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![]() New Jersey's most famous crime was the kidnapping of the 18-month old son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, the body of the child was discovered in the woods in Hopewell Township, a short distance from the Lindberghs' home in East Amwell. A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture, which some analysts believe may have occurred when the boy was dropped as he was carried down a ladder by the kidnapper from his second-floor bedroom. In the weeks before the discovery of the body, Charles Lindbergh and New Jersey State Police Superintendent Norman Schwarzkopf (father of Desert Storm general Norman Scwarzkopf, Jr.) personally worked to establish contact with the perpetrators and deliver a $50,000 ransom for the return of the child. Rightly or wrongly, the perception of New Jersey as a haven for crime has been furthered by two highly-popular Home Box Office television series.
Most recently, in Boardwalk Empire, loosely adapted from a nonfiction book by the same name authored by New Jersey Superior Court Judge Nelson Johnson, Atlantic City's heritage of political corruption and crime centered on the reign of the flamboyant Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the Republican boss who controlled the City and its county from 1910 until his conviction and imprisonment in 1941. Johnson (whose character's last name in the HBO series was changed to "Thompson"), blatantly ignored open gambling, prostitution and illegal alcohol sales and bootlegging in return for kickbacks and bribes. "We have whisky, wine, women, song and slot machines" Johnson was famously quoted in defending the lawlessness. "I won't deny it and I won't apologize for it. If the majority of the people didn't want them they wouldn't be profitable and they would not exist. The fact that they do exist proves to me that the people want them." In 1929, Johnson hosted national crime bosses, including Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and several others in what is considered the earliest step toward establishing the National Crime Commission which later controlled major organized crime activities in the nation. Two of the participants at the Atlantic City Conference also carved their own marks in New Jersey's criminal legacy. On October 23, 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot and killed at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, apparently a murder ordered by the National Crime Commission after Schultz defied the Commission's order not to continue planning an assassination of US Attorney for New York Thomas E. Dewey. Another Atlantic City attendee, Abner "Longy" Zwillman of Newark, would continue a long criminal career during which he was described in press accounts as the "Al Capone of New Jersey." In the 1920s during Prohibition, Zwillman focused on bootlegging from Canada, but he later evolved into a hidden financial interest in the Columbia Pictures motion picture studio (along with an affair with famed star Jean Harlow) and in the 1940s and 1950s control of illegal gambling and vending machines in Newark and its region. In 1959, after being subpoenaed to testify before the US Senate committee investigating organized crime chaired by Senator George McClellan, Zwillman, was found dead hanging from a noose strung up in the basement of his West Orange home, a death officially ruled a suicide but which some continue to question as possibly a staged killing by fellow crime bosses concerned over his potential disclosures of the operations of the national crime network. An earlier HBO award-winning series, The Sopranos, ran for six seasons between 1999 and 2007 featuring a more contemporary profile of organized crime in New Jersey. Its creator, David Chase, grew up in Clifton and North Caldwell in the latter 1940s and 1950s, maintained that the plots depicting the criminal and blood family headed by Tony Soprano (played by Rutgers graduate James Gandolfini) were fictional, but inspiration for some characters has been suggested as drawn from the DeCalvacante family of Simone"Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante. DeCavalcante's s nickname was derived from his ownership of a plumbing and heating business in Kenilworth which was used as a front and source to report legal income. In 1969, during a federal racketeering trial of DeCalvacante, transcripts of tapes illegally recorded over 1964-65 by the FBI were surprisingly introduced in response to a pretrial motion by DeCalvacante's lawyers seeking evidence of electronic surveillance which disclosed graphic conversations of mob murders and boasts of ties to New Jersey congressmen and local elected officials. In addition to DeCalvacante, those recorded included Ruggiero "Richie the Boot" Boiardo and his son "Tony Boy" Boiardo and his son alleged re, in part, the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of HBO's dramatic series The Sopranos.[2] Harold Giles Hoffman (February 7, 1896 – June 4, 1954) was an American politician, a Republican who served as the 41st Governor of New Jersey, from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, from 1927 to 1931.On March 18, 1954, Governor Robert B. Meyner uncovered a significant embezzlement scheme perpetrated by Hoffman, and suspended him from his position of Unemployment Compensation Commission Director. Three months later, in June 1954, Hoffman died in a New York City hotel room of a heart attack.[3] Just before dying, the disgraced former governor wrote a confession and admitted that he had embezzled over $300,000 from the state. Hoffman is buried in Christ Church Cemetery in South Amboy, New Jersey The DeCavalcante crime family is an organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey[1] and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the Philadelphia crime family and the Patriarca crime family of New England. Its illicit activities include bookmaking, building, cement, and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations. The DeCavalcantes are, in part, the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of HBO's dramatic series The Sopranos.[2] The DeCavalcante family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010[3] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary (first airdate April 26, 2006) directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films.[4] |
