Ocean County Man Pleads Guilty To Running Drug Production Facility From Lacey Home

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Lacey Township man has pleaded guilty to running a drug manufacturing facility out of a home in the township from 2017 to 2020, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday.

Andrew Bradley, 22, pleaded guilty to maintaining a controlled dangerous substance production facility before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan on Friday, Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.

Bradley is scheduled to be sentenced on April 1, with an expected sentence of 10 years in prison, the prosecutor's office said.

Billhimer said Lacey Township police detectives determined Bradley had been using a home in the Forked River section to store and distribute cocaine and marijuana, and had been doing so between 2017 and 2020.

On Oct. 1, 2020, Lacey police pulled Bradley over and with court-authorized search warrants searched his vehicle and his home.

With the assistance of the Stafford Township Police Department K-9 Unit, detectives seized cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), dimethyltryptamine (DMT), marijuana including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), drug paraphernalia, and equipment and supplies indicative of manufacturing and distributing cocaine, from Bradley’s home.

He was arrested and taken to the Ocean County Jail but later released as a consequence of New Jersey bail reform, the prosecutor's office said.

Billhimer praised Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Kristin Pressman, Senior Assistant Prosecutor Ashley Angelo, and Senior Assistant Prosecutor Meghan O’Neill for efforts handling the case.

The Lacey Township Police Department's patrol and detective bureaus, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, and Stafford Township Police Department K-9 Unit collaborated on the investigation and arrest.

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