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Nearly a month after Gov. Phil Murphy announced a state review of controversial, revised education standards — including sex and gender identity issues — the battle of public opinion has only intensified.

Lawmakers from both major political parties called for a pause to ensure age appropriateness before the standards were enacted in classrooms by the fall.

Lots of attention has remained on a few sample lesson plans as crafted by the progressive non-profit, Advocates for Youth.

“Rights, Respect, Responsibility is a sex education curriculum that fully meets the National Sexuality Education Standards,” the Washington D.C. based group says on its website, saying of the sample curriculum “It is evidence-informed, rights-based and LGBTQ-inclusive.”

Republican state Senators responded with a different “three Rs” proposal on April 27 — “Repeal” health education standards, “Replace” lessons on diversity and inclusion under a 2021 law, “Restore” parental control over curriculum decisions.

“It’s disappointing, though not surprising, to see conservatives approach sex education in a spirit of glib sarcasm rather than actually working for the health of New Jersey’s students,” Advocates for Youth President Debra Hauser said in a written statement.

“It’s sad to see such a forward-thinking state be pulled back into the dark ages, the victim of a misinformation campaign that has intentionally distorted what is taught in sex education and knowingly misrepresented our 3Rs curriculum,” she continued.

Opt in, opt out?

Another “r” word has become common among the push-back — refusal to believe the acting education commissioner when she was questioned at a recent budget hearing about the learning standards.

Parents already retain the right to “opt out of content related to sex education that conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs,” Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan said.

At least one school district sent notice home in February, reminding guardians that they could make such a request.

Holmdel’s acting school superintendent said a signed request and a statement for excusal just needed to be sent to a student’s principal, as reported by Patch.

Heightened conflicts

Religious beliefs of students’ households clashing with what is — and is not — covered in a public school education is not by any means a new issue in New Jersey or the rest of the country.

Abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education has been a time-worn argument within public schools since last century.

In recent years, gender identity and sexual orientation have added a few more layers to potential clashes between science-based approaches and religious beliefs that do not acknowledge those issues in the same way.

Another factor amid the widening divide is the ease with which rumors and arguments can be shared and spread on social media.

Just one Facebook group, “Team PYC – Protect Your Children – NJ OPEN TEAM” has almost 5,000 members, alone.

“Team PYC is a group of people who want to protect the children from the pending LGBT curriculum. We are parents, teachers, school board members, concerned taxpayers, mothers, fathers, church leaders, Christians, people of faith, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and Coptic Christians,” according to the group’s description.

The Republican “three Rs” plan does not include a 2019 law to make the general school curriculum more LGBTQ inclusive in portraying historical and influential figures.

At the root of the controversy is the struggle to accommodate and acknowledge the backgrounds of more than 1.3 million students in New Jersey.

“The court has repeatedly stressed that the Constitution prohibits public schools from indoctrinating children in religion. But it is not always easy to determine exactly what constitutes indoctrination or school sponsorship of religious activities,” according to the Pew Research Center.
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The 2019 Pew Center post largely refers to matters like prayer in a school setting, but also comes into play when talking about perspective on gender identity and family issues being directly informed by a family’s religious beliefs.

New Jersey encompasses progressive households of different family structures, as well as conservative, religious households which maintain a “nuclear family” view — two married parents of opposite genders and their children.

Some Republican Senators leading the push to repeal the standards have been critical of resource links on the state Department of Education’s website, under “New Jersey Student Learning Standards — Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.”

There’s objection to a link to Rutgers Answer, a national organization that “provides and promotes unfettered access to comprehensive sexuality education for young people and the adults who teach them.”

The same resource section also includes a link to the Digital Wellness Network and “Love is respect,” a project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

“New Jersey was among the first states to mandate sex education back in 1980. It was a bold and progressive move that was celebrated across the state,” Hauser continued.

“New Jersey also led the country during the height of the HIV epidemic, implementing innovative policies and providing HIV education to help thwart the rising rates—a model that was later emulated across the country.”

