The Asbury Park Police Department will swear in four new officers next week. Three of the city’s Class II Special Law Enforcement Officers, Jayvon Britt, Jonathan DiOrio and Lemar Whittaker, will be sworn in along side Officer Ricky Kirchgessner, who previously served the city in a class II position before he transferred to Camden County in […]

A house on the 1400 block of Mattison Avenue was hit by gunfire last night, according to Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon. Shortly after 8 p.m. one of the residents of the home called 9-1-1- to report the house had been hit three times, Kinmon said. No one was injured in the incident and […]

Police Chief Mark Kinmon [pictured above and at right] will continue with his plan to retire from the Asbury Park Police Department effective Jan. 1, 2014, he said. Kinmon had announced his plans to retire in June. He had tossed the idea around in his mind beginning in December of last year, he said. Prompted by […]

Police Chief Mark Kinmon [pictured above and at right] has announced plans to retire from the Asbury Park Police Department effective Jan. 1, 2014. “After 26 years of doing the same thing, it’s time to move on,” said Kinmon. While Dec. 31 is his last official day on the job, Kinmon, 45, says he has […]

The police department is applying for a grant that would enable them to hire five new officers, Police Chief Mark Kinmon [pictured] said at last night’s council meeting. The federal Community-Oriented Policing Services [COPS] grant would help pay the salaries of five officers for three years, Kinmon said, totaling about $1.4 million. The city would […]

The city council is scheduled to meet tonight in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. The following items are on the agenda: • A presentation from prospective Springwood Avenue developers. • […]

City leaders will come together for a press conference this afternoon regarding the shooting death of Donte Kelly earlier this week. Government officials, members of the local clergy and other community leaders will attend the conference, which begins at 2 p.m. in the main lobby of City Hall, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said today. “We […]

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 […]

An Ocean Grove woman was arrested on March 10 after she allegedly stabbed an acquaintance with a steak knife due to an argument over food at 2 a.m., Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon said. Lorraine Swan, 49, was at her boyfriend’s house with him and his cousin when a fight broke out, Kinmon said. […]

Two men were injured in the Vita Gardens housing complex early Monday morning, Police Chief Mark Kinmon has said. Just before 1 a.m., a 21-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen and a 22-year-old man was shot in the arm, Kinmon said. Both are from Asbury Park. Neither sustained life-threatening injuries. The men drove themselves […]