{"id":347,"date":"2017-01-11T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-01-11T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:23:33","slug":"toms-river-heroin-factory-shut-down-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/01\/toms-river-heroin-factory-shut-down-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Heroin &#8216;Factory&#8217; Shut Down, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_348\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-348\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/porter.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Porter (Photo: TRPD)\" width=\"400\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/porter.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/porter-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/porter-302x420.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Porter (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An investigation that spanned months led to the recent arrest of a Newark man who was allegedly using two local residences as part of a heroin distribution operations.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Porter, 27, of Newark, is facing drug charges following his arrest Dec. 22, said Toms River Police spokesman Ralph Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>Porter was charged after authorities executed\u00a0a search warrant on a unit in the\u00a0Winteringham Village complex off Route 166 as well as a residence on the 100 block of Philadelphia Avenue in Lavallette. Detectives uncovered \u201ca full manufacturing facility where heroin was being mixed, packaged and stamped by Porter for resale,\u201d said Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>Items, he said, included empty wax folds ready to be packaged, stamps, sifters, and several other items used to package and distribute heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Porter was charged with possession of heroin, possession of heroin over one half ounce with the intent to distribute\u00a0and maintaining a heroin manufacturing facility.\u00a0 Bail was set at $75,000 cash. Porter was being lodged in the Ocean County Jail in lieu of bail.<\/p>\n<p>Toms River Police Department\u2019s Special Enforcement Team, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Ocean County Prosecutors Office Special Operations Group, and Lavallette Police Department participated in the operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/01\/toms-river-heroin-factory-shut-down-police-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation that spanned months led to the recent arrest of a Newark man who was allegedly using two local residences as part of a heroin distribution operations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[103,13,124,11],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-drug-distribution","tag-heroin","tag-kevin-porter","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/porter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}