{"id":3267,"date":"2019-08-13T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:20:18","slug":"authorities-charge-juvenile-in-toms-river-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/08\/authorities-charge-juvenile-in-toms-river-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Charge Juvenile in Toms River Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)\" width=\"829\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png 829w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-563x420.png 563w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-180x135.png 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-238x178.png 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-640x477.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM-681x508.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Investigators have filed murder and weapons charges against a juvenile in the murder of Margarita Diaz, 44, of Manchester, who was found dead in a Toms River medical office last week.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile&#8217;s name, age and description were withheld by authorities, who cited the person&#8217;s age. It was also not revealed what the juvenile was doing at the medical facility, the Deer Chase Professional Park, last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, the juvenile was charged with murder, possession of a weapon \u2013 a knife \u2013 for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon. There was an additional charge filed for endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile is being detained in the Ocean County Juvenile Detention Center, the statement from the prosecutor&#8217;s office 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\/08\/authorities-charge-juvenile-in-toms-river-killing\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators have filed murder and weapons charges against a juvenile in the murder of Margarita Diaz, 44, of Manchester, who was found dead in a Toms River medical office last week. The juvenile&#8217;s name, age and description were withheld by authorities, who cited the person&#8217;s age. It was also not revealed what the juvenile was [&hellip;]<\/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":[868,556,11],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-margarita-diaz","tag-murder","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\/3267","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=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/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=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}