“We believe NJ’s young people deserve honest sex education. We believe they have the right to benefit from 40 years of public health research that clearly shows the protective benefits of such an education,” the Advocates for Youth president said.

With previous reporting by Michael Symons

Erin Vogt is a reporter and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach her at erin.vogt@townsquaremedia.com

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WOODBRIDGE — A number of families with children attending Colonia High School are calling for a remote learning option as investigations into a possible brain cancer cluster continue.

Twenty people from 16 families signed the letter sent to Mayor John McCormac and Woodbridge Superintendent Joseph Massimino. Dated April 30, it states that the signees are “concerned Colonia High School parents, alumni, and township members.”

“Our children enjoy attending school and many prefer in-person learning to remote. We are not insisting that the school close down completely, but why isn’t remote learning an option?” the letter asked. “As it is, there are parents who have been keeping their children home because they do not want to take any chances.”

It comes amid an investigation into a possible brain tumor cluster found by Colonia graduate Al Lupiano.

New Jersey 101.5 first reported that Lupiano had found dozens of rare brain tumors among graduates and former staff at the school. That number has grown to over 115 people, according to Lupiano, a former EPA emergency responder who has decades of experience in environmental cleanup.

With the number of possibly connected brain tumors still growing, concern among the Woodbridge community is growing as well. And the township is unable to take further action until the results of radon and radiation testing, as first reported by New Jersey 101.5, come back, Mayor McCormac told New Jersey 101.5 Tuesday.

The letter further expressed concerns that these tests are not enough. It also calls for a community and school board meeting dedicated to the issue, along with the demand for remote learning.

“Make remote an option. You have the power to do this,” the letter stated.

But Massimino wrote back that he does not have that power. The superintendent told New Jersey 101.5 that he responded to the families in a letter Tuesday.

In his response, Massimino wrote that the state created a remote learning option amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Then last year, Gov. Phil Murphy mandated all public schools to return to in-person classes.

“I have made several inquiries with the New Jersey Department of Education, in an effort to determine whether there could be any exception to this rule, but was informed that remote instruction is only available in the event of an active health crisis or emergency,” Massimino said.

“At this time, the Woodbridge Township Board of Health has informed me that there is no substantiated public health concern related to Colonia High School.”

While many Woodbridge residents have expressed concerns about the possible brain tumor cluster, there is still no solid evidence backing it. That will depend on testing results and further investigation.

The results of the radon and radiation testing are expected later this month.

BERKELEY — A small plane that crashed at Ocean County Airport on Sunday evening is owned by the same flight school that lost a plane in a November crash.

The Cessna 172 left Old Bridge Airport in Englishtown and crashed around 6 p.m., according to FAA records and FlightAware.com. It is owned by Old Bridge Flight School which is based at the airport.

Pictures of the plane show it standing upright on its nose against a perimeter fence that runs along Route 530. The FAA’s incident notification said the plane experienced “engine issues” and crashed into the fence.  Berkeley police Sgt. Taylor Butler told the Asbury Park Press that a pilot and flight instructor were not injured.

Plane destroyed in November crash

The same model plane was also involved in a crash at Old Bridge Airport on Nov. 21, during which a 17-year-old student pilot failed to maintain control of the plane upon landing, according to the NTSB’s incident report.

Video of the crash shows the plane briefly landing on a runway, taking off again and then landing on its wing and catching fire. A preliminary report concluded the plane was destroyed.

The NTSB’s reports about both crashes will take 12-24 months to complete.

Fourth NJ small plane crash in a month

Three other small planes have crashed at New Jersey airports since the end of March.

A single-engine M20M  crashed on the front lawn of a house on South Main Street in Manville while trying to land at Central Jersey Airport. The pilot got out of the plane and was hospitalized for a facial injury.

A plane rolled off the runway at Morristown Airpot in Hanover with four people on board. It came to a stop in the grass with significant damage. Both wings had separated from the small plane, according to Morristown Green.

