A taxicab driver was shot near the 500 block of Seventh Avenue, First Assistant Prosecutor Rick Incremona of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed today. Police arrived on the scene at approximately 8:21 a.m. today, Tuesday, Nov. 13, Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon said. The victim, a 37-year-old Neptune man, is in critical yet […]

The city is being outfitted with 18 new police surveillance cameras thanks to a grant from the Department of Justice, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said at the Oct. 3 council meeting. The police department received the technology grant worth $250,000 toward the end of 2011, Kinmon said. The grant program was administered by the state. […]

Most of the city’s violent crime rates are lower this year than they were last year, according to statistics released by the police department. Police Chief Mark Kinmon released the numbers at a chief’s advisory meeting held in city hall last week. “I certainly like what we’re seeing in this decrease in violent crime,” Kinmon […]

A man was arrested and charged with burglary this week after he allegedly removed an officer’s belongings from a police car at 7-Eleven. Michael Thomas McGuirl, 30, of Colonia, allegedly removed the officer’s material from his car while it was parked at the Main Street convenient story during the midnight shift on Aug. 11, Asbury […]