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WASHINGTON (SBG) — A 19-year veteran New Jersey police officer is facing a list of serious charges after his fellow officers discovered a methamphetamine lab inside of his home in Long Branch, according to police and prosecutors.
Upon hearing the news, Long Branch Police Department's Acting Chief Frank Rizzuto immediately suspended 50-year-old Christopher Walls without pay.
At approximately 10:36 p.m. Saturday, Walls' fellow officers were called to a domestic disturbance at his home. A person living in the home told police that "Walls was involved in suspicious narcotics activity."
The New Jersey State Police hazmat team that was called in to respond found materials, chemicals & instruments "consistent with a methamphetamine laboratory in both the basement of the residence & in a shed on the property," the Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor stated on its website.
Police said Walls had everything in his home he needed to manufacture meth, along with the discovery of methamphetamine residue on glassware that's typically used to make the drug. Walls also had books related to "making methamphetamine, explosives & poison."
Police also found a large, open gun safe that was accessible to a child who lives at the home. " Inside the gun safe were two long guns, four handguns, eight high-capacity magazines & a large quantity of ammunition," prosecutors said.
Wells is facing the following charges:
*First-degree maintaining or operating a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) production facility
*Second-degree possession of a firearm during the course of a CDS offense
*Second-degree risking widespread injury
*Second-degree endangering the welfare of a child
*Third-degree manufacturing CDS (methamphetamine)
*Third-degree possession of CDS (methamphetamine).
Wells faces 20 years in prison if convicted of the first-degree charge & 10 years in prison if found guilty of any of the second-degree charges.
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