A 40-year-old man from Ocean County has been arrested on child pornography charges, authorities said.
Richard Knight of New Eqypt was charged Wednesday with possessing and distributing sexual explicit materials involving minors, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.
An investigation began in December 2020 after numerous referrals from the New Jersey State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force the prosecutor said.
The Task Force detected that someone using the Google Meets program was uploading images of child pornography to the internet, Billhimer said.
On Wednesday, detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, U. S. Homeland Security Investigations and Plumsted Township police made a warranted search on Knight’s residence in New Egypt, Billhimer said.
Multiple Ocean County law enforcement agencies are investigating the death of a woman found in a wooded area of the Barnegat Branch Trail near County Line Road in Waretown
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TOMS RIVER - A Lakewood woman whose baby daughter died after being left unattended in a hot car for hours pleaded guilty on Friday to endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor s Office.
Chaya Shurkin, 27, was charged in connection with the May 6, 2019 tragedy. The baby had been left alone with the car turned off for about two-and-a-half hours, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said in a news release.
Prosecutors will not seek jail time for Shurkin and instead recommend a term of probation at her sentencing, which is scheduled for July 23, Billhimer said.