{"id":22329,"date":"2023-06-09T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=22329"},"modified":"2023-06-09T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:03:51","slug":"large-amount-of-heroin-cocaine-and-cash-seized-by-brick-detectives-resident-27-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/06\/large-amount-of-heroin-cocaine-and-cash-seized-by-brick-detectives-resident-27-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Large Amount&#8217; of Heroin, Cocaine and Cash Seized by Brick Detectives; Resident, 27, Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22330\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wheeler.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wheeler.jpg\" alt=\"Ezra Wheeler, 27, of Brick (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wheeler.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wheeler-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ezra Wheeler, 27, of Brick (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police say detectives from the department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit concluded a lengthy investigation Thursday with the execution of three search warrants, yielding quantities of drugs and cash, culminating with the arrest of a township resident.<\/p>\n<p>The warrants were executed at a residence on Coventry Court, Sgt. Jim Kelly said. The residential search yielded 250 wax folds of heroin and a \u201clarge amount\u201d of crack cocaine that, when included with the amount of crack cocaine seized from the suspect\u2019s vehicle equaled over 100 grams. In addition to the drugs, an undisclosed amount of cash in the tens of thousands of dollars was also seized, along with a digital scale.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Ezra Wheeler, 27, of Brick, was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine, possession of heroin, intent to distribute cocaine and intent to distribute heroin. Wheeler\u2019s charges were placed on a summons and he was lodged in Ocean County Jail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/06\/large-amount-of-heroin-cocaine-and-cash-seized-by-brick-detectives-resident-27-charged\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick police say detectives from the department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit concluded a lengthy investigation Thursday with the execution of three search warrants, yielding quantities of drugs and cash, culminating with the arrest of a township resident. The warrants were executed at a residence on Coventry Court, Sgt. Jim Kelly said. The residential search yielded 250 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22330,"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":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":[24,74,73,4978,4484,63],"class_list":["post-22329","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-ezra-wheeler","tag-featured","tag-heroin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wheeler.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5O9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22329","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=22329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}