{"id":1250,"date":"2014-10-02T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:56:09","slug":"couple-held-up-robbed-in-toms-river-red-lobster-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/couple-held-up-robbed-in-toms-river-red-lobster-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Held Up, Robbed in Toms River Red Lobster Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1251\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-10.54.11-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-10.54.11-AM-240x160.png\" alt=\"Red Lobster, Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Google Maps)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-10.54.11-AM-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-10.54.11-AM-290x195.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Lobster, Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred last week in the parking lot of the Red Lobster restaurant on Hooper Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to police spokesman Ralph Stocco, a man and woman were in the restaurant\u2019s parking lot at about 11:59 p.m. Sept 26 when they were approached by two men brandishing a handgun. The victims, he said, were about to enter a vehicle when one of the suspects approached from behind and put a gun to the back of the man\u2019s head and demanded money.<\/p>\n<p>During the confrontation, the men entered the victim\u2019s vehicle to locate cash, then fled on foot after taking money from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are described as being two black men, clean shaven and approximately six feet tall. They fled in an older model, four door grey sedan that had a third black male as its driver.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is being asked to contact Detective Randy Petrick at 732-349-0150, extension 1235.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/couple-held-up-robbed-in-toms-river-red-lobster-parking-lot\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred last week in the parking lot of the Red Lobster restaurant on Hooper Avenue. According to police spokesman Ralph Stocco, a man and woman were in the restaurant\u2019s parking lot at about 11:59 p.m. Sept 26 when they were approached by two men brandishing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[328,24,358,100],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-armed-robbery","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-red-lobster","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-10.54.11-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}