{"id":3291,"date":"2016-11-30T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2016-11-30T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:23:51","slug":"former-seaside-heights-special-officer-indicted-on-child-porn-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/11\/former-seaside-heights-special-officer-indicted-on-child-porn-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Seaside Heights Special Officer Indicted on Child Porn Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3292\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meier.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Kevin Meier (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3292\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meier.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Meier (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meier.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meier-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Meier (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 23-year-old man from Seaside Heights who once served as a special police officer in town was indicted this week on charges of child pornography possession and distribution, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sheridan Avenue\u00a0resident\u00a0Kevin Meier is free on $500,000 cash bail as his case proceeds, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Della Fave, spokesman for the office, said the\u00a0indictment stems from a June 2015 referral to Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office High Tech Crime Unit from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children through the New Jersey State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The referral stated a person within the jurisdiction of Ocean County was distributing suspected child pornography over the Internet. An investigation was initiated by OCPO and the Seaside Heights Police Department and quickly identified a Sheridan Avenue residence as the alleged source of the images.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On June 17, 2015 the partnering agencies executed a search warrant at Meier\u2019s home, resulting in the collection of evidence supporting the charges, Della Fave said.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Prosecutor Kristin Pressman is handling the prosecution.<\/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\/2016\/11\/former-seaside-heights-special-officer-indicted-on-child-porn-charge\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man from Seaside Heights who once served as a special police officer in town was indicted this week on charges of child pornography possession and distribution, authorities said Tuesday. Sheridan Avenue\u00a0resident\u00a0Kevin Meier is free on $500,000 cash bail as his case proceeds, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.\u00a0 Al Della Fave, spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[18,8,5],"tags":[948,20,949],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-kevin-meier","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-special-officer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meier.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-R5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}