Former Ocean County Juvenile Officer Gets 60 Days In Jail For Selling Heroin

Toms River - A former Ocean County juvenile officer who pleaded guilty to possession of heroin was sentenced to at least 60 days in jail, spread out over weekends, according to a report in app.com.

Ocean County Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels sentenced Bayville resident Erica Kotelnicki today. Her full sentence is 180 days in jail and two years of probation.

Kotelnicki was arrested after police found heroin and cocaine in her home. There was no evidence that she ever sold drugs to juvenile shelter inmates.

Her attorney Ian Goldman said his client was applying to the state's Day Reporting Program, which allows inmates to live on their own during the week.

Berkeley police arrested Kotelnicki in March in the parking lot of Walgreens on Route 9 in Bayville. Police said she had been preparing to distribute heroin near the Bayville Elementary School.

Kotelnicki had been off duty from her job as an officer at the Ocean County Juvenile Detention Center, where she had worked since March 2012, when Berkeley police arrested her. She was suspended from her $36,264 job, and later resigned.

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