NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Feb. 13 (ZFJ) — Multiple people were arrested in New Brunswick, N.J., within the past few weeks by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
In a press conference on Jan. 30, New Labor, an immigrant advocate organization, reported that they received about eight calls via the rapid response hotline as well as Facebook about ICE activity in the city. When rapid responders arrived, federal officers had already left.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 19 (ZFJ) — Seven people have been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking ring involving Rutgers University students, announced the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office on Dec. 5.
Operation RU Pharm was an undercover narcotics operation led by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force and assisted by the Rutgers University Police Department, New Brunswick Police Department, and Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
The operation, lasting several months, uncovered “a closed and private social media network” that Rutgers students used to buy and sell narcotics.
