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CLIFFVIEW PILOT first reported the arrests by prosecutor’s detectives on Wednesday of Glenn Gerhard, his wife, Hilda Gerhard, and their son, Matthew Gerhard, along with the search of their Viola Terrace home – a quarter-mile from the Bergen County YJCC and barely 500 feet from town hall and the Washington Township police station (SEE: Washington Township father, mother, son busted on pot selling charges).
Molinelli withheld release of the full information until the Gerhard’s daughter, Christina, and her husband, Scott Gersten, could turn themselves in. That occurred yesterday the prosecutor’s Paramus office.
Christina Gerhard, Scott Gersten (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE)
A little over three hours earlier yesterday, Christina Gerhard wrote to CLIFFVIEW PILOT :
“How could you lie so much and try to ruin other peoples lives[.] [T]hat’s my family you wrote about and it has NOTHING true about what happened I’m so glad you have joy to exaggerate the truth. You[‘]r[e] all disgusting human beings[.]”
The newlyweds had been in North Carolina looking for a new home when the others were busted on Tuesday.
Like the others, Gersten and Christina Gerhard were released on bail pending court appearances on Monday in Hackensack.
Molinelli said his narcotics detectives were investigating Gersten when they applied for a search warrant for the family home.
Along with the cash and pot – which the prosecutor said had a street value of $16,000 – the search last Friday turned up four handguns, two rifles and a shotgun, Molinelli said.
Glenn Gerhard, 60, his 24-year-old daughter and Gersten, also 24, were charged with marijuana possession in a school zone. Hilda Gerhard, 56, and 27-year-old Matthew Gerhard were each charged with possession with the intent to sell the pot and having it in a school zone.
Glenn Gerhard, a gun enthusiast, and his daughter also were charged with possessing a weapon while committing a drug crime.
Glenn Gerhard, who works as a sales executive for a North Bergen lithograph company, lives with his wife of 35 years in a cul-de-sac off Pascack Road.
Sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT it was the site of parties for football players, cheerleaders and others when Matthew Gerhard (Class of 2005) attended Westwood Regional High School.
Glenn Gerhard was released on $75,000 bail and his wife and son on $35,000 bail each soon after being processed at the Bergen County Jail. Gersten and Christina Gerhard each posted $75,000 bail and were released.
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