{"id":10035,"date":"2025-01-13T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:51:14","slug":"cops-no-foul-play-suspected-after-body-of-man-52-found-near-toms-river-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/01\/cops-no-foul-play-suspected-after-body-of-man-52-found-near-toms-river-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: No Foul Play Suspected After Body of Man, 52, Found Near Toms River Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities in Ocean County said Monday that foul play is not suspected in the case of a man whose body was found floating near a Toms River park.<\/p>\n<p>Toms River police officers were called to Shelter Cove Park in Toms River at about 3:05 p.m. Sunday for a report of a deceased individual located in the water adjacent to the coastal marsh. Responding officers discovered the deceased body of a male, later identified as Deane Labranche, 52, of Toms River, floating in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decedent was removed from the water and transported to Community Medical Center pending a post-mortem examination,\u201d the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said that while the death remains under investigation, there \u201cdoes not appear, at this time, to be any foul play involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/6d0f1820-62e6-463f-a672-88bebeef4bd8\/js\/app.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/01\/cops-no-foul-play-suspected-after-body-of-man-52-found-near-toms-river-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Ocean County said Monday that foul play is not suspected in the case of a man whose body was found floating near a Toms River park. Toms River police officers were called to Shelter Cove Park in Toms River at about 3:05 p.m. Sunday for a report of a deceased individual located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2021,1080,2020,11],"class_list":["post-10035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-deane-labranche","tag-featured","tag-shelter-cove-park","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}