{"id":10423,"date":"2026-03-19T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:19:01","slug":"cops-south-toms-river-man-arrested-after-360-grams-of-cocaine-150k-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/03\/cops-south-toms-river-man-arrested-after-360-grams-of-cocaine-150k-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: South Toms River Man Arrested After 360 Grams of Cocaine, $150K Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two men \u2013 including a South Toms River resident \u2013 have been arrested on charges of drug trafficking after an investigation led to the discovery of 360 grams of cocaine and $15,000 in cash, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Joshua Hunter, 53, of South Toms River, and Mary Copestick, 41, of Clementon, were facing charges. Their arrests came after a multi-agency investigation identified a residence in Trenton and a residence in Clementon as being utilized the pair to allegedly sell illicit drugs.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, investigators from the prosecutor\u2019s office and Brick police department effectuated a motor vehicle stop on a vehicle being operated by Copestick with Hunter as a passenger on Feb. 26, 2026. Copestick and Hunter were taken into custody without incident; as they were being removed from the vehicle, detectives \u201cobserved approximately 360 grams of cocaine in plain view.\u201d Detectives then executed court-authorized search warrants on the residences in Trenton and Clementon, \u201cleading them to seize approximately $150,000 in assets suspected to be the proceeds of criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Copestick and Hunter were both charged with Possession of Five Ounces or More of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, Conspiracy to Possess Five Ounces or More of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Cocaine, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Both suspects were transported to the Ocean County Jail and subsequently released in accordance with the state\u2019s bail reform law.<\/p>\n

No photos of the suspects were available.<\/p>\n

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Two men \u2013 including a South Toms River resident \u2013 have been arrested on charges of drug trafficking after an investigation led to the discovery of 360 grams of cocaine and $15,000 in cash, authorities said. Joshua Hunter, 53, of South Toms River, and Mary Copestick, 41, of Clementon, were facing charges. Their arrests came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,1080,11],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-drug-distribution","tag-featured","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","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=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10424,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions\/10424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}