Prosecutor's office starts "Guns for Cash" program

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By NANCY SHIELDS • STAFF WRITER •

ASBURY PARK — The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office will hold a "Guns for Cash" firearms exchange program today, Saturday and Sunday.

The program will be held at the Asbury Park Police Department on Main Street from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. People can turn in certain types of unwanted weapons for the following cash payments: $25 for shotguns or rifles, $50 for handguns and $100 for assault weapons, according to a release from the prosecutor's office.

The program is anonymous and voluntary, and people are allowed to transport the weapons to the police station without a gun permit. Weapons should not be concealed but unloaded and in a gun case or sealed container, the prosecutor's office said.

Ammunition, replicas, and BB and pellet guns may also be surrendered, but no compensation will be given for those items. Licensed firearms dealers are not eligible to participate.

Asbury Park officials, and specifically Councilman Kevin Sanders, asked the county to hold a new guns-for-cash program after the recent shooting of 16-year-old Jason Glisson on June 30 at Bangs and Ridge avenues. A 19-year-old Neptune man, Taj Williams, has been charged with the murder.

For more information about the program, call Capt. Brian Rubino at 732-751-2203.