gangs

As heroin use keeps increasing in New Jersey, gang activity continues to flourish in the cities, the suburbs and even in rural areas, but law enforcement officials are fighting back.

A recent drug sweep in Monmouth County took numerous guns off the streets of Asbury Park, but the fight continues to remove illegal weapons from criminals.

A veteran police officer has been caught up in a gang crackdown in Asbury Park.

There's a new form of motorcycle gang popping up across the nation. It's one that can gather at the drop of a social media post; it's one that isn't focused sharply on violence; it's one that hopes to garner fame over the Internet.

Gang members in New Jersey's capital city are being tracked down, and then offered job training, an assortment of social services and counseling.

Law enforcement agents in New Jersey continue to battle with gang violence as 14 suspected members from the international MS-13 gang are arrested in Plainfield.

Three former leaders of a New Jersey branch of the violent international street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha” (aka MS-13), as well as eleven alleged members, are charged with racketeering and murder as part of a federal indictment.

Four members of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the Bloods street gang have pleaded guilty to racketeering and admit they took part in a 2006 murder in South Jersey. They were charged in ‘Operation Nine Connect,’ a joint investigation by the New Jersey State Police and the Division of Criminal Justice.

The leader of a northern New Jersey street gang has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for his involvement in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.

It’s one more victory in New Jersey’s on-going war against gangs.