{"id":7271,"date":"2020-01-21T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7271"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:01:00","slug":"seaside-heights-sex-offender-arrested-after-failing-to-register-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/01\/seaside-heights-sex-offender-arrested-after-failing-to-register-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Sex Offender Arrested After Failing to Register, Authorities Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7272\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"John Bailey (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7272\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey.jpg\" alt=\"John Bailey (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey.jpg 618w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey-341x220.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Bailey (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A convicted violent sex offender is being lodged in the Ocean County Jail on charges he failed to properly register with the state under &#8220;Megan&#8217;s Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Bailey, 54, Seaside Heights, was arrested Friday, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. He was taken into custody without incident by officers from the Seaside Heights Police Department and the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Megan\u2019s Law Unit.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation revealed that Bailey has been employed in Seaside Heights without registering or notifying any law enforcement agencies, a requirement under the landmark 1994 law that tracks convicted sex offenders. Bailey is currently lodged in the Ocean County Jail pending a detention hearing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New Jersey State Police sex offender database, Bailey was convicted in 1994 with aggravated sexual assault with a weapon. A short description of his crime on the website states he engaged in &#8220;multiple violent sexual attacks&#8221; and kidnapped female strangers of all ages in stores and other public places.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey is listed as a &#8220;Tier III&#8221; offender, meaning &#8220;repetitive and compulsive,&#8221; the NJSP website said.<\/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\/2020\/01\/seaside-heights-sex-offender-arrested-after-failing-to-register-authorities-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted violent sex offender is being lodged in the Ocean County Jail on charges he failed to properly register with the state under &#8220;Megan&#8217;s Law.&#8221; John Bailey, 54, Seaside Heights, was arrested Friday, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. He was taken into custody without incident by officers from the Seaside Heights Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7272,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1645,20],"class_list":["post-7271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-john-bailey","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bailey.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1Th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271","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=7271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}