There is no threat specifically directed at Lakewood or New Jersey but Lakewood police Capt. Greg Staffordsmith said his department will increase the number of on-duty officers both marked and unmarked.
The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office says a man from Seaside Heights has been sentenced to 35 years in state prison for fatally stabbing a woman at a motel last year.
A New Jersey man who was released early from jail thanks to pandemic mandates admitted to killing his former and present lovers in a New Hampshire hotel.
New Jersey's ban on beach smoking has been in effect for four summers. But shore towns are having a harder time this year keeping everyone in line with the law, especially now that recreational marijuana is legal in the Garden State.