A Citation CJ3 jet landing on Runway 22 at Essex County Airport on April 18 was not able to touch down at the correct moment due to strong crosswinds. When the plane did land on the runway it went off the pavement into a drainage brook.

Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com

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ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The South Mountain YMCA will host the Y’s annual Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, May 7, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 13 Jefferson Ave. in Maplewood and the East Orange YMCA will host Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, May 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 100 N. Arlington Ave. in East Orange.

The South Mountain YMCA event will feature bounce houses, arts and crafts, a dunk tank, a DJ, games, prizes, a family fun zone and more. To learn more, contact the Y at 973-758-9039 or visit metroymcas.org/HKD.

The East Orange YMCA event will feature fun, active play and educational activities, including bounce houses, a gaming truck, a live DJ, face painting, raffles and giveaways, refreshments, and more. The event will feature fire truck demos from the East Orange Fire Department, and include local community organizations such as the East Orange Police Department, Parents Engaging Parents, NJ Jackals and more. The Y will also host a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinic and education series in partnership with the city of East Orange during Healthy Kids Day; vaccines will be available for residents ages 5 through 17.

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As if the news about the racist behavior of Mayor Sal Bonaccorso weren’t already enough. NJ.com’s bombshell about the town having a history of secret payouts over officials’ bad behavior was an eye-opener.

Sal Bonaccorso was of course secretly recorded by a whistleblower. Those recordings had the mayor frequently and freely using terms like “shines” for black people and also the N-word. Taxpayers footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars to the whistleblower for keeping the whole thing quiet.

Now it’s come out, according to NJ.com, that the municipality, long-regarded as a racist town that had a reputation of trying to keep black people from living there, has paid off other people who had other secret recordings of other racist and similar bad behavior.

Enough is enough.

I lived there briefly as a kid. Just one year. The last year my parents were together. I had grown up in Rahway, which borders Clark. But it might as well have been a different universe.

My first day in the new district’s school system was shocking. I had never before gone to a school where there were no black students. It seemed completely abnormal to me. I noticed it on day one.

There was always an air about Clark. A superiority. My parents only rented a home there and the house was not in disrepair by any means whatsoever. But it could have used a new exterior paint job. Not flaking off. Not an eyesore. Just not the nicest on the block. But the landlord wouldn’t do it. My father even asked if they bought the paint could the landlord give permission for them to do it themselves. They were denied.

I heard rumors as a child that black families were purposely not sold homes there. You could feel it.

But what happened next said a lot about the superiority of the town. Knowing nothing about us, the neighborhood started a petition telling us basically we were bad homeowners and were dragging down the area, and they pushed the demand that we paint the home. Keep in mind our total time spent living in Clark was 12 months. This petition was delivered to our door within three months of being there. Again, knowing nothing about us.

What a welcome to the neighborhood.

Which is my point. Clark, often called ClarKKK, never felt welcoming. And we were white.

Black families say they’ve known for decades to avoid Clark. Avoid living in it or even just driving through it. I heard rumors as a child that black families were purposely not sold homes there. You could feel it. Not everyone in Clark is a bad person. Not by any means. But you could feel the racism in the town. You could feel the attitude. You would hear the grumbles from certain racist adults as a kid living there.

So the Mayor Bonaccorso story didn’t shock me when it came out. And this latest news coming from the town about other secret recordings and other payoffs makes me think one thing. This town needs to elect a black mayor as soon as possible.

For me to say that is noteworthy. Because I have never bought into the business of fixing problems with race. I think affirmative action went way too far. I think the old practice of weighting college applications in favor of minorities was wrong. I always felt the best person for the job should have the job and race should not be looked at.

But you know what else has gone way too far?

The racism in Clark.

And if the majority of people living in that town would re-elect a racist like Sal Bonaccorso over a qualified black candidate then it says everything you need to know about Clark, NJ.

So come on, Clark. Show me I’m wrong. Show me you’re not a racist town. Elect a black candidate if you have the opportunity.

