{"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>\u201cWithin hours of posting the suspects photo on our police Facebook page, as well as with numerous media outlets, we had him identified,\u201d 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>\u201cWithout the help of citizens as well as the popularity of social media many of these criminals would possibly have evaded capture,\u201d Stocco said. \u201cWe strongly value our partnership with the community.\u201d<\/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. \u201cWithin hours of posting the suspects photo on our police Facebook page, as well as with numerous media outlets, we had him identified,\u201d said Toms River police 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