{"id":5503,"date":"2015-07-15T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2015-07-15T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:03:53","slug":"lakewood-man-arrested-in-ocean-county-mall-touching-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/07\/lakewood-man-arrested-in-ocean-county-mall-touching-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakewood Man Arrested in Ocean County Mall &#8216;Touching&#8217; Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5504\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5504\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Proto (Photo: TRPD)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Proto (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police have arrested a 68-year-old man and charged him with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/07\/police-seeking-to-id-man-who-cornered-touched-girl-in-o-c-mall\/\">cornering and touching an 18-year-old female<\/a> employee at a store in the Ocean County Mall earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within hours of posting the suspects photo on our police Facebook page, as well as with numerous media outlets, we had him identified,&#8221; said Toms River police spokesman Ralph Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Proto, 68, of Inverness Court in Lakewood, was arrested Tuesday evening at his home at approximately 8 p.m.\u00a0 The initial posting of his image online was done around 1:30 p.m.\u00a0 He was charged with criminal sexual contact and is being held in the Ocean County Jail on $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>Proto is charged with cornering the young woman in the store where she worked on Monday, forcing himself on her, hugging her and touching her breasts, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The latest arrest comes on the heels of an arrest in a bank robbery where the suspect was also identified through the press and social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without the help of citizens as well as the popularity of social media many of these criminals would possibly have evaded capture,&#8221; Stocco said. &#8220;We strongly value our partnership with the community.&#8221;<\/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\/07\/lakewood-man-arrested-in-ocean-county-mall-touching-case\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a 68-year-old man and charged him with cornering and touching an 18-year-old female employee at a store in the Ocean County Mall earlier this week. &#8220;Within hours of posting the suspects photo on our police Facebook page, as well as with numerous media outlets, we had him identified,&#8221; said Toms River police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5504,"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":[1517,24,1518,332],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-anthony-proto","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-criminal-sexual-contact","tag-ocean-county-mall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Proto-Anthony.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}