UPDATE
March 8, 2022
LONG BRANCH, N.J. – Christopher Walls pleaded guilty in November 2021 to manufacturing a controlled dangerous substance and to causing a risk of widespread injury. As a result, he was sentenced in March 2022 to 10 years in state prison.
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May 17, 2021
LONG BRANCH, N.J. — A New Jersey police officer was arrested Sunday for running a meth lab out of his house, prosecutors announced Sunday
Christopher Walls, 50, a 19-year veteran of the Long Branch Police Department, was arrested after his co-workers were called to his house Saturday night because of a domestic disturbance, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Officers were tipped off by someone at the residence of Walls’ illegal activity. As a result, they discovered the ingredients and equipment for making meth in the basement and a shed, a statement from the prosecutor said. Moreover, Walls had books related to making meth, explosives and poison, the release said, according to the New York Post.
Local police worked with state investigators, the prosecutor’s statement said.
“It is particularly distressing that this hazard was caused by a sworn law enforcement officer,” Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said in the statement.
Walls is facing six charges related to the production of methamphetamine as well as a second-degree child endangerment charge and firearm possession during a controlled-dangerous substance offense, the Post reported. He was suspended from the department without pay, pending the results of the investigation.
There is a maximum exposure of 60 years in prison if convicted of all the charges. Walls was booked at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution.
