Police arrest NJ 'cop killer' ASSOCIATED PRESS Last Updated: 12:26 PM, January 16, 2011 Posted: 8:39 AM, January 16, 2011 Comments: 62     More Print LAKEWOOD, N.J. — A frenzied manhunt for a suspected cop killer ended early this morning in the bedroom of a Camden apartment, where a SWAT team arrested the 19-year-old suspect without incident. Just over 38 hours after Lakewood Patrolman Christopher Matlosz was gunned down behind the wheel of his patrol car, a 15-member task force of State Police and U.S. Marshal's officers surrounded an apartment where a tipster told police they could find the suspect, Jahmell W. Crockam. "We were able to get consent for entry, and it was over very quickly," said State Police Major Edward Cetnar. "He was upstairs in the bedroom."   Ten of the officers raced into the apartment and quickly arrested Crockam at 6:30 a.m., who did not put up any resistance. He did not seem surprised that authorities had tracked him down, Cetnar said. "He was very quiet," Cetnar said. Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford said detectives got information that Crockam had fled to Camden and was hiding in a unit of the Crestbury Apartments on South 8th Street. "This concludes a massive effort by law enforcement to apprehend a person we feel is responsible for the death of Officer Matlosz," Ford said. "The arrest of this suspect now allows the Lakewood Police Department and the family and friends of Officer Matlosz an opportunity to grieve, to give tribute to their colleague, friend and loved one." State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said all law enforcement officers were affected by the killing. "There's no joy in catching an accused cop killer, only the satisfaction of knowing that no one rested until the job was done," he said. Crockam was charged yesterday with murder and weapons offenses. The suspect had already been returned to Lakewood, booked in police headquarters, then transferred to the Ocean County Jail in Toms River. He is expected to be brought before a judge on Tuesday. A judge has already set bail for him at $5 million, with no opportunity to post 10 percent of that amount in cash to gain his release. "It's a bittersweet time right now," said Lakewood Mayor Menashe P. Miller. "We are all thrilled to have removed this cold-blooded murderer off the street. But at the same time, there's a grieving fiancee, and a mother has to bury her son." The prosecutor also credited tips from the public with helping locate the suspect, calling them "the real heroes in this." Crockam, whose street name is "Sav," — short for "Savage" — had fled to Camden, a poor city on the opposite side of the state, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. A dragnet encompassing at least three states and more than 100 officers had been searching for him since the shooting Friday at 4 p.m.     Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/police_arrest_suspect_in_nj_cop_LjmqklyGraltxYBVuARe3H#ixzz1BWcGIImh