{"id":14605,"date":"2019-04-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=14605"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:00:44","slug":"lakewood-police-officer-forced-to-shoot-aggressive-pit-bull-while-seeking-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/04\/lakewood-police-officer-forced-to-shoot-aggressive-pit-bull-while-seeking-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakewood Police Officer Forced to Shoot &#8216;Aggressive&#8217; Pit Bull While Seeking Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg\" alt=\"The Lakewood, N.J. police shield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-290x195.jpg 290w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakewood, N.J. police shield.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Lakewood police officer was uninjured \u2013 and a dog he was forced to shoot is expected to make a full recovery \u2013 following an incident that occurred Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Lakewood police were attempting to locate a male wanted by Manchester police for a violation of a final restraining order and stalking at a sober living facility adjacent to All Saints Episcopal Church in Lakewood.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of trying to locate the male, at about 5 p.m., a Lakewood police officer encountered what was described as an aggressive pit bull that ran towards the officer. The officer discharged his weapon and wounded the dog, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The dog was transported by Lakewood EMS to a local veterinary hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The officer was not harmed.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has not been apprehended and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/04\/lakewood-police-officer-forced-to-shoot-aggressive-pit-bull-while-seeking-suspect\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lakewood police officer was uninjured \u2013 and a dog he was forced to shoot is expected to make a full recovery \u2013 following an incident that occurred Wednesday. According to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Lakewood police were attempting to locate a male wanted by Manchester police for a violation of a final restraining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"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":[24,57,3684,3685],"class_list":["post-14605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-lakewood","tag-lakewood-police","tag-pit-bull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3Nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605","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=14605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}