{"id":10772,"date":"2017-04-06T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:12:47","slug":"suspected-heroin-dealer-charged-in-death-of-brick-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/04\/suspected-heroin-dealer-charged-in-death-of-brick-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Heroin Dealer Charged in Death of Brick Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10773\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy Baker\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker-336x420.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Baker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A local man already incarcerated on charges of dealing drugs is facing manslaughter charges in the drug-induced death of a Brick man.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Baker, 26, of Jackson, allegedly sold.a deadly dose of drugs to\u00a0Thomas Palazzolo, 26, of Brick.\u00a0Palazzolo died Jan. 27, after attempts by police to revive him failed after a 911 call was placed, reporting him unresponsive on his bedroom floor.<\/p>\n<p>Baker has been lodged in the Ocean County Jail since Jan. 31 on prior drug charges.<\/p>\n<p>After Palazzolo was found to have died,\u00a0officers on scene, observing signs of a drug overdose, immediately, per the Prosecutor\u2019s directive, contacted the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Major Crimes Unit and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Criminal Investigations Unit to respond, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office. The ensuing intensive investigation would ultimately lead back to Baker and link him to Palazzolo\u2019s overdose death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy by the Ocean County Medical Examiner would confirm that Palazzolo\u2019s death was drug induced, said Della Fave.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Brian Farnkopf of Brick Township Police Department and OCPO Major Crimes Unit Detective John Carroll signed criminal complaints against Baker for strict liability drug induced death, possession of heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin.<\/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\/04\/suspected-heroin-dealer-charged-in-death-of-brick-man\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local man already incarcerated on charges of dealing drugs is facing manslaughter charges in the drug-induced death of a Brick man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10773,"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":[3],"tags":[63,2846,2845],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-heroin","tag-thomas-palazzolo","tag-timothy-baker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baker.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","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=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}