Forchion, better known as NJ Weedman, was arrested and charged with second- and third-degree witness tampering in March 2017. The charges come nearly a year after police raided his restaurant and "cannabis sanctuary" in Trenton, NJ Weedman’s Joint and the Liberty Bell Temple, in April 2016.
After the drug bust, Forchion was charged with several counts of marijuana-related offenses, but because those charges occurred before the state’s bail reform act, which went into effect in 2017, he was able to post bail and was released pending trial.
But now, under the bail reform Forchion has not been given the option of bail by a Mercer County Superior Court judge for the later witness tampering charge, despite the recommendation of his release by the computer algorithm that is used to assess risk in defendants.