Luckily, Holmdel police were able to prevent what could have very easily turned into a Labor Day weekend tragedy.
In other police news, two Aberdeen residents report their tires were slashed last week.
A box was set up Tuesday: Drop off unused prescription medications anonymously and with no questions asked.
Some familiar names pop up as the Bayshore's heroin problem continues.
A young man died in a crash near the Laurel Avenue bridge.
Police want to talk to the suspect about items he purchased at a store on Main Street in Keansburg, Deputy Chief Kevin White said.
Surveillance video showed five actors in the store wearing masks, emptying merchandise into garbage bags, police released.
Holly Sandford raised money to buy the vests by selling homemade bracelets she made online.
Here's where and when police will be pulling drivers over:
A Brooklyn man and woman charged $4,500 to a stolen credit card there last week, police said.
A Middletown man stole Dewalt power tools, police charge.
The woman bit an EMT giving her first aid, state troopers said. The band playing was Disturbed.
A Hazlet man was one of five people arrested last week as part of a multi-day raid of an alleged prescription drug ring.
Steven Molok, 25, Anthony Carbone, 24, and Kristi Carbone, 28, were arrested earlier in August.
All the break-ins occurred Aug. 4. The suspects cut the electric to a home on Lakeview Drive and then tried to force open a back door.
They stole from the Holmdel Best Buy and the Target in Middletown, police said.
He was eating dinner at a bar/restaurant nearby when he met a man and a woman, Hazlet police told Patch.
He broke into 2 homes on Bedle Road, police said, and was seen in residents' backyards.
A Marlboro Township man hit two other men in the head with a tire iron while in the course of robbing them, police said.
She and a male companion were stopped in Middletown Township June 30 and searched, police said.
He was charged with attempted burglary of a home in the township.
The fire broke out at about 7 a.m. off Branch Street.
Crews were battling a fire at PNC Arts Center early Saturday, just ahead of a Keith Urban concert.
Hazlet Police posted this photo to Facebook Friday:
A woman by the same name was arrested in March for stealing checks when she worked as a front-desk receptionist at Holmdel Orthodontics.
Two people were killed and 12 were injured after a van overturned on the Garden State Parkway Friday, police said.
A big house fire was raging in Monmouth County on Friday, according to reports.
In an unrelated case, a Belford man was found with crack cocaine as well.
He ran around in the middle of the street Monday, screaming, shouting and then jumping on the roof of an occupied car, police said.
The bank is located in Hazlet Plaza right off Rt. 35, near the Walgreens and Aldi.
A Belford man was arrested in Hazlet Township last week for having heroin and a hypodermic needle on him, according to a criminal complaint.
The Holmdel and Hazlet police departments were each given a $5,000 grant for extra police patrols for the two weeks around Memorial Day.
The Shore Blvd. man was also found with a syringe on him, police said.
"What's that got to do with my son catching fish?" he told NJ.com when asked about the connection.
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The same man whose dog drowned in Toms River last year was doing unlicensed roofing work just prior to the Keyport blaze, prosecutors say.
42 people injured in fire, including 8 firefighters, three cats killed, four families left homeless. Devastation in Keyport.
He said he was a member of the New Jersey State Police and forced his way into a home at gunpoint to steal cash and drugs.
Drivers were either caught intoxicated or with drugs, police say.
Police had to use Narcan on Friday afternoon, too, in Keansburg, after another suspected heroin/opiate overdose.