The Asbury Park Police Department and the New Jersey State Police are asking the public for help finding a local woman who went missing on Feb. 2. The 79-year-old Annie Cody was last seen on Asbury Avenue, officials said in a press release. She is described as a black female, with short black hair with […]

Data from the Asbury Park Police Department shows gun crimes and homicides in the city have decreased. From the date new initiatives were put into action on May 15 through the period of Nov. 30, which is the last day the department has confirmed numbers available, the city has seen a decrease in homicides, total […]

Eight chaplains were sworn in to assist the Asbury Park Police Department at a ceremony held during the Aug. 20 Asbury Park City Council meeting. They are Brian Major, Greg Hopson, Mark White, Rabbi Ilan Schanow, Audley Largie, Farah Major and Lyddale Akins. The chaplaincy program got its start through the Asbury Park Community Development Initiative [CDI] […]

An early morning automobile accident on Memorial Drive took the life of a 23 year old city man, while the four passengers in the vehicles escaped unharmed. At 12:53 a.m., Jeffrey Voltaire was driving a 2003 Jeep Cherokee south on Memorial Drive when he lost control of the vehicle and if flipped over at the […]

A twenty five year old Farmingdale man was arrested and charged on Wednesday with first degree Murder in connection with a daylight shooting on Washington Avenue in April, according to a news release from Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Chrisopher J. Gramiccioni. Jacquil Jones is also charged with second degree Possession of a Weapon for an […]

Detective Anthony Salerno will be promoted to Deputy Chief at a swearing-in ceremony Thursday, May 1 in Asbury Park City Council chambers. Salerno [shown above] has been with the department for 26 years. “He’s the right person the for job,” said Chief Mark Kinmon. “He’s got a lot of history in the city — he’s an […]

A twenty one year old Neptune City man has been arrested in connection with a shooting outside the Cameo Bar on Main Street in 2012, in which two men in a parked car sustained multiple gunshot wounds, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Tyrice L. Berry is charged with two […]

Gregory Hopson, Jr.,, 25, pled guilty Tuesday to first degree aggravated manslaughter in connection with the October 11, 2011 shooting death of Asbury resident RyeKill Agostini, 30, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Hopson also pled guilty to an unrelated third degree theft charge concerning an unrelated incident that occurred […]

A memorial service for Asbury Park Realtor Jay Bernstein has been scheduled for Wednesday, December 4 at 6 p.m. at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel on Ocean Avenue. Bernstein, an agent at the John C. Conover Agency, fell to his death on Sunday from the ninth floor of the Santander condominium building on Deal Lake Drive. […]

Stating that Asbury Park is “at a precipice,” Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni wants the city council to act quickly to replace retiring Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon. Gramaccioni’s made the comments in an email obtained by the Sun. The email was sent on Thursday to all five council members. “No organization can […]