Little Egg Woman One Of Two Arrested In Manchester Drug Bust

by Karen Wall

LAKEHURST, NJ — A Little Egg Harbor woman was one of two arrested on drug charges here after police stopped the car she was driving for tinted windows.

Merissa A. Hoover, 37, of Little Egg Harbor and Timothy A. Pearson, 39, of Toms River were both charged Tuesday following a motor vehicle stop by Lakehurst Officer Jason Guide, said Lakehurst Police Officer Robert Schroeck, the department's public information officer.

Guide saw the car, a 2012 Chevrolet with tinted windows, on Route 70 near Elm Street and pulled it over shortly before 6 p.m., Schroeck said.

Guide's investigation led to a search of the car that turned up 11 hypodermic needles, 1 sublingual strip of suboxone and a crack pipe, he said. Hoover had 6 wax folds of heroin, 9 empty wax folds of heroin and four more hypodermic needles. Person had a single fold of heroin, Schroeck said, while Pearson had a single fold of heroin.

Both showed signs of being under the influence of CDS, Schroeck said, and Guide arrested both.

Hoover was charged with possession of CDS, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of hypodermic needles and being under the influence of CDS, and issued motor vehicle summonses for having tinted windows and for possession of CDS in a motor vehicle, Schroeck said.

Pearson was charged with possession of CDS, possession of drug paraphernalia and being under the influence of CDS and issued a motor vehicle summons for failure to wear a seatbelt, he said.
Both were released on summonses, he said.
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