police blotter

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say an Ohio man and a Florida man posed as high-level executives with a financial firm to improperly obtain charter jet flights and limo rides.

Authorities have accused an Essex County man of supplying heroin to Ocean County.

A Barnegat man is being held on $50,000 bail after driving while intoxicated with his 8-year-old son in the car, police said.

A New York woman has been arrested for marijuana possession after New Jersey State Troopers responding to a serious crash on Interstate 78 in Hunterdon County found  $114,000 worth of the drug on the grassy median which had flown out the window of the vehicle.

A New Jersey doctor has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for her role in an illegal oxycodone distribution ring.

Essex County authorities say an off-duty corrections officer shot and critically wounded two of three men who allegedly tried to rob him.

A civilian state police employee who allegedly posed as an inspector to coerce two South Carolina men into giving her a generator they were selling in the days after Superstorm Sandy has been indicted.

Numerous charges have been filed against a northern New Jersey man who was wounded in a running gun battle with Hackensack police last week.

A five-time Buffalo wing-eating champion known as El Wingador has pleaded guilty to a cocaine distribution charge in New Jersey.

Authorities in New Brunswick say a crackdown on prostitution has resulted in several arrests, including one woman who was arrested twice in the same day.