UPDATE:

LINDEN -- A Linden police sergeant was busted for selling marijuana after a narcotics investigation, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Thursday.

William F. Turbett III, 30, is charged with fourth-degree distribution of marijuana as well as possession of marijuana, a disorderly persons offense. Turbett is the son of Linden Capt. William Turbett Jr.

Park said members of the Prosecutor's Office's Guns, Gangs, Drugs, and Violent Crimes Task Force and the Sayreville Police Department Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at Turbett's home on Merritt Avenue in Sayreville Wednesday night, where they found and seized a small amount of marijuana.

Park said that Turbett's girlfriend, Nicolette Hendrickson, 22, of Sayreville, was also at Turbett's home and was charged with disorderly-persons possession of marijuana. Both Turbett and Hendrickson were charged via summons and released on their own recognizance, Park said.

Turbett had been suspended from duty without pay for an unrelated matter prior to yesterday's marijuana bust, Park said. He earned a salary of $105,693 in 2015, according to state records.

The prosecutor's office, which took over the department's internal affairs division in January, did not say why he had been suspended previously. (The takeover was the result of an investigation that found the department was deficient in disciplining former Officer Pedro Abad when he was charged twice with DUI, before the double-fatal crash this March where he is also alleged to have been driving drunk.)

Park said the Linden Police Department cooperated with the Prosecutor's Office during the course of the investigation.

Linden Police declined to comment on the charges and referred all questions to the prosecutor's office.

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