Police Serving Warrant Arrest Forked River Women on Drug Charges

Two Forked River residents were arrested Thursday and charged with possession of drugs, police said.

Kimberlyann Ridgeway, 29 and Liza Whited, 47, both of 325 Yorktown Drive, were in possession of drugs and paraphernalia when the Ocean County Sheriff's Department arrived to arrest Ridgeway on an outstanding warrant.

Lacey detectives responded and said they discovered 38 glassine folds containing heroin, a small amount of rock cocaine, marijuana, hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia.

Ridgeway was set to the Ocean County Jail in lieu of her warrant and charged with possession of marijuana, possession of a hypodermic syringe and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Whited was arrested and charged with possession of heroin and cocaine, possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, possession of a hypodermic syringe and possession of paraphernalia. She was sent to the county jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Daniel Whited, 21, Liza Whited’s son, was arrested on an outstanding $2,000 Lacey Township warrant and sent to the county jail.

Thursday's charges were only the . On June 1, after a motor vehicle stop, Whited, Ridgeway and Salvatore Distefano, 25, of Barnegat were .

On two separate occasions in January, both with possession of heroin and being under the influence of heroin.