{"id":18244,"date":"2021-06-04T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18244"},"modified":"2021-06-04T03:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:11:53","slug":"bomb-threat-led-to-point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/06\/bomb-threat-led-to-point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Threat Led to Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk Evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16417\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16417\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bomb scare led to the evacuation of the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach Thursday afternoon, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to borough police, the department received a call at 1:15 p.m. for the report of a business employee receiving a bomb threat via telephone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of this agency, with the assistance of several other law enforcement agencies immediately evacuated the boardwalk, beach and all boardwalk businesses,\u201d a statement from the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Several bomb detection K9 teams were called in to search the boardwalk, the department said. At approximately 4 p.m., the area was determined to be safe and the boardwalk reopened to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an active investigation being handled by detectives from this department,\u201d the statement said.<\/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\/06\/bomb-threat-led-to-point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk-evacuation\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bomb scare led to the evacuation of the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach Thursday afternoon, officials confirmed. According to borough police, the department received a call at 1:15 p.m. for the report of a business employee receiving a bomb threat via telephone. \u201cMembers of this agency, with the assistance of several other law enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16417,"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":[1354,24,16,4037],"class_list":["post-18244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-bomb-threat","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-point-pleasant-beach","tag-point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4Kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244","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=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}