A Willingboro woman was arrested yesterday after allegedly “pistol-whipping” an Asbury Park woman earlier this month, Asbury Park Police Detective Captain Anthony Salerno has said. Lashawn Mayfield, 39, of Willingboro, engaged in verbal conflicts with a 41-year-old Asbury Park woman over several days earlier this month, Salerno said. On March 8, the dispute culminated in […]

A man was shot in Neptune last night, several blocks from Asbury Park’s western border. The Neptune Township police responded to the corner of Monroe Avenue and George Street after receiving multiple 9-1-1 calls at 8:58 p.m. on March 24, said Charles Webster, public information officer for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Police found a 22-year-old male […]

A city man has been indicted for the 2011 murder of RyeKill Agostini, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced in a press release yesterday. The indictment handed up by a Monmouth County Grand Jury charges Gregory Hopson Jr., 25, with “first-degree murder, second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, second-degree unlawful […]

More than 1,500 guns were collected at gun buybacks in Asbury Park and Keansburg churches last weekend, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above at podium] has announced. The firearms collected from Asbury Park comprise almost half of the 1,581 brought in through the buybacks, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said today. “This buyback was another […]

A Long Branch man has been charged with murder in the September 2012 death of Asbury Park native Jerome Wright. Wright, 30, was shot outside the Atkins Avenue Deli, on Atkins Avenue across the street from the Boston Way Village, on Sept. 1, 2012. This was the first fatal shooting of that year. Ronald Daniels, […]

An undercover officer was hit with a handgun by an Asbury Park teenager on Friday night, according to Paul Loriquet, spokesman for the state attorney general’s office. The incident occurred around 6:35 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, Loriquet said. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force was conducting an undercover investigation in which an […]

In an effort to curb gun violence, the state Attorney General’s office and local law enforcement are joining to hold gun buybacks in the city in early March. Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above, at podium] announced the program at a press conference in the city this morning. “Like all of you here today, […]

The city’s overall violent crime rate dropped to its lowest point in 10 years in 2012, although the rate of confirmed shootings was twice as high as it had been two years ago. Police Chief Mark Kinmon [pictured above, right, at a prior council meeting] shared these statistics and more in his annual public safety […]

A city man was arrested late Sunday night when police found a firearm in his car, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said. At about 11 p.m., three police officers — Khamil Warraich, Kevin Michael and Greg Parisi — were on foot patrol in the Vita Gardens [pictured above] and Stephen Manor housing complexes, Kinmon said. The […]

The relatives of Dericke Williams, who was fatally shot on Sept. 21, attended last night’s council meeting and implored local parents and city officials to find a way to stop gun violence. Williams was the third young man to fall victim to shooting homicide in the month of September. No arrests have been made in […]