10/25/2021- 7:18 p.m.
A man wearing body armor was arrested Sunday morning after he was involved in a crash in Mantoloking and respoding police officers allegedly found several guns and ammunition in his car, police said.
Mantoloking Patrolman Logan LaRue was called to a single-vehicle crash on Route 35 near the 1200 block of the borough at 3:02 a.m. and arrested Jeremy W. Barringer, 46, of Toms River, after seeing the contents of his car, which allegedly included a loaded AR-15 rifle, three high capacity magazines with hollow point bullets and a loaded 9mm handgun with additional magazines loaded with hollow point rounds, according to a statement from the department.
Barringer was charged with multiple weapons-related offenses including unlawful possession of a rifle and possession of a weapon after being a convicted sex offender, the department said.
According to New Jersey State Police records, he was convicted of sexual assault in Missouri in 1999 after he “approached young women on the street, entered their homes and sexually assaulted them.”
He was lodged in the Ocean County Jail and additional charges were pending Monday afternoon, police said.
