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Federal officials have charged 20 people with being part of a cocaine-crack operation that stretched from Cliffwood in Monmouth County to Brick in Ocean County.

Aside from the high powered arsenal, the Sussex County man had white supremacist materials, authorities said.

Detectives tracked down Eduardo Martinez, of West Orange, and arrested him in Maplewood Wednesday.

The 23-year-old, self-professed clinical research associate was arrested at his West Orange house, after a two-month probe.

"When it comes to the mostly-young, mostly-minority non-violent drug offenders that fill our state prisons," NJ Attorney General Grubir Grewal said he supports reforming sentencing laws.

Former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden has been charged with drug possession after a traffic stop last month.

A Somerset County cop was on-duty and behind the wheel of his police vehicle when he shot up heroin and nearly died.

A state drug sting in Newark and Irvington resulted four people charged with spreading deadly doses of heroin and fentanyl.

When a heroin user is revived from an overdose by the use of an opioid antidote, the withdrawal symptoms can be so severe that their only priority is getting their next drug fix.

The hunt is on for a man connected to the kidnapping and slaying of a city councilman's grandson this week.