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Jersey City Cop Arranged to Pay $200 for Sex with Children 8, 10 in Atlantic City

Coastal News & Report March 1, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – A Jersey City cop is behind bars and facing human trafficking, aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment charges after arranging to have sex with children while Read More… The post Jersey City Cop Arranged to Pay $200 for…

Man caught robbing store on Atlantic City Boardwalk

Coastal News & Report February 23, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – On February 20, 2021, a burglary suspect was arrested after fleeing a store in front of a police officer. At 10:54 pm, Officer Ivaylo Penchev was patrolling in the 3100 block of the Boardwalk when a burglar alarm…

SWAT Team Breaks Up Atlantic City Drug Dealing Operation

Coastal News & Report February 19, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – The residents of Atlantic City are fed up with the increase in drug activity and crime and are now reporting drug dealers to the local police department. One such tip led to the arrest of 7 suspected of…

Watch: Trump Plaza Hotel Imploded in Atlantic City

Coastal News & Report February 17, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – It has sat vacant for years. During storms, pieces of its facade would fly around the boardwalk, occasionally narrowly missing people below. Today, the demolition of Trump Plaza and Hotel has a strong symbolic meaning for the left,…

Nearly half of all New Jersey workers were on unemployment at one time or another under Murphy pandemic lockdowns

Coastal News & Report February 6, 2021

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey is a state of 9 million inhabitants and when you remove those under the age of 18 and those over the age of 65, that’s a workforce eligible population of 4.45 million. According to figures released by…

Woman Held Atlantic City Store Clerk at Knife Point in Standoff with Police

Coastal News & Report February 3, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – A woman armed with a knife held a store clerk at knifepoint as police tried to talk her down. In the end, she dropped the knife and was arrested without incident by the Atlantic City Police. The Atlantic…

Snowstorm forces halt of vaccinations in New Jersey on Tuesday

Coastal News & Report February 2, 2021

TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today announced that state offices and all six vaccine mega-sites will remain closed on Tuesday, February 2nd due to Winter Storm Orlena. New Jersey will remain under a state of emergency in response to the winter storm. Snow…

SWAT Team Arrested Atlantic County Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing 19-year-old since she was 11

Coastal News & Report February 1, 2021

MAYS LANDING- A 43-year-old Hammonton man has been charged with multiple sexual offenses in connection to the sexual abuse of a woman that began at age 11 and continued until she was 19 years-old, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced. On…

Tuckerton man wanted for attempted murder captured by U.S. Marshalls in Atlantic City

Coastal News & Report January 29, 2021

TOMS RIVER, NJ – Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer has announced that Donald Rutter, 61, of Tuckerton, a fugitive from justice who was charged on January 6, 2021 with the Attempted Murder of Thomas Jarvis, 55, of Little Egg Harbor, was…

Woman Dead After Fall From Atlantic City Parking Garage Upper Level

Coastal News & Report January 29, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – On January 27, 2021, at 8:34 pm, patrol officers responded to the beach block of New Jersey Avenue for a report of a woman found lying in the street. Medical personnel arrived on the scene and the woman,…