{"id":483,"date":"2017-02-08T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-02-08T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:48:28","slug":"toms-river-bids-an-emotional-goodbye-to-officer-injured-in-the-line-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/02\/toms-river-bids-an-emotional-goodbye-to-officer-injured-in-the-line-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Bids an Emotional Goodbye to Officer Injured in the Line of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ptl. DJ Unger is recognized for 15 years with the Toms River Police Department. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s a career that shouldn\u2019t have ended this early.<\/p>\n

After 15 years protecting Toms River resident as a member of the police department, Patrolman Dewey \u201cD.J.\u201d Unger retired Tuesday night after being injured in the line of duty.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccop\u2019s cop,\u201d he enjoyed the camaraderie of working the midnight shift and took the assignment many other balk at. He volunteered his time with the Police Athletic League to help the youth of the township, helped create several sports camps for kids and became certified as an EMT to go above and beyond to help resident in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a wonderful 15 years with us,\u201d said Chief Mitch Little.<\/p>\n

Unger\u2019s career was stopped in its tracks when he was called to deal with the an emotionally disturbed person who became \u201cextremely violent,\u201d Little said. \u201cHe ended up hurting his hand to the point where he can\u2019t work anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ptl. DJ Unger escorted out of TRPD on his last day by his colleagues. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n

Unger lives in Little Egg Harbor and has a young son and daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn retirement, Patrolman Unger will continue to concentrate on what\u2019s most important, his children, family and friends \u2013 and will look to begin a new chapter in his life,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a career that shouldn\u2019t have ended this early. After 15 years protecting Toms River resident as a member of the police department, Patrolman Dewey \u201cD.J.\u201d Unger retired Tuesday night after being injured in the line of duty. A \u201ccop\u2019s cop,\u201d he enjoyed the camaraderie of working the midnight shift and took the assignment many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[185,186,90,117],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-dewer-dj-unger","tag-dj-unger","tag-retire","tag-toms-river-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dj_unger.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}