Dentist Overspread and Organized a Marijuana Growing Business

BERKELEY- Police found two pounds of cultivated marijuana, more than 40 marijuana plants, handguns and rifles, $10,000 in cash when they got an alarm signal from a burglar at the waterfront home of a local dentist.

Later police pointed that Dr. Raymond Pacholec, 61, was charged with storage of more than 50 grams of marijuana, and moreover he intended to overspread and to organize a marijuana growing business. Pacholec was released after posting $50,000 bail.

According to Detective Sgt. James J. Smith, at 8:27 a.m. police responded a burglar alarm at Pacholec's home at Bayview Avenue and Magnolia Drive. Two officers John Sperber and Don Rowley looked through the house with Pacholec, but there was no any burglar at all. According to Smith statement they felt a strong smell of raw marijuana.

Consequently after the police determined other facts of illegal drug use and possession the doctor was taken into custody. Police left and received a search warrant, Smith said. The Ocean County sheriff's canine unit and Criminalistics Investigations Unit assisted. The State Police Marijuana Eradication Unit benefited in taking the evidence into custody. Another search presented some extra interesting evidence. Pacholec has a practice on Route 9 in the Bayville section.

Anyway Smith saw no any medicinal purposes in its possession; still the case is investigating in details. Smith passed an opinion on the police productive work who responded there for the burglar alarm. Probably without their keen observations, we never would have got involved with it.