^ "Under The Crabapple Tree.". Time (magazine). November 15, 1926. Retrieved 2007-08-21. Three hundred newspaper men and women sat in a curving, triple arc of chairs facing the judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, New Jersey. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. ..." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial for the murder of a clergyman and a choir singer. However, on October 4, 1951, Moretti was assassinated by order of the Mafia Commission; the mob bosses were unhappy with his testimony during the U.S. Senate Kefauver Hearings. Costello appointed Genovese as the new underboss.[26]In December 1952, Anna Genovese sued her husband for financial support, an unheard-of action by the wife of a Cosa Nostra figure. Two years earlier, she had moved out of the family home in New Jersey.[27] In 1953, Genovese allegedly ordered the murder of mobster Steven Franse. Genovese had tasked Franse with supervising Anna Genovese while her husband was hiding in Italy. Outraged over Anna's love affairs and her lawsuit against him, Genovese blamed it all on Franse. Following Genovese's orders, two hitmen brutally beat Franse and then slowly strangled him.[28] During the mid-1950s, Genovese decided to move against Costello. However, Genovese needed to also remove Costello's strong ally on the Commission, Albert Anastasia, the feared boss of the Anastasia crime family. Genovese was soon conspiring with Carlo Gambino, Anastasia's underboss, to remove Anastasia. In May 1957, Genovese ordered the Costello murder attempt. On May 2, as Costello was entering the lobby of his apartment building, mobster Vincent Gigante stepped out of a limousine, shot Costello once in the head, and then left the scene. Fortunately for Costello, he suffered only a superficial scalp wound.[29] However, the experience convinced Costello to retire from the family. Genovese now became boss of what is known as the Genovese crime family and promoted his longtime lieutenant, Anthony Strollo, to underboss. In late 1957, Genovese and Gambino allegedly ordered Anastasia's murder. Genovese had heard rumors that Costello was conspiring with Anastasia to regain power. On October 25, 1957, Anastasia arrived a Manhattan hotel barber shop for a haircut and shave. As Anastasia relaxed in the barber chair, two men with their faces covered in scarves shot and killed Anastasia. Witnesses were unable to identify any of the gunmen and competing theories exist today as to their identities.[30][31] The coup against Costello was supported by the two biggest earners in the family, Anthony Strollo and Anthony Carfano. Soon after Genovese became the godfather, he would allegedly arrange for these two caporegimes to be murdered. Genovese loyalists Philip Lombardo, Gerardo Catena and Mike Miranda would assume the top positions in the family by the early 1960s. Jump to: navigation, search
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills (1888-1922), was the wife of James Mills, and one of the murder victims. Frances Noel Stevens Hall (1874–1942), widow of victim Edward Wheeler Hall and a defendant in the 1926 murder trial. A calling card of Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall was found at the Hall-Mills murders crime scene in 1922.The Hall–Mills murder case involved an Episcopal priest and a member of his choir with whom he was having an affair, who were murdered on September 14, 1922, in Somerset, New Jersey. The suspected murderers, the priest's wife and her brothers, were acquitted in a 1926 trial. In the history of journalism, the case is largely remembered for the vast extent of newspaper coverage it received nationwide; it has been regarded as an example of a media circus. It would take the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in the 1930s to eclipse the high profile of the Hall-Mills murder. The Hall-Mills murders have been much written about in both fact and fiction. Damon Runyon was one of the reporters of the trial, as was famed mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart. Willie Stevens was later the subject of an essay by James Thurber. The trial inspired the novel The Crime by Stephen Longstreet as well as Frances Noyes Hart's novel The Bellamy Trial, a pioneering work that helped[citation needed] the genre of the courtroom mystery and was turned into a film in 1929. Even before the trial, the silent film The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Jack Pickford, capitalized on Jane Gibson's story and statements; the film was remade as The Past of Mary Holmes in 1933. Attorney and liberal activist William M. Kunstler published a 1964 book titled The Minister and the Choir Singer, which he re-released with added editorial material in 1980 as The Hall-Mills Murders. In his book, Kunstler theorized that the Ku Klux Klan had been responsible for the couple's demise, based on the facts that the Klan was a very violent organization and was active in New Jersey in the 1920s. But he acknowledged that the Klan had not previously killed anyone in the state, and his reasons for thinking the group would target this particular couple were admittedly speculative.[citation needed] Gerald Tomlinson's Fatal Tryst: Who Killed the Minister and the Choir Singer? is the most detailed exploration of the case written to date and concludes that the Stevens siblings were the guilty parties.[citation needed] There were several bosses in North Jersey during the Prohibition era controlling transportation of alcohol and whiskey into New York City. There were two Mafia families based in New Jersey: the Newark family headed by Gaspare D'Amico, and the Elizabeth family headed by Stefano Badami. The New York City families had crews operating in New Jersey: the Masseria family's New Jersey faction, and the Reina family's Jersey crew. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark and Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey.
