Police in New Jersey have arrested a 33-year-old chain restaurant supervisor who they’ve alleged supplied alcohol, Adderall and marijuana vape cartridges to at the very least 10 minors he’s accused of grooming between 2020 and 2024.
Detectives working for the Plumstead Township Police first began trying into Richard “Ricky” Brooks on April 1, after receiving a tip about him somebody shared with Pennsylvania’s ChildLine, in response to a press launch from the police division.
The tipster allegedly stated Brooks was actively grooming a minor worker he managed working on the Saladworks location on the town.
As they investigated the claims, police wound up interviewing 10 minor victims who all alleged Brooks had sexually abused them after plying them with alcohol, medical marijuana vape cartridges, cigarettes, and Adderall capsules shared from his personal private prescription, police alleged. The youngsters had been between the ages of 15 and 17 on the time of the alleged crimes.
Brooks, police additional contend, apparently groped and groomed a few of the alleged victims — largely from neighboring state Pennsylvania — whereas managing a Wendy’s Restaurant in Doylestown, the place he additionally had an condominium. At the very least one of many male victims advised police Brooks abused them by fondling their genitals whereas each had been hanging out at his Doylestown house.
An arrest warrant was issued for Brooks on December 11.
Brooks was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday, December 24. He has been formally charged with 20 counts of corruption of minors, indecent assault with out consent, indecent assault individual underneath 16, and promoting or furnishing alcohol to a minor. He’s additionally dealing with 16 counts of manufacture, supply, or possession of medication with the intent to fabricate or ship and 13 counts of marijuana possession.
Neither Brooks nor an lawyer representing him entered pleas to the counts, in response to on-line data reviewed by Us Weekly. Those self same data fail to point if Brooks has retained authorized illustration.
Magisterial District Choose Stacy Wertman determined to set Brooks’ bail at $100,000 — an quantity he has, till this level, been unable to put up. So, Brooks stays in police custody in Pennsylvania.
Brooks’ subsequent court docket listening to is scheduled for January 12, 2026.
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If convicted, Brooks faces at the very least 100 years behind bars, in response to state regulation.
Us Weekly made calls to a number of numbers listed for Brooks however was unable to get any of his kinfolk to speak in regards to the allegations. Equally, representatives for Saladworks and Wendy’s didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The Nationwide Baby Abuse and Neglect Information System has estimated that 7 out of each 1,000 youngsters would be the sufferer of abuse. In 2023 alone, it’s believed there have been 546,159 victims of kid abuse, and that 2,000 of them died as a direct results of that abuse. In 2022, these numbers had been 558,899 and a couple of,050, respectively.
In case you suspect youngster abuse, please name the Childhelp Nationwide Baby Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Baby or 1-800-422-4453, or go to ChildHelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential, and the hotline is out there 24/7 in additional than 170 languages.
