PARIS (AP) -- One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop the gunman.
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is renting three billboards in tough sections of Asbury Park and Neptune to send a pointed message to criminals that gun crime equals jail time.
An ex-police officer was sentenced today after pleading guilty to weapons charges stemming from a 2009 investigation that uncovered a massive weapons cache at his home.
You've got to figure if somebody is up to no good if they've already been convicted of a violent crime and are looking to buy ammunition when they're back out on the streets.
It began in March 2012 and targeted illegal firearm sales in Trenton. As a result, the New Jersey State Police Weapons Trafficking Unit in conjunction with the Trenton Police Department arrested eight people on gun related charges during an investigation dubbed "Operation Gravedigger."