{"id":18289,"date":"2021-06-15T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T01:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18289"},"modified":"2021-06-15T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T01:18:46","slug":"brick-man-lakewood-woman-charged-with-drug-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/06\/brick-man-lakewood-woman-charged-with-drug-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Man, Lakewood Woman Charged With Drug Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18290\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18290\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Taishaun Cosme and Janice Rivera. (Photos: OCPO)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG-1160x653.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taishaun Cosme and Janice Rivera. (Photos: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A month-long investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office into drug distribution activity in the northern portion of the county resulted in the arrest of a Brick man and a Lakewood woman.<\/p>\n<p>Taishaun Cosme, 26, of Brick Township, and Janice Rivera, 33, of Lakewood Township, were charged after investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in Lakewood June 8. According to a statement from prosecutors, law enforcement seized approximately 10 grams of cocaine, a \u201clarge quantity of materials indicative of illegal drug distribution,\u201d a digital scale, and $4,700 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Cosme and Rivera are both charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute less than a half-ounce, simple possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. The pair were processed and released on a summons pending a future court appearance.<\/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\/brick-man-lakewood-woman-charged-with-drug-distribution\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month-long investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office into drug distribution activity in the northern portion of the county resulted in the arrest of a Brick man and a Lakewood woman. Taishaun Cosme, 26, of Brick Township, and Janice Rivera, 33, of Lakewood Township, were charged after investigators executed a search warrant at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18290,"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":[24,74,73,3631,3941],"class_list":["post-18289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-distribution","tag-janice-rivera","tag-taishaun-cosme"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1HB8KSrG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4KZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289","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=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}