Lakewood

Investigators in Ocean County have found no evidence that school buses have been transporting children to schools or that schools have remained open in violation of a state pandemic order.

Lakewood's Board of Education attorney Michael Inzelbuch said two more buses were stopped by police near the Toms River border.

On Wednesday evening, Lakewood Police responded to a large gathering on the corner of 8th Street and Madison Avenue for what turned out to be a funeral where between 60 and 70 people were assembled.

This gathering was in violation of Executive Order No. 107 signed by Governor Phil Murphy on March 21, which bans gatherings of individuals, whether they be at weddings, parties, celebrations, or other social events.

The wheels on a Lakewood school bus are evidentially still going round and round as police pulled over a bus on Monday afternoon in the township that is reportedly bringing students back and forth to school.

Police said they made "several attempts" to break up the gathering at a school on Monday morning.

Police have broken up another large gathering of people in Lakewood and in addition to violating Governor Phil Murphy's executive order, two parents are in trouble for endangering their children.

A Howell man's Facebook comments got him arrested on after police said he threatened to harm Jewish residents with a baseball bat.

Lakewood's Jewish community has seen backlash in the novel coronavirus outbreak.

A Lakewood man who coughed on a Liquor Store employee and said he had coronavirus because the clerk wouldn't sell him a pack of cigarettes will appear in court next month after being given a criminal complaint for disorderly conduct.

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A day after Gov. Phil Murphy called out certain people in Lakewood for holding two large gatherings that had to be broken up by police, the governor called out hateful comments directed at the township's Orthodox Jewish residents.