bail reform

The administrative director of the New Jersey judiciary says a bill pending in the Legislature should scale back the changes planned for gun defendants.

With gun violence is spiking, an Assembly committee passes a bill that would lead to more people accused of gun crimes detained until their trial.

Advocates are pushing for passage of a newly proposed law that would make pretrial detention the default process for people who commit crimes while in possession of a firearm, and those who are charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm.

The New Jersey State Police Opioid Enforcement Task Force and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations have arrested three men who were found with 15-pounds of fentanyl as they shut down an opioid mill based that impacted the entire state.