{"id":455,"date":"2017-02-01T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=455"},"modified":"2017-02-01T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:12:17","slug":"former-toms-river-teacher-nabbed-in-drug-case-gives-up-teaching-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/02\/former-toms-river-teacher-nabbed-in-drug-case-gives-up-teaching-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Toms River Teacher Nabbed in Drug Case Gives Up Teaching License"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joseph DeFelice (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n

A former Toms River Regional schoolteacher who was charged with multiple drug offenses in 2015 has given up his teaching license as part of a diversionary program to have his charges dismissed.<\/p>\n

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Joseph DeFelice, 62, had been retired from the regional school district for five years when he was arrested June 17, 2015 as part of a drug investigation by Toms River police. Police seized\u00a0800 dilaudid painkillers, 182 Xanax pills, 60 oxycodone pills, 25 Vicodin pills, nine\u00a0codeine pills and one\u00a0Percocet pills during a raid of his residence. Investigators also found $14,000 in cash as well as crack pipes and a small amount of marijuana.<\/p>\n

DeFelice had served as a high school science teacher before his 2009 retirement.<\/p>\n

According to a copy of the decision released by the state Department of Education\u2019s Board of Examiners this week, DeFelice was accepted into a Pretrial Intervention program for 18 months, after which his charges would be dismissed.<\/p>\n

After being accepted into the program, DeFelice agreed to relinquish his certificates, the decision states. DeFelice held\u00a0a Teacher of Elementary School Certificate of Eligibility, issued in January 1999, a Teacher of Elementary School certificate, issued in Aug.\u00a02000, a supervisor certificate, issued in Jan.\u00a02003, a Principal Certificate of Eligibility, issued in Jan.\u00a02003 and a School Business Administrator Certificate of Eligibility, issued in Dec.\u00a02003.<\/p>\n

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DeFelice agreed to relinquish his certificates \u201cwith the force and effect of a revocation and all attendant consequences\u201d as part of the program. The board accepted a motion to do so Jan. 19. The certificates were revoked \u201ceffective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A former Toms River Regional schoolteacher who was charged with multiple drug offenses in 2015 has given up his teaching license as part of a diversionary program to have his charges dismissed. Joseph DeFelice, 62, had been retired from the regional school district for five years when he was arrested June 17, 2015 as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,5],"tags":[103,177,178,11],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-toms-river-schools","tag-drug-distribution","tag-joseph-defelice","tag-teacher","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/defelice_tr-e1485933109848.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}