{"id":18293,"date":"2021-06-16T20:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18293"},"modified":"2021-06-16T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:05:47","slug":"brick-man-arrested-for-distributing-possessing-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/06\/brick-man-arrested-for-distributing-possessing-child-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Man Arrested for Distributing, Possessing Child Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18294\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Contreras.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Contreras.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Castaneda-Contreras (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Contreras.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Contreras-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Castaneda-Contreras (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brick man has been charged with possessing images of child pornography on multiple electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Castaneda-Contreras, 33, of Brick, was charged Wednesday with both distributing and possessing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation that ended in Castaneda-Contreras\u2019s arrest was the result of a referral from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through the New Jersey State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which identified a person in Ocean County as distributing Child Pornography via the Internet, a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said. An investigation by Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office High Tech Crime Unit identified a residence in Brick Township as the source of the uploaded images of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, detectives from the office\u2019s High Tech Crime Unit and Brick Township Police Department executed a court-authorized search warrant on Castaneda-Contreras\u2019 residence in Brick. As a result, they seized \u201cmultiple electronic devices that contained images of child pornography,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Castaneda-Contreras was arrested at his place of employment in Middletown, Monmouth County. He was processed at Brick Township police headquarters and transported to the Ocean County Jail where he is currently lodged pending a detention hearing.<\/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-arrested-for-distributing-possessing-child-pornography\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brick man has been charged with possessing images of child pornography on multiple electronic devices. Luis Castaneda-Contreras, 33, of Brick, was charged Wednesday with both distributing and possessing child pornography. The investigation that ended in Castaneda-Contreras\u2019s arrest was the result of a referral from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18294,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[24,4448],"class_list":["post-18293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-luis-castaneda-contreras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Contreras.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4L3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293","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=18293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}