Oh, what’s that? Shut up with my opinion because I don’t live there now?

That’s right. You never did like “outsiders,” did ya?

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A Supreme Court justice from New Jersey is now apparently poised to re-write history.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who grew up in Hamilton and raised a family in West Caldwell, prosecuted mobsters as the state’s U.S. Attorney, and served as a Reagan Administration lawyer. He has been named as the author of a leaked draft opinion from the high court that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.

That draft, published Monday night by Politico, indicated that the court had already voted privately to throw out the landmark decision.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Politico said Alito writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.”

According to the draft obtained by the news organization, Alito went on to say: “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

The news was no surprise to many who opposed his confirmation as a justice — despite his assertions at the time that he had no pre-determined positions on the issue. Indeed, he had told the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearings in 2006 that Supreme Court justices must respect the opinions of previous courts and the power of the executive and legislative branches of government.

In a 64-page response to a questionnaire from the panel, Alito said the courts “must engage in a constant process of self-discipline to ensure that they respect the limits of their authority.”

Yet in earlier writings, he said he believed the decision by the court had been wrong.

Alito, 72, was born in Trenton. He attended Princeton University where the late Walter F. Murphy, a constitutional scholar, would later recall him as an undergraduate who could “quickly and succinctly summarize both sides of an argument” and give a reasoned opinion.

“It was like listening to a great judge,” said Murphy in an interview after Alito was nominated by President George W. Bush to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — a nomination that came after the previous nominee, White House counsel Harriet Miers, ran into strong opposition from conservatives, forcing her to withdraw from consideration.

Murphy, who died in 2010, had been Alito’s college thesis adviser and predicted back then that Alito would one day be a famous judge.

He described Alito as someone who respected judicial precedent.

“He’s basically a conservative person. He doesn’t sit back and say, ‘If I had to remake the world, here’s how I’d do it,’” Murphy told the Associated Press in a 2005 interview.

Alito went on to law school at Yale University.

His mother, Rose, was a schoolteacher, and his father, Sam, was the head of the nonpartisan agency in Trenton that helps state lawmakers write legislation. In preparation for his hearings after his nomination to the court, Alito told The Star-Ledger that upon learning that one newspaper had been working on a story about his family’s entry to the United States from Italy, the staff working on his nomination hired its own professional genealogist to study the family’s roots. He said he soon learned his father and grandmother came into the country through Philadelphia on a ship later sunk by a U-boat.

Alito came to Washington in the 1980s to work in the Solicitor General’s Office, where he wrote legal briefs and argued cases before the Supreme Court. Later, the young attorney was promoted to the Office of Legal Counsel, where he gave legal advice to executive-branch agencies — among a group of young and conservative attorneys who sought to curb what they saw as the liberal judicial activism epitomized by the Warren Court. Among his arguments was that federal authorities should be exempt from lawsuits for conducting warrantless wiretaps.

At the same time, they looked to put conservatives like themselves on the bench. They fought court decisions that permitted school busing and affirmative action as well as rulings that barred school prayer. Their targets included rules recognizing abortion rights.

In a 1985 application for a Justice Department promotion, Alito wrote he personally believed “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion” and that he opposed affirmative action.

Later, Alito was named U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

Working out of the federal office building in Newark, he could often be seen at the T.M. Ward Coffee Co. on Broad Street, which would name his favorite brew for him — “Bold Justice,” a mix of dark Papua New Guinea, Celebs Kalossi, Java, Italian Roast and espresso beans concocted for him one year as a surprise birthday gift.

He joined the federal appeals court in 1990.

Married with two children, he and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, a former librarian, raised their family in West Caldwell. In fact, long after Alito joined the U.S. Supreme Court, the family stayed behind in the Essex County suburb so his daughter could finish her senior year at James Caldwell High School. Every weekend, he left the nation’s capital and headed back home to New Jersey.

