Joseph Kling is a 19-year-old from Ocean Township (Waretown), N.J., who’s facing aggravated arson charges in connection with a wildfire that broke out in Waretown on April 22, 2025, according to ...

Joseph Kling, the Waretown man accused of starting the Jones Road wildfire, is shown during an early disposition conference before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan at the Ocean County Courthouse ...

Kling was taken into custody at Ocean Township police headquarters and brought to the Ocean County Jail. Joseph Kling, 19, was charged with arson in connection with the New Jersey wildfires.

Joseph Kling, 19, was charged with arson and aggravated arson in connection to the Jones Road wildfire. Investigators determined that an improperly extinguished bonfire was the cause of the ...

Joseph Kling, 19, was charged with aggravated arson and arson on April 23 in connection with the blaze in Wareton, which burned 15,300 acres as it spread through the southern Ocean County area ...

Joseph Kling, 19, of Waretown, facing aggravated arson and arson charges in connection to the NJ wildfire, appears for his virtual first appearance from the Ocean County Jail before Judge James J ...

Joseph Kling, 19, of Ocean Township, NJ, is charged with aggravated arson and arson in connection to the massive Jones Road wildfire.

After a court appearance on Monday, Joseph Kling, the 19-year-old suspect in last month’s massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, defended himself, insisting he was the first of a group of ...

The teen accompanied Joseph Kling, 19, of Waretown, into the Natural Lands Trust’s Forked River Mountains Wilderness Area, creating a bonfire using wooden pallets that was not properly ...