{"id":22134,"date":"2023-05-09T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=22134"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:56:48","slug":"brick-police-bust-drug-operation-following-lengthy-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/05\/brick-police-bust-drug-operation-following-lengthy-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Police Bust Drug Operation Following ‘Lengthy’ Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Township police say they have arrested two men in connection with an investigation into drug distribution in the local area, which culminated in search warrants being executed at two township residences.<\/p>\n

According to Ptl. Victoria Finelli, the department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit (SCU) concluded a \u201clengthy drug investigation with the execution of two residential search warrants\u201d on May 3. The SCU was assisted by the Ocean County Narcotics Strike Force and the Lakewood Street Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n

The Special Emergency Response Team, Brick\u2019s designation for what is often referred to as a SWAT team, executed the search warrants \u2013 the first on Isadora Court, a condominium complex off Herborn Avenue, and the second on Sawmill Road, a complex off Herbertsville Road. Finelli said crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a digital scale were recovered during the investigation.<\/p>\n

As a result of the investigation, Thomas Quran, 44, of Brick, was charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of heroin, intent to distribute crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and tampering with evidence. Quran was arrested and lodged in Ocean County Jail, though he was not listed as an inmate there on Tuesday. Michael Sorresso, 54, of Brick, was arrested and charged with possession of heroin. Sorresso was released on a summons.<\/p>\n

No photos of the suspects were available.<\/p>\n

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Brick Township police say they have arrested two men in connection with an investigation into drug distribution in the local area, which culminated in search warrants being executed at two township residences. According to Ptl. Victoria Finelli, the department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit (SCU) concluded a \u201clengthy drug investigation with the execution of two residential search […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"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":"Brick Police Bust Drug Operation Following 'Lengthy' Investigation","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[24,129,3254,4484,4950,4069,4949],"class_list":["post-22134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-police-department","tag-drug-bust","tag-featured","tag-michael-sorresso","tag-street-crimes-unit","tag-thomas-quran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5L0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134","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=22134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}