During his confirmation hearings, Alito stated that he had great respect for the 1973 Roe. vs. Wade precedent legalizing abortion. But he refused to commit to upholding it in the future.

In his response to the Justice Committee’s questionnaire, he wrote that members of the high court were not subject to the vagaries of politics and the approval of the electorate. Justices, he said, must therefore police their own behavior.

“Judges must be appropriately modest in their estimation of their own abilities; they must respect the judgments reached by predecessors; and they must be sensibly cautious about the scope of their decisions,” he said.

At the same time, Alito said, the court should not hesitate to take dramatic action when constitutional violations are proven.

“Some of the finest chapters in the history of the federal courts have been written when federal judges, despite resistance, have steadfastly enforced remedies for deeply rooted constitutional violations,” he wrote.

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Kader Mustafa, a 40-year-old man from Mercer County will spend the rest of his life behind prison walls and won’t even become eligible for parole until he turns 104-years old for maliciously murdering a woman driving along Route 33 West in Freehold Township on this day in 2018, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced on Tuesday.

On Thursday, May 3, 2018, 24-year old Sciasia Calhoun was driving a 1997 Mazda Protege along Route 33 West near the exit for Halls Mill Road in Freehold Township as she and her 1-year-old daughter and boyfriend were on their way to Asbury Park but then realized the headlights on the vehicle weren’t working, just the high beams were that night, according to Judge Vincent N. Falcetano Jr. who oversaw the case in court.

She turned the car around and the three of them were heading back home when they came across Mustafa in a 2005 Chevrolet Impala who started firing a gun right at them and hit Sciascia Calhoun in the head but somehow had the presence of mind at that moment to bring the car to safety.

“Her last act,” Judge Falcetano said in court, “was to somehow safely pull over the vehicle to the side of the road, despite having been shot by a man he described as a “cauldron of rage” who was “marauding … aimlessly” that night, while armed. “This was completely random. I don’t have enough words in my vocabulary to describe it.”

Sciasia Calhoun was the only one injured in the vehicle with her boyfriend and 1-year-old daughter not suffering any injuries.

Freehold Township Police arrived on the scene on a 911 call around 11:45 pm and shortly thereafter, Calhoun was rushed by Freehold First Aid, with the assistance of Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corporation to CentraState Medical Center.

She was pronounced dead about one hour later at the hospital.

Mustafa was driving and suddenly fired a shot at Calhoun after following her for several minutes and tapped her rear bumper along the way, according to the investigation conducted by the MCPO Major Crimes Bureau and Freehold Police with “significant assistance from the Manalapan Police Department.”

The following morning, at 8:10 am, Mustafa was arrested at his cousin’s residence near Oakland Mills Road in Manalapan where police also found two handguns.

According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, many members of Calhoun’s family spoke in court at the sentencing on Monday.

“They described a “diamond in the rough” with ample ambition and a fierce independent streak, who stubbornly refused to let anyone help her learn how to ride a bicycle as a young child – despite bumps, bruises, and scratches piling up – until she had perfected it on her own.”

“The defendant chose to randomly fire a shot and randomly kill a 24-year-old who had done absolutely nothing to him,” MCPO Director of Investigations Christopher Decker, who represented the State at sentencing, said in court, according to the MCPO. “There’s nothing more depraved or heinous.”

Mustafa was convicted by a jury in October of 2021 on first-degree Murder, second-degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose, two counts of second-degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, and two counts of third-degree Endangering Another Person.

MCPO Investigation Division Director and Assistant Prosecutor John Loughrey, who Acting Prosecutor Linskey said has since retired, handled the prosecution of this case.

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Kader Mustafa, a 40-year-old man from Mercer County will spend the rest of his life behind prison walls and won’t even become eligible for parole until he turns 104-years old for maliciously murdering a woman driving along Route 33 West in Freehold Township on this day in 2018, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced on Tuesday.