In 1935, Vincenzo Troia, a former associate of Salvatore Maranzano's, conspired to take over the Newark family, and he was murdered. Two years later, in 1937, D'Amico fled the United States after a failed assassination attempt on his life, ordered by Joseph Profaci. The Commission decided to divide up his territory among the Five Families and Badami's Elizabeth family. Stefano "Steve" Badami became the boss of the Elizabeth-Newark family; however, his reign proved to be very disruptive, as members of the Newark and the Elizabeth factions began fighting for total control of New Jersey. Badami kept controlling the crew up to the 1950s, but he was suddenly murdered in 1955 in what appears to have been another power struggle between the two factions. Badami's underboss and fellow mobster Filippo Amari stepped up to run the illegal operations. Filippo "Phil" Amari was a mobster recognized by US law enforcement as being heavily involved with extortion, labor racketeering, loansharking, and narcotics activities in Newark and New York City. He was considered the new head of the New Jersey organization, but his reign proved to be very short, as there were multiple factions operating underneath who all conspired to take over. While still in charge, he relocated to Sicily and was replaced by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore. Delmore attended the infamous 1957 Apalachin Convention to represent the small New Jersey crime family, with underbosses of Elizabeth and Newark Frank Majuri and Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso.Using information provided by Guarino, US law enforcement launched a large scale arrest on December 2, 1999 of over 30 members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family. Palermo realized they would likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars and decided to cooperate with the FBI in exchange for a lenient sentence. This resulted in the arrest of 12 more men less than a year later. This decimated the crime family's hierarchy and put it on the brink of extinction.[15] Other top members, like Anthony Rotondo and Anthony Capo, also agreed to become government witnesses. In 2001, 20 mobsters were charged with racketeering, seven murders, 14 murder conspiracies, attempted murder, extortion in the construction industry, and stock fraud. This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. Since then, several other top mobsters agreed to become government witnesses in exchange for being given lenient or no sentences at all. US law enforcement even put Giovanni Riggi on trial, who was hoping to be released in 2003, and he was sentenced to 10 additional years in prison. Joanne Chesimard, a violent black militant, cop killer and a domestic terrorist -- since 2013, the 40th anniversary of the infamous New Jersey Turnpike shootout that left Trooper Werner Foerster dead -- one of the FBI's most wanted.
To others, she is Assata Shakur, a victim of a racist justice system, a target of government efforts to discredit and neutralize black activists, the object of inflammatory media coverage and public hysteria. After escaping from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and winning political asylum in Cuba, she calls herself a 20th century escaped slave. In the early 1970s, Chesimard was a member of the radical Black Liberation Army who was wanted for questioning in a series of police shootings and armed robberies in New York City. She and two others were pulled over by Trooper James H. Harper for a busted taillight near exit 9 in East Brunswick shortly after midnight on May 2, 1973. Harper had radioed Foerster for back-up; shortly after Foerster's arrival, shots rang out. At the end of the gunfight, Foerster was dead on the ground, shot in the head with his own service weapon. Chesimard and Harper were both wounded, and Chesimard's close friend James Coston (aka Zayd Shakur) was dead in the backseat. The driver, Clark E. Squire (aka Sundiata Acoli), piloted himself and Chesimard a few miles down the Turnpike, where police found Chesimard and arrested her. Squire was found a day later. State Trooper Werner Foerster, who was murdered in a shootout with black militants on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. AP file photo Authorities say the BLA members opened fire first, but Chesimard's defenders (including her longtime lawyer Lennox Hinds, now a Rutgers criminal justice professor) have maintained that the gunshot wound that broke her clavicle could only have happened if she had been seated in the car with her hands raised.Squire was convicted in Foerster's murder and has spent the past 40 years in prison. (A state appeals court ruled last year that Squire should be released on parole, but that ruling is being appealed to the state Supreme Court.) Chesimard was convicted by an all-white jury of first-degree murder in Foerster's death and sentenced to life in prison, but in 1979, three gunmen posing as prison visitors broke her out of the New Jersey State Reformatory for Women at Clinton. Chesimard surfaced a few years later in Cuba, where her status as a political refugee continues to enrage New Jersey politicians and law enforcement officials. In 1997, the New Jersey State Police petitioned Pope John Paul II, who was about to make a historic trip to Cuba, to help extradition efforts. More recently, with President Barack Obama's move to normalize relations with Cuba, Gov. Chris Christie and others have asked that her repatriation be a condition for the resumption of diplomatic ties. There remains a $2 million reward for information leading to Chesimard's capture and return. She is now 67. - Lord Cornbury
