{"id":17262,"date":"2025-03-10T04:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=17262"},"modified":"2025-03-10T04:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:30:37","slug":"seaside-heights-man-36-charged-with-failing-to-register-under-megans-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/03\/seaside-heights-man-36-charged-with-failing-to-register-under-megans-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Man, 36, Charged With Failing to Register Under Megan&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25096\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hadden.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25096\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25096\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hadden.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Hadden (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Hadden (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A convicted sex offender who is suspected of moving from Toms River to Seaside Heights is facing a charge of failing to register in compliance with Megan\u2019s Law, prosecutors announced over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Hadden, 36, of Toms River, was charged with two counts of failing to register after being arrested by the Seaside Heights Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Megan\u2019s Law Squad revealed that Hadden moved from his registered address in Toms River to Seaside Heights without registering or notifying any law enforcement agencies, which he was legally obligated to under Megan\u2019s Law, according to a statement. Further investigation uncovered that Hadden had been terminated from his registered place of employment without notifying any law enforcement agencies, also in violation of Megan\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n<p>On March 7, 2025, Hadden was taken into custody by the Seaside Heights Police Department without incident. Hadden was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he is presently lodged pending a detention hearing. The nature of Hadden\u2019s original conviction was not available in a state database; he was no longer listed as an inmate at the Ocean County Jail as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with relevant information regarding this case \u2013 or other individuals violating Megan\u2019s Law requirements \u2013 are asked to contact Detective Alex Dasti of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at 732-929-2027, ext. 3458.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/03\/seaside-heights-man-36-charged-with-failing-to-register-under-megans-law\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted sex offender who is suspected of moving from Toms River to Seaside Heights is facing a charge of failing to register in compliance with Megan\u2019s Law, prosecutors announced over the weekend. Keith Hadden, 36, of Toms River, was charged with two counts of failing to register after being arrested by the Seaside Heights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1959,2869,1896],"class_list":["post-17262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-featured","tag-keith-hadden","tag-megans-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hadden.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-4uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17264,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions\/17264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}