Newark, NJ – Two arrested with handgun after stop and charge one with pointing gun at a woman – both FREE TO GO under NJ Bail Reform

Yasin Calloway and Jamal Johnson, both 36-year-old Newark residents, were each charged with weapons offenses after police received a tip that a gun was seen inside a van.

Officers responded to the tip and pulled over a van matching the description. Inside the van, officers saw a loaded .40 caliber handgun. Both Calloway and Johnson were arrested. Calloway was also charged with pointing a gun at a woman earlier in the day during an argument.

Calloway and Johnson were release and FREE TO GO after the “Pretrial Risk Assessment” tool determined that they were not a danger to the community or a flight risk and therefore should not be subject to any accountable release – just a “promise” to appear.


Another “validated pretrial risk assessment” Failure.

New Jersey Bail Reform, Risk Assessments, and Pretrial Release Services…

  • ZERO Accountability
  • ZERO Deterrent
  • ZERO Supervision
  • ZERO concern for victims
  • ZERO Bail…just a “pinky promise” to return
  • Bail Reform – Dangerous, Reckless, and a Taxpayer Burden



Loaded guns seized, 3 charged in separate arrests, police say

(reported by NJ.com – June 8 2017)

Police seized two loaded handguns and arrested three Newark men in separate incidents Tuesday, including one man who was accused of threatening a woman with a gun, authorities said.

Newark detectives with the Special Enforcement Bureau saw Laquan Jackson, 33, with a loaded 9mm handgun around 7 a.m. at the Riverview Court housing complex, according to city Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose. Jackson, a Newark resident, also allegedly had a Ziplock bag of marijuana.

Police arrested Jackson without incident on weapons and drug offenses, authorities said.

In another arrest, a tipster reported seeing a man with a gun inside a van near Johnson and Clinton Avenue around 12:40 p.m., Ambrose said in a statement. 

Officers stopped the van and saw a loaded .40 caliber handgun in the vehicle, police said. The men in the vehicle, Yasin Calloway and Jamal Johnson, both 36-year-old Newark residents, were each charged with weapons offenses.

Calloway was also accused of pointing a gun at a woman near Madison and Shanley avenues during an argument earlier that day, authorities said. He was charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threats charges in that incident.

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You’ve been LIED to New Jersey…NJ Bail Reform is RECKLESS, DANGEROUS, and YOU are PAYING for it.

Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.


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