The Chief of Buena Borough's police department in Atlantic County is out of a job and banned from elected or appointed public posts in New Jersey after admitting that he used fraudulent means to obtain a prescription medication.

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According to acting County Prosecutor James McClain, David Sherma, 37, waived his right to a grand jury presentation and pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree charge Thursday in Mays Landing. Sherma was released on his own recognizance. His plea bargain gives him probation when he's sentenced November 2.

The probe began in March when a Vineland pharmacist contacted his local police department over a suspicious-looking prescription that Sherma dropped off. Vineland police and the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Official Corruption Unit undertook a joint investigation.

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