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Long Branch Cop Accused Of Operating Meth Lab At Home - Long Branch-Eatontown, NJ - A 19-year police officer has been suspended without pay after he was arrested and accused of operating a meth lab at his home.
Authorities: Police officer was running meth lab at his home
May 17, 2021
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LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) A domestic disturbance call at a veteran police officer s home in a residential New Jersey town led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab he was operating there, authorities said.
Christopher Walls, a 19-year veteran of the Long Branch force, was suspended without pay from his job following his arrest Saturday night. It wasn t known Monday if he s retained an attorney.
Police who had responded to the domestic disturbance call at the Long Branch home were told by someone there that Walls was operating the lab, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. A state police hazmat team responded and found equipment and substances commonly used to make meth in the home s basement and in a shed on the property, along with books about making the drug, explosives and poison.