A local Cub Scout leader and her son are accused of selling heroin and marijuana to local college students and residents in Radnor Township.
Joann Badey, 53, George Badey, 24, and Jean Boller, 24, were charged with several drug-related offenses.
Police say they first received information stating Joann Badey and her son George were selling drugs out of their home in the township's Garrett Hill community. Their customers included students from nearby colleges as well as local residents, police said.
The mother and son also sold drugs to undercover officers during the police investigation, according to officials.
Police executed search and arrest warrants at their home on Nov. 13. They then arrested Joann and George Badey as well as Boller, who police say was near the house at the time.
Police confiscated a pound of marijuana with an estimated street value of $4,000, $800 in currency, nine packets of heroin, prescription bottles with medicine inside, drug paraphernalia, scales, pipes and bongs from the home, investigators said.
Shocked neighbors of Joann Badey told NBC10 she is known in the community as a sweet and friendly woman as well as a longtime Cub Scout Master of Pack 371 in Radnor. Her ex-husband and father of George Badey is the former Radnor Township Commissioner and the current chair of the Democratic Party in Radnor.
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"If you're going to come to Radnor and try to sell those kinds of drugs to our students and our residents you will be arrested regardless of who you are or who you are related to, period," said Radnor Township Police Superintendent Bill Colarulo.
Police say George Badey was arrested several times prior in Pennsylvania and Maryland on similar drug-related charges.
