{"id":1534,"date":"2014-10-20T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:54:03","slug":"toms-river-cops-nab-ex-rapper-in-kidnapping-domestic-violance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/toms-river-cops-nab-ex-rapper-in-kidnapping-domestic-violance-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Cops Nab Ex-Rapper in Kidnapping, Domestic Violance Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rozel<\/a>

Rozel Foster (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toms River police have arrested a township man in connection with the kidnapping and assault of his girlfriend earlier this month.<\/p>\n

While conducting surveillance of a residence on Breckenridge Place over the weekend, Rozel Foster, 21, was observed entering a home, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. Officers secured a perimeter and, soon after, took him into custody. He was booked into the Ocean County Jail on Sunday, records show.<\/p>\n

Foster, 21, is accused of carrying on a domestic violence incident over the course of several days, assaulting his 20-year-old girlfriend beginning on Oct 2. He repeatedly assaulted her with punches, slaps, pushes, bites, and strangulation, police said.<\/p>\n

The initial search for Foster included a slew of police officers, K9 units and even a New Jersey State Police helicopter.<\/p>\n

Foster was previously known as rapper \u201cZel Khalil,\u201d<\/a> \u2013 Khalil is his middle name, according to jail records \u2013 and was once featured in a \u201cWho\u2019s Next\u201d rap battle contest<\/a> on New York City hip-hop station Hot97.<\/p>\n

\u201cKill \u2019em with the charm,\u201d Foster raps in one his songs, Diamond Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s bail has been set at $200,000, and he is currently lodged in the Ocean County Jail. In addition to the more serious charges, Toms River cops also processed him on a $1,022 warrant from Pemberton Township, a $1,000 warrant from Freehold Township, and $350 warrant from Jackson, police said.<\/p>\n

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Toms River police have arrested a township man in connection with the kidnapping and assault of his girlfriend earlier this month. While conducting surveillance of a residence on Breckenridge Place over the weekend, Rozel Foster, 21, was observed entering a home, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. Officers secured a perimeter and, soon after, took him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1535,"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":false,"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":[24,437],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-rozel-foster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/foster1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-oK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}