Anthony Friel, a Cape May County resident, was sentenced Friday before Judge Batten in Cape May County Superior Court to fourteen years state prison for driving while high on heroin and crashing his car into a bus shelter causing serious injuries. The victim, Michael Mauer, was waiting for a bus when Friel’s car veered off […]

Anderson Sotomayor of Vineland, Cumberland County was arrested Thursday Night by the Vineland Police and charged with DWI. The police spotted Sotomayor tossing bottles and cans of alcohol out of his car near 7th and Chestnut Streets in Vineland. This makes six DWI arrests for Sotomayor within the past few months. A police car was […]

New Jersey law requires administration of a breathalyzer test during a DWI arrest. Residents automatically consent to this test when they obtain a driver’s license in New Jersey under the theory of implied consent, and the consequences stemming from a refusal to take the test may surprise many. Breathalyzer tests are the most commonly used […]

Police overstepped their bounds by doing a room-by-room warrantless search of rented shore house after responding to a noise complaint, the New Jersey Supreme Court says. In May, 2012, the justices in State v. Kalter unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that suppressed drugs seized from a bedroom. The Court ruled that the police conducted […]

The summer season is always busy for recreational boating activities at the Jersey shore. There are all kinds of power boats, personal watercrafts, sailboats and party fishing boats on the ocean, back bays and inland waterways all summer long. The New Jersey State Police and United States Coast Guard are the two law enforcement agencies […]