{"id":5778,"date":"2015-08-12T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:21:08","slug":"toth-criminal-charges-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/toth-criminal-charges-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Toth: Criminal Charges &#8216;False&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5756\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-11-at-10.32.00-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5756\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-11-at-10.32.00-AM.png\" alt=\"Dan Toth (Campaign Photo)\" width=\"144\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Toth (Campaign Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Brick township councilman Dan Toth put out a brief statement Wednesday afternoon, calling charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child filed Tuesday false.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Let me be clear: the charges filed against me are false and baseless. I\u2019ve spent my entire life building my reputation, and I will devote my full energies toward proving my innocence. As such, I have requested that my name be withdrawn from the ballot for Township Council in Brick.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Toth was charged with the offenses after an allegation was made by a 15-year-old boy in Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Republican party officials have told Shorebeat Toth will be replaced by another candidate on November\u2019s election ballot.<\/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\/08\/toth-criminal-charges-false\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brick township councilman Dan Toth put out a brief statement Wednesday afternoon, calling charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child filed Tuesday false. The statement said: Let me be clear: the charges filed against me are false and baseless. I\u2019ve spent my entire life building my reputation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5769,"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":[15,2],"tags":[24,1153],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-dan-toth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dan_toth.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","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=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}