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On Wednesday, Oct. 26, at approximately 10:55 p.m., multiple police units were dispatched to Dugan Lane for a reported suspicious vehicle and theft in progress, Toms River police said.
The caller said that the catalytic converter to his SUV had just been cut and that the suspects' vehicle, a large white box truck with a loading ramp on the tailgate, was last seen heading toward Lakewood.
Numerous patrol units in the area quickly located the box truck and conducted a motor vehicle stop at New Hampshire Avenue and Church Road, police said.
A search warrant was approved and the subsequent search of the vehicle yielded two catalytic converters, a Sawzall, multiple Sawzall blades, a handgun with a 30-round magazine and hollow point ammunition.
Ravene Johns, 25, and Malik Williams, 21, both of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, were arrested and charged with criminal mischief, receiving stolen property, weapons offenses, and theft of property, police said.
Additional charges are pending.
They were being held in the Ocean County Jail.
The incident is under investigation by Detective Joseph Mastronardy.
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