{"id":1317,"date":"2017-11-02T03:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2017-11-02T03:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:55:02","slug":"after-750-police-calls-toms-river-declares-downtown-motel-a-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/11\/after-750-police-calls-toms-river-declares-downtown-motel-a-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"After 750 Police Calls, Toms River Moves to Penalize Downtown Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Red Carpet Inn, Toms River, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Red Carpet Inn on Water Street in Toms River has generated 750 calls to the township\u2019s police department since 2015 \u2013 the primary reason officials formally declared the motel a \u201cnuisance\u201d under a state anti-crime statute.<\/p>\n

Toms River officials announced the charge Wednesday.\u00a0Among other penalties, the criminal statue permits the court to close the establishment for a period of up to one year until there is \u201creason to believe the illegal activity won\u2019t continue,\u201d the township said in a statement.\u00a0Named in the criminal complaint are 2 West Water LLC, the corporate owner of the Red Carpet Inn, and its sole managing member, Kartik Patel.<\/p>\n

According to police records, officers have responded to over 750 incidents at the location since 2015, many of which involved serious offenses including narcotics, weapons and theft, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The Toms River Police Department filed the public nuisance charge under a criminal statute that prohibits maintaining a nuisance, \u201ceither by knowingly conducting or maintaining any premises where unlawful activity takes place, or by creating a condition which endangers the public health or safety,\u201d according to officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe council has received numerous complaints about the operation of this facility,\u201d said township Councilman Al Manforti, whose ward includes the property. \u201cWe have been investigating these complaints for many months now.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad that our Quality of Life Task Force has developed enough information that we can now bring this matter to court with enough hard evidence to make a solid case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Quality of Life Task Force, which includes police as well as members of other township departments, has already responded to incidents at the troubled inn. Last\u00a0month, Toms River police arrested 11 men and four women at the Red Carpet\u00a0Inn, charging them with drug distribution and drug possession. The raid was triggered by citizen complaints and numerous open-air incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cImproving the quality of life for our residents by combating nuisance properties and their owners is a priority in our town,\u201d Mayor Thomas F. Kelaher said, in a statement. \u201cWe will continue to hold negligent property owners responsible for contributing to crime and illegal activity by not maintaining safe and acceptable environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Red Carpet Inn on Water Street in Toms River has generated 750 calls to the township\u2019s police department since 2015 \u2013 the primary reason officials formally declared the motel a \u201cnuisance\u201d under a state anti-crime statute. Toms River officials announced the charge Wednesday.\u00a0Among other penalties, the criminal statue permits the court to close the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[141,466,465,11],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-downtown-toms-river","tag-nuisance","tag-red-carpet-inn","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2141.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}