LACEY TOWNSHIP, NJ – Andrew Bradley, 22, of Lacey Township was living the American dream, running a business out of his own home and making money at a very young age. The only problem, the business he decided to run was a drug-dealing operation and last year, police discovered it and shut him down.
Today, after pleading guilty to charges of maintaining a drug production facility, Bradley was sentenced to ten years in prison.
“An investigation conducted by the Lacey Township Police Department Detective Bureau between 2017 and 2020 determined that Bradley was utilizing a residence in the Forked River section of Lacey Township to store and distribute cocaine and marijuana,” Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. “As a result, Detectives from the Lacey Township Police Department performed a motor vehicle stop on Bradley’s vehicle in Lacey Township on October 1, 2021, at which time Bradley was detained. Lacey Township Detectives – with the assistance of the Stafford Township Police Department K-9 Unit – thereafter executed court-authorized search warrants on Bradley’s vehicle and residence.”
According to the prosecutor’s office, detectives seized quantities of 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 residence.