road, according to a release […]

The Monmouth County DWI Task force will conduct a checkpoint to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs on Friday, August 1, according to Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. The checkpoint will run from 11 p.m. Friday through 3 a.m. Saturday on Route 35. Task force members and officers from the Ocean Township Police Department […]