Alleged Killer of Police Dog Schultz Arrested on Drug Charges

The Washington Township man Gloucester Township police K-9, Schultz, in a restaurant robbery is facing drug possession and distribution charges. 

Skyler J. Robinson, 22, of Pitman-Downer Road, was arrested without incident at his home Wednesday, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office.

He was charged with possession of oxycodone without a prescription, possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a oxycodone to an undercover officer. Each is a third-degree crime, punishable by a term of three to five years in state prison.

Robinson's bail on the new charges was set at $20,000, with an option to post 10 percent. He was released on bail from the Gloucester County Jail today.

Oxycodone is a powerful and highly addictive narcotic painkiller that carries a street value of anywhere from $1 per milligram.

Robinson's arrest came after a monthlong investigation by the prosecutor's Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Unit, which was assisted in the arrest by Washington Township police and Rowan University police.

(Bernie Weisenfeld, a spokesman for the prosecutor, said Robinson is not accused of selling drugs on the Rowan campus, nor was he a