{"id":3698,"date":"2015-03-01T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:50:56","slug":"humane-police-to-investigate-death-of-dog-in-sunken-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/humane-police-to-investigate-death-of-dog-in-sunken-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Humane Police to Investigate Death of Dog In Sunken Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3690\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3546-0.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3690\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3546-0-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A crack in the ice on the Toms River where a vehicle fell through, Feb. 28, 2015. (USCG Photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3546-0-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3546-0-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crack in the ice on the Toms River where a vehicle fell through, Feb. 28, 2015. (USCG Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s humane police, the law enforcement arm of the NJ SPCA, will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a dog inside a truck that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/submerged-vehicle-found-in-toms-river-after-10-hour-search\/\">sunk in the Toms River<\/a> after it was driven onto the ice by a 27-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Rick Yokum said in a statement Sunday night that the dog, a boxer mix, was found dead by state police divers Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NJSPCA responded and is investigating the death of this dog,&#8221; said Yokum.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup truck was the subject of a 10 hour-long search by police, who were called to the banks of the river after witnesses saw the vehicle drive onto the ice and do &#8220;donuts&#8221; in the middle of the river. Around midnight, police officers lost sight of the vehicle&#8217;s headlights and brake lights, prompting the search.<\/p>\n<p>Two people voluntarily turned themselves into police Sunday afternoon; the car was found Sunday morning around 10:20 a.m. with no one inside, except the deceased dog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/humane-police-to-investigate-death-of-dog-in-sunken-truck\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey&#8217;s humane police, the law enforcement arm of the NJ SPCA, will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a dog inside a truck that sunk in the Toms River after it was driven onto the ice by a 27-year-old man. Capt. Rick Yokum said in a statement Sunday night that the dog, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3690,"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":[1039,24,1037,100],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-pine-beach","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3546-0.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-XE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}