Police arrest 8 connected to alleged meth lab in Ocean County home

BERKELEY —Township Police arrested eight people in connection with an alleged drug and meth lab found inside a Bayville section home.

Following an investigation over the course of several months, police on Wednesday entered the home on Grand Central Parkway and found large amounts of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and prescription pills and marijuana.

Also found inside the home were materials indicative of "large scale packaging and manufacturing of narcotics," including new wax folds, glass vials, scales and paraphernalia, which when operating would have produced thousands of individual doses of heroin and cocaine for weekly distribution. Police said they seized a large amount of cash and a 2003 Nissan Xterra as well.

Police also found what they believed to be a small portable facility used to make methanphetamine, which prompted police to bring in Berkley Township Hazmat and Bayville Fire Department because of the explosive chemicals used to make meth.

Arrested were

• Karl Lancaster, 28, of Philadelphia
• MIchael Turner, 34, of Philadelphia
• Shannon Walpole, 32, of Waretown
• Richard Frommann, 28, of Bayville
• Amanda Morris,27, of Bayville

All were charged with possession of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute. Bail was set at $60,000 for Haspel, Mccurdy, Walpole Frommann and Morris, and $70,000 for Small, Turner and Lancaster. All are being held at the Ocean County Jail.