{"id":4838,"date":"2015-05-28T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:37:19","slug":"ocean-county-mall-bomb-threat-may-have-been-part-of-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/05\/ocean-county-mall-bomb-threat-may-have-been-part-of-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean County Mall Bomb Threat May Have Been Part of Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4839\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocmall.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4839\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocmall-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean County Mall (Photo: Simon)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocmall-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocmall-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean County Mall (Photo: Simon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Investigators are looking into whether a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the Ocean County Mall Wednesday night was the third in a string of similar threats.<\/p>\n<p>The mall\u2019s office staff received a call at 7 p.m., with the person on the line stating that there was a bomb inside of the building and that \u201cpeople were going to get hurt,\u201d said Ralph Stocco, Toms River Police spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of caution the mall was evacuated and a command post set up in the parking lot,\u201d Stocco said.<\/p>\n<p>A specially trained explosive sniffing K9 Task Force was activated and a systematic search of the mall took place; the building was deemed safe around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Stocco said detectives are now investigating whether the Ocean County Mall threat could be connected to similar bomb threats that were called into a mall in Deptford Township and a hospital in Plainsboro Township around the same time.<\/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\/05\/ocean-county-mall-bomb-threat-may-have-been-part-of-pattern\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators are looking into whether a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the Ocean County Mall Wednesday night was the third in a string of similar threats. The mall\u2019s office staff received a call at 7 p.m., with the person on the line stating that there was a bomb inside of the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4839,"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":[1354,24,332],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-bomb-threat","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-ocean-county-mall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocmall.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}