{"id":3191,"date":"2019-07-08T17:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T21:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-07-08T17:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T21:58:39","slug":"bizarre-investigation-revealed-guns-500-pound-pig-in-toms-river-mans-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/bizarre-investigation-revealed-guns-500-pound-pig-in-toms-river-mans-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Investigation Revealed Guns, 500-Pound Pig in Toms River Man’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bizarre investigation began unfolding in Toms River first thing Monday morning, when a man came to the police station at about 7 a.m. to tell officers that he believed he had a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n

While police were investigating, they found a loaded shotgun serving \u201cno legitimate purpose\u201d in vehicle of the man, identified as Joseph Kelly, of Egret Drive, police said.<\/p>\n

Kelly was charged and later transported to a local hospital for a medical evaluation, said police spokeswoman Jillian Messina.<\/p>\n

Based upon statements Kelly made during detention, his residence on Egret Drive was checked by police for the safety of any additional occupants, a statement from the department said.\u00a0 The residence was found to be vacant, however additional weapons and ammunition were located inside.<\/p>\n

According to Messina, due to the \u201cunknown age and condition of some of the located munitions,\u201d the New Jersey State Police Bomb Unit responded and assisted in their removal as a precautionary measure. The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office also assisted in the investigation.<\/p>\n

Egret Drive had been closed for several hours, but has since been reopened.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the odd encounter, Toms River Animal Control removed a 500-pound pig from Kelly\u2019s residence to keep safe.<\/p>\n

There were no threats to the public at any time, police said, adding that the investigation is continuing and additional charges may be filed.<\/p>\n

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A bizarre investigation began unfolding in Toms River first thing Monday morning, when a man came to the police station at about 7 a.m. to tell officers that he believed he had a warrant for his arrest. While police were investigating, they found a loaded shotgun serving \u201cno legitimate purpose\u201d in vehicle of the man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[855,11],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-joseph-kelly","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\/3191","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=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"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=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}