{"id":2232,"date":"2018-08-03T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2018-08-03T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:11:00","slug":"grand-jury-indicts-toms-river-man-on-attempted-murder-arson-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/08\/grand-jury-indicts-toms-river-man-on-attempted-murder-arson-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Indicts Toms River Man on Attempted Murder, Arson Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1889\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1889\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kenneth-Lyons.jpg\" alt=\"Kenneth Lyons (Photo: OCPO)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kenneth-Lyons.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kenneth-Lyons-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kenneth-Lyons-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Lyons (Photo: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Ocean County grand jury has handed up an indictment charging a Toms River man with attempted murder and arson for allegedly setting an acquaintance\u2019s home and car on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say\u00a0Kenneth Lyons, 36, of Ocean Township, intentionally set fire to the home at 6 Castro Street in Toms River and a Hyundai Sonata that was parked outside the residence. Police officers suspected foul play from the beginning and secured the scene so investigators could determine the cause of the blaze, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent investigation of the fire, which occurred at 1:30 a.m. April 7, would lead to the identification and arrest of Lyons, who knew the woman whose home and car he allegedly burnt.\u00a0 Lyons remains incarcerated in the Ocean County Jail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/08\/grand-jury-indicts-toms-river-man-on-attempted-murder-arson-charges\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ocean County grand jury has handed up an indictment charging a Toms River man with attempted murder and arson for allegedly setting an acquaintance\u2019s home and car on fire. Prosecutors say\u00a0Kenneth Lyons, 36, of Ocean Township, intentionally set fire to the home at 6 Castro Street in Toms River and a Hyundai Sonata that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[188,571,602],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-arson","tag-attempted-murder","tag-kenneth-lyons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kenneth-Lyons.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","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=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}