{"id":14922,"date":"2019-07-08T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=14922"},"modified":"2019-07-08T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:00:01","slug":"bizarre-investigation-revealed-guns-500-pound-pig-in-toms-river-mans-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/07\/bizarre-investigation-revealed-guns-500-pound-pig-in-toms-river-mans-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Investigation Revealed Guns, 500-Pound Pig in Toms River Man&#8217;s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/tomsriver.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)\" width=\"829\" height=\"618\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bizarre investigation began unfolding in Toms River first thing Monday morning, when a man came to the police station at about 7 a.m. to tell officers that he believed he had a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>While police were investigating, they found a loaded shotgun serving \u201cno legitimate purpose\u201d in vehicle of the man, identified as Joseph Kelly, of Egret Drive, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was charged and later transported to a local hospital for a medical evaluation, said police spokeswoman Jillian Messina.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon statements Kelly made during detention, his residence on Egret Drive was checked by police for the safety of any additional occupants, a statement from the department said.\u00a0 The residence was found to be vacant, however additional weapons and ammunition were located inside.<\/p>\n<p>According to Messina, due to the \u201cunknown age and condition of some of the located munitions,\u201d the New Jersey State Police Bomb Unit responded and assisted in their removal as a precautionary measure. The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office also assisted in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Egret Drive had been closed for several hours, but has since been reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the odd encounter, Toms River Animal Control removed a 500-pound pig from Kelly\u2019s residence to keep safe.<\/p>\n<p>There were no threats to the public at any time, police said, adding that the investigation is continuing and additional charges may be filed.<\/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\/07\/bizarre-investigation-revealed-guns-500-pound-pig-in-toms-river-mans-house\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bizarre investigation began unfolding in Toms River first thing Monday morning, when a man came to the police station at about 7 a.m. to tell officers that he believed he had a warrant for his arrest. While police were investigating, they found a loaded shotgun serving \u201cno legitimate purpose\u201d in vehicle of the man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"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":[116,3742,100],"class_list":["post-14922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-arrested","tag-joseph-kelly","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3SG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922","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=14922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}