{"id":1176,"date":"2017-08-31T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2017-08-31T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:51:50","slug":"cops-phony-bomb-was-placed-beside-route-37-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/08\/cops-phony-bomb-was-placed-beside-route-37-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: Phony ‘Bomb’ Was Placed Beside Route 37 on Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An object left off Route 37 in Toms River, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n

A pipe bomb lookalike was left near a Honda dealership on Route 37 Thursday morning intentionally, police believe.<\/p>\n

Police, fire and EMS units, as well as a state police bomb squad, were called to Honda of Toms River at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said.\u00a0Honda workers discovered the suspected device in the parking lot and phoned the police department, he said.<\/p>\n

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An object left off Route 37 in Toms River, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n

The business and surrounding homeowners in the area of Dale and Hill streets were evacuated as a precautionary measure, Stocco said. The New Jersey State Police Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit responded to evaluate the device, and eventually deployed a remotely-operated robot to approach the device and observe it with a video camera.<\/p>\n

They then utilized a portable x-ray to internally examine the object, said Stocco. Finally, wearing protective gear, they approached and disabled the object.\u00a0 The area was given the \u201call clear\u201d at 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

The object was determined not to be an explosive or incendiary device, however it was manufactured to look like one, Stocco said. It is a metal cylinder approximately 12 inches long and 5 inches wide and was wrapped in black tape and had several wires and electrical connecters protruding from the ends.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was placed there intentionally for an, as yet to be determined motive,\u201d Stocco said. \u201cThe investigators remain on the scene reviewing video footage and speaking to potential witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also assisting the Toms River Criminal Investigative Bureau were members of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office, Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Fire Companies #1 and #2, and Toms River EMS, said Stocco.<\/p>\n

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A pipe bomb lookalike was left near a Honda dealership on Route 37 Thursday morning intentionally, police believe. Police, fire and EMS units, as well as a state police bomb squad, were called to Honda of Toms River at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said.\u00a0Honda workers discovered the suspected device in the parking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[427,426,11],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-fake-bomb","tag-pipe-bomb","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/honda-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}