An investigation found that customers entering a business known as Skraptyques would be scanned in by an armed guard and have their cell phones taken before being allowed access into a secure back room where marijuana, edibles, and mushrooms were available via cash transaction.
The driver had offered to give an acquaintance a ride to an auto repair shop in Toms River, where his vehicle was stolen by a Lumberton man in a potential set-up, according to police.
One employee of the Bock Bay group home in Howell, another at the Pat LeBon Center in Lumberton, both run by Mount Holly-based Oaks Integrated Care Inc., contracted the virus following outbreaks at those facilities.