{"id":18147,"date":"2021-05-11T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:18:45","slug":"brick-police-arrest-two-in-drug-investigation-near-fast-food-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/05\/brick-police-arrest-two-in-drug-investigation-near-fast-food-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Police Arrest Two in Drug Investigation Near Fast Food Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18148\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anderson.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"Rashad Anderson (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anderson.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anderson-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashad Anderson (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brick Township Police Department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit arrested two local residents stemming from an investigation into what is described as \u201csuspicious drug activity\u201d in the area of the McDonald\u2019s restaurant, located at 191 Van Zile Road.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place May 7 at about 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ptl. Victoria Finelli, on location, Melissa A. Esper, 27, of Brick, was charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of paraphernalia and obstruction. She was also issued multiple motor vehicle citations. Esper was released on a summons.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant for more serious offenses was issued for Rashad Anderson, 34, of Lakewood, for \u201cinvolvement in the case,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, distribution of crack cocaine, obstruction and endangering the welfare of a child. Anderson was also issued multiple traffic citations. Anderson later turned himself into authorities and is currently being lodged in Ocean County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Only Anderson\u2019s photograph was available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/05\/brick-police-arrest-two-in-drug-investigation-near-fast-food-restaurant\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brick Township Police Department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit arrested two local residents stemming from an investigation into what is described as \u201csuspicious drug activity\u201d in the area of the McDonald\u2019s restaurant, located at 191 Van Zile Road. The incident took place May 7 at about 5:40 p.m. According to Ptl. Victoria Finelli, on location, Melissa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18148,"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":[4418,4417,4416],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-mcdonalds","tag-melissa-a-esper","tag-rashad-anderson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anderson.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","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=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}