Ocean Township residents should be on the alert for scammers seeking bogus sewer bill payments via a fake payment reminder, according to a statement issued by the Township of Ocean Police Department. On Friday, a township resident reported that they received an email requesting payment for their sewer bill with an attached link, according to […]

A 28-year-old Long Branch woman was arrested for heroin possession after police observed her throwing a lit cigarette out the passenger window of a vehicle driving unsafely along Route 35, according to news release from the Ocean Township Police Department. Heather A. Throckmorton was charged Wednesday with possession of 23 bags of heroin, possession of […]

The Ocean Township Police Department has issued a rabid wildlife advisory after a fox captured in the attack of a dog tested positive for the rabies virus. The fox was sent to the state Department of Health for a rabies examination after it attacked and bit a dog on June 7 near West Lincoln Avenue […]

A major overhaul of the Sunset Avenue bridge will start in late January, and county and transportation officials are set to hold two information sessions to keep citizens informed the day before closures will take place, according to a county news release. The bridge [shown above], which links Asbury Park and Wanamassa, is more narrow […]

An Asbury Park woman and a Long Branch man were caught with crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription drugs in their possession Friday after their car was pulled over near the Asbury Park circle, according to Ocean Township police. Police observed a 2001 Mazda being “operated erratically” through the circle around 1:00 a.m. on Jan. 9 […]

Due to an uptick in reports of unlocked vehicles being entered, Ocean police have issued a public service announcement reminding drivers to lock their cars. Overnight Tuesday into Wednesday of this week, a few unlocked cars were entered in the Wanamassa section of town just off of Wickapecko Drive, according to a department release. The release […]

Ocean Township police officers used the life-saving drug Narcan on Saturday to revive a man they found unconscious in the bathroom of a Starbucks on Route 66 in the township. On Dec. 6 at 5:13 p.m. officers Brenden Bernhard, Raheem Carter and Timothy Kolodziej responded to an unresponsive, unconscious male located inside the men’s bathroom […]

The Ocean Township Police Department will host their first tweet-along of a police patrol shift on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday Nov. 26, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to a news release from the department. A tweet-along is a virtual ride-along that will communicate everything from the mundane to the serious over the […]

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 […]