{"id":10523,"date":"2017-03-01T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:20:31","slug":"county-sheriffs-k9-officer-arrested-accused-of-taking-cocaine-from-evidence-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/03\/county-sheriffs-k9-officer-arrested-accused-of-taking-cocaine-from-evidence-locker\/","title":{"rendered":"County Sheriff&#8217;s K9 Officer Arrested, Accused of Taking Cocaine From Evidence Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_603\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"size-large wp-image-603\" src=\"http:\/\/tomsriver.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean County Sheriff's Department vehicle. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department vehicle. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department officer who legally obtained cocaine to train his canine partner began obtaining the substance illegally, authorities charged Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. John C. Adams, 40, of Toms River, is facing charges of official misconduct, second degree theft and third degree possession of cocaine, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from an investigation conducted by investigators from the prosecutor\u2019s office, Sheriff\u2019s Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Federal Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, Della Fave said. The investigation revealed that on May 15, 2015, Adams, who was assigned to the K9\u00a0Unit, legitimately came into possession of cocaine for the purpose of training canines to detect the drug. He worked within the unit as a certified canine handler and a certified canine handler instructor, Della Fave said.<\/p>\n<p>Between May 15, 2015 and February 11, 2017, authorities said cocaine was determined to be missing from the location within the Sheriff\u2019s Department where it was kept for periodic training. A subsequent investigation alleges that Adams had diverted the cocaine to his own personal use.<\/p>\n<p>Adams surrendered himself at noon Wednesday\u00a0at the Toms River Police Department. He was issued his complaint summons and the court\u00a0will schedule his first appearance, Della Fave said. Adams is presently suspended from his position with the Sheriff\u2019s Department. He has been an employee of the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department since July 2000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/03\/county-sheriffs-k9-officer-arrested-accused-of-taking-cocaine-from-evidence-locker\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department officer who legally obtained cocaine to train his canine partner began obtaining the substance illegally, authorities charged Wednesday. Lt. John C. Adams, 40, of Toms River, is facing charges of official misconduct, second degree theft and third degree possession of cocaine, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[24,74,204,2777,100],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-cocaine","tag-ocean-county-sheriffs-department","tag-officer-arrested","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2JJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}