{"id":3226,"date":"2019-07-23T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2019-07-23T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T22:46:02","slug":"toms-river-officer-injured-while-responding-to-swatting-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/toms-river-officer-injured-while-responding-to-swatting-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Officer Injured While Responding to &#8216;Swatting&#8217; Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Toms River police officer was injured in a car accident while en route to a so-called \u201cSWATing\u201d incident that turned out to be a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>The scenario played out Monday at about 11 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Jillian Messina. Toms River officers were dispatched Sierra Drive in response to a call placed to the Toms River Police Department referencing a shooting and potential hostage situation, and possibly a pipe bomb, Messina said. Ultimately, contact was made with the homeowner and occupants of the house and every was safe.<\/p>\n<p>The early investigation by Toms River detectives suggests the incident was a hoax, possibly stemming from online gaming, said Messina.\u00a0 The incident is being investigated by Detective Lou Santora and is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to what was believed to have been an extremely serious incident, Officer James Colline was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He was transported to Community Medical Center where he was treated and released for minor injuries. The other driver did not sustain injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The accident investigation is ongoing and being investigated by Toms River Police Sergeant Eugene Bachonski, Messina said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/toms-river-officer-injured-while-responding-to-swatting-hoax\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toms River police officer was injured in a car accident while en route to a so-called \u201cSWATing\u201d incident that turned out to be a hoax. The scenario played out Monday at about 11 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Jillian Messina. Toms River officers were dispatched Sierra Drive in response to a call placed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[863,862,11],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-swat","tag-swatting","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}