Nearly three hundred years afte his death, the jury is still out on the final verdict on Lord Cornbury, who was born in 1661 as Edward Hyde, the 3rd Earl of Clarendon. Cornbury was appointed in 1701 to serve as the Royal governor of New York and New Jersey, during the years when New Jersey shared its governor with its neighboring colony, and held the office into 1708. Cornbury was roundly attacked by his critics during his tenure, charged with accepting bribes, misappropriating funds. Yet the claim that lasted into recent times was that he was a cross-dresser or possibly a transvestite, appearing dressed in women's clothes at public events. . His contemporaries (28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is reputed to have had a predeliction for cross-dressing while in Crown office.As Lord Cornbury, he became Governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 to 1708. In 1707 the governor ordered prosecution of Rev. Francis Makemie, leader of the first Presbyterian synod in the new country, for preaching without a license (Makemie was acquitted but moved down the Delmarva Peninsula out of Lord Cornbury's jurisdiction). It is said that the governor's character and conduct were equally abhorred in both hemispheres Lord Clarendon was imprisoned for debt at the time of his father's death, when he succeeded as 3rd Earl of Clarendon. He was Envoy Extraordinary to Hanover in 1714. Lord Clarendon died at Chelsea in obscurity and in debt and was buried on 5 April 1723 in Westminster Abbey. Although his eldest son, Edward, Viscount Cornbury, Viscount Cornbury came to be fabled in historical literature as a moral profligate, sunk in corruption: possibly the worst governor Britain ever appointed to an American colony. The early accounts claim he took bribes and plundered the public treasury. Nineteenth century historian George Bancroft said that Cornbury illustrated the worst form of the English aristocracy's "arrogance, joined to intellectual imbecility". Later historians characterise him as a "degenerate and pervert who is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women's clothes", a "fop and a wastrel". He is said to have delivered a "flowery panegyric on his wife's ears" after which he invited every gentleman present to feel precisely how shell-like they were; to have misappropriated £1,500 meant for the defence of New York Harbor, and, scandalously, to have dressed in women's clothing and lurked "behind trees to pounce, shrieking with laughter, on his victims". Cornbury is reported to have opened the 1702 New York Assembly clad in a hooped gown and an elaborate headdress and carrying a fan, imitative of the style of Queen Anne. When his choice of clothing was questioned, he replied, "You are all very stupid people not to see the propriety of it all. In this place and occasion, I represent a woman (The Queen), and in all respects I ought to represent her as faithfully as I can." It is also said that in August 1707, when his wife Lady Cornbury died, His High Mightiness (as he preferred to be called) attended the funeral dressed as a woman. It was shortly after this that mounting complaints from colonists of his "numerous malpractices and misappropriations" prompted Queen Anne to remove Cornbury from office.[3] In a profile of Cornbury published in 2000, Professor Patricia U. Bonomi of New York University re-examined the charges against Cornbury and found them to be questionable, perhaps a product of factions engaged in politically motivated character assassination. In fact, perhaps due to the controversy surrounding Cornbury, the Crown decided to end the joint governorship of the New York and New Jersey colonies, designating in 1709 athat wanted Cornbury replaced with one of their own favorites. and based on very little evidence. |
http://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/100-most-dangerous-towns-new-jersey-0
highest violent crime rates - with the town name, its county and the number of violent crimes reported per 1,000 residents:
highest violent crime rates - with the town name, its county and the number of violent crimes reported per 1,000 residents:
- CAMDEN, Camden 25.4
- ATLANTIC CITY, Atlantic 17.7
- WILDWOOD, Cape May 17.1
- ASBURY PARK, Monmouth 16.6
- IRVINGTON, Essex 15.3
- BRIDGETON, Cumberland 13.5
- NEWARK, Essex 13.4
- TRENTON, Mercer 13.4
- ORANGE, Essex 12.3
- PATERSON, Passaic 10.7
- the State Police’s Uniform Crime Report - using 2013 statistics
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- population in prison 2014
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The state's Uniform Crime Report, an annual tally of crimes reported by all of the state's law enforcement agencies, showed the number of crimes including murder, armed robbery and other violent acts decreased from 25,452 in 2013 to 23,004 the following year.