On Thursday, May 3, 2018, 24-year old Sciasia Calhoun was driving a 1997 Mazda Protege along Route 33 West near the exit for Halls Mill Road in Freehold Township as she and her 1-year-old daughter and boyfriend were on their way to Asbury Park but then realized the headlights on the vehicle weren’t working, just the high beams were that night, according to Judge Vincent N. Falcetano Jr. who oversaw the case in court.

She turned the car around and the three of them were heading back home when they came across Mustafa in a 2005 Chevrolet Impala who started firing a gun right at them and hit Sciascia Calhoun in the head but somehow had the presence of mind at that moment to bring the car to safety.

“Her last act,” Judge Falcetano said in court, “was to somehow safely pull over the vehicle to the side of the road, despite having been shot by a man he described as a “cauldron of rage” who was “marauding … aimlessly” that night, while armed. “This was completely random. I don’t have enough words in my vocabulary to describe it.”

Sciasia Calhoun was the only one injured in the vehicle with her boyfriend and 1-year-old daughter not suffering any injuries.

Freehold Township Police arrived on the scene on a 911 call around 11:45 pm and shortly thereafter, Calhoun was rushed by Freehold First Aid, with the assistance of Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corporation to CentraState Medical Center.

She was pronounced dead about one hour later at the hospital.

Mustafa was driving and suddenly fired a shot at Calhoun after following her for several minutes and tapped her rear bumper along the way, according to the investigation conducted by the MCPO Major Crimes Bureau and Freehold Police with “significant assistance from the Manalapan Police Department.”

The following morning, at 8:10 am, Mustafa was arrested at his cousin’s residence near Oakland Mills Road in Manalapan where police also found two handguns.

According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, many members of Calhoun’s family spoke in court at the sentencing on Monday.

“They described a “diamond in the rough” with ample ambition and a fierce independent streak, who stubbornly refused to let anyone help her learn how to ride a bicycle as a young child – despite bumps, bruises, and scratches piling up – until she had perfected it on her own.”

“The defendant chose to randomly fire a shot and randomly kill a 24-year-old who had done absolutely nothing to him,” MCPO Director of Investigations Christopher Decker, who represented the State at sentencing, said in court, according to the MCPO. “There’s nothing more depraved or heinous.”

Mustafa was convicted by a jury in October of 2021 on first-degree Murder, second-degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose, two counts of second-degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, and two counts of third-degree Endangering Another Person.

MCPO Investigation Division Director and Assistant Prosecutor John Loughrey, who Acting Prosecutor Linskey said has since retired, handled the prosecution of this case.

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As we get closer to Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start to summer, you can expect to see increased police patrols as more people are driving on our local roads to ensure safety for all.

It’s also part of a continued effort to prevent people from drinking and driving and getting behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs including the newly legal drug — marijuana.

Lakehurst Police said that one of their officers was on traffic detail with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Vehicular Homicide Unit one day last week as they were trying to crack down on intoxicated driving.

On Thursday evening, around 7:44 pm, the Lakehurst Police Officer pulled an Oldsmobile Alero over along Route 70 after looking up the registration of the vehicle and seeing that the driver had an active traffic warrant out on him.

When the vehicle was pulled over, the police officer arrested the driver, 30-year-old Christopher Cornell Jr. (no relation) of Whiting for the active warrant and without incident.

Meanwhile, the passenger in that vehicle that was pulled over, 56-year-old James Pollack, 56, of Whiting was also arrested after the Lakehurst Police Officer said that he was “seen making unnatural movements inside of the vehicle during the motor vehicle stop.”

It turns out that Pollack also had an active traffic warrant on him which is a reason he was placed under arrest which took place without incident.

Police then found Pollack in possession of approximately 100 wax folds of suspected heroin.

The officer then searched the vehicle and found an additional 150 wax folds of suspected heroin.

Cornell Jr. and Pollack were brought to Lakehurst Police Headquarters for processing after their arrests and they were both charged with Possession of CDS and Possession of CDS with the intent to distribute.

While Pollack was eventually released, Cornell Jr. was brought to the Ocean County Jail.

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