New Jersey State Police, with the help of an informant, arrested Jahmell W. Crockam, 19, in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A source told News 4 New York that a State Police SWAT team made the arrest in Camden, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.
State Police call their unit TEAMS, for Tactical Emergency and Mission Specialists. They apparently moved in after Crockam was dropped off at a house in Camden.
News 4 New York has also learned from sources that police now believe that the Bloods gang– of which the alleged suspect in the murder of a Lakewood cop is believed to have belonged to–has ordered its members to attack law enforcement officers in more assassination attempts.
According to a source, leadership of the Bloods gang reacted to the dragnet that police initially put out to find Crockam following the Friday murder of Lakewood N.J. officer Christopher Matlosz.
Police have been warned to be alert for other Bloods gang members attempting to retaliate for the manhunt by targeting lawmen for additional killings.
Lawmen from multiple agencies were involved in the hunt for Crockam, and the source indicates that the gang reacted to intense pressure its members got to turn on one of their own. Thus, lawmen believe, the order to kill more police.
Matlosz, a 27-year-old from Toms River, was shot in the head and rushed to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune where he was pronounced dead.
The officer was questioning Crockam when he pulled a handgun from his clothing and fired three bullets into the officer in what the county prosecutor called “a heinous, execution-style killing.”
(Source: NBC News)
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Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford described Crockam’s arrest as “very quick and immediate.”
When questioned, Lynch Ford would not comment about Crockam’s alleged gang
affiliation.
“We have gone to the parameters of what we were ethically permitted to say,” Lynch Ford said