The only category of violent crime that saw an increase in the number of recorded incidents was sex crimes, which authorities attributed to reforms resulting in "more comprehensive reporting" of offenses such as rape.
The report found the state's overall crime rate also decreased by eight percent compared to 2013.
The report, compiled by the state Department of Law and Public Safety, serves as an official tally with a lag time of nearly a year and a half. A spokesman for acting Attorney General Robert Lougy, Paul Loriquet, said vetting data from hundreds of police departments and performing analyses is a labor-intensive process.
More recent raw data is also posted regularly on the State Police's website.
Preliminary data for 2015 shows violent crime continued to fall last year, with 22,631 violent crimes reported, though the state's murder rate rose slightly.
There were 401 murders in 2013, 354 in 2014 and 357 in 2015, the data show.
"While crime rates can be influenced by any number of variables, there is no question that an important part of the equation is the skill and dedication of the men and women of our law enforcement community," Lougy said in a statement accompanying the report.
While New Jersey's crime rate has been on a downward trend over the past decade, violent crime persisted in the state's six major cities: Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Paterson, Trenton and Camden. But data in the new report showed it began to fall in 2014, with 9,436 reported incidents compared to 11,084 in 2013.
Attacks on police officers also fell, according to the report. There were 1,794 police officers assaulted in 2014, a decrease of 17 percent from 2013.
The 200-page report parses crimes across the state in a number of ways, including the average frequency of criminal acts. According to the 2014 "New Jersey Crime Clock," a crime occurs in the state every 2 minutes and 54 seconds
http://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-The 50 Safest Cities in New Jersey – 2015, Safewise.com
1) Chatham; 2) Washington Township (Morris County); 3) Bergenfield; 4) Bernards; 5) Wyckoff
1) Chatham; 2) Washington Township (Morris County); 3) Bergenfield; 4) Bernards; 5) Wyckoff
http://www.njsp.org/ucr/crime-reports.shtml
Our work locally is led by our Newark Joint Terrorism Task Force. The task force—made up of representatives of 34 local, state, and federal agencies—runs down any and all terrorism leads, develops and investigates cases, provides support for special events, and proactively identifies threats that may impact the area and the nation. See the Partnerships page for more information.
The work of the task force is bolstered by the Newark Field Intelligence Group, which centralizes and spearheads the analysis and sharing of terrorism-related intelligence (and intelligence on all major threats) both inside and outside the Bureau. The field intelligence group also joins with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the New Jersey State Police, and the Regional Operations and Intelligence Center (ROIC) hosted by the New Jersey State Police. Within the Newark Field Intelligence Group is the Newark component of the FBI Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships Program, a national alliance between private industry, academia, the FBI, and its counterintelligence community and other government partners to identify and protect projects of great importance to the U.S. government.
Reporting Crime
You can report suspicious activities and crime by contacting us using the information below. You can also submit a tip electronically. See When to Contact the FBI for more information.
FBI Newark
Claremont Tower
11 Centre Place
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 792-3000
Fax: (973) 792-3035
Hours
We can be reached by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our walk-in hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 4:45 p.m.
Satellite Offices
https://www.fbi.gov/newark/contact-us/contact
Along with our main office in Newark, we have five satellite offices, or “resident agencies,” in the area. The Newark Division covers all counties in New Jersey, with the exception of Camden, Gloucester, and Salem, which are covered by the Philadelphia Division. Visit the links below for specific contact information and counties covered:
The work of the task force is bolstered by the Newark Field Intelligence Group, which centralizes and spearheads the analysis and sharing of terrorism-related intelligence (and intelligence on all major threats) both inside and outside the Bureau. The field intelligence group also joins with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the New Jersey State Police, and the Regional Operations and Intelligence Center (ROIC) hosted by the New Jersey State Police. Within the Newark Field Intelligence Group is the Newark component of the FBI Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships Program, a national alliance between private industry, academia, the FBI, and its counterintelligence community and other government partners to identify and protect projects of great importance to the U.S. government.
Reporting Crime
You can report suspicious activities and crime by contacting us using the information below. You can also submit a tip electronically. See When to Contact the FBI for more information.
FBI Newark
Claremont Tower
11 Centre Place
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 792-3000
Fax: (973) 792-3035
Hours
We can be reached by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our walk-in hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 4:45 p.m.
Satellite Offices
https://www.fbi.gov/newark/contact-us/contact
Along with our main office in Newark, we have five satellite offices, or “resident agencies,” in the area. The Newark Division covers all counties in New Jersey, with the exception of Camden, Gloucester, and Salem, which are covered by the Philadelphia Division. Visit the links below for specific contact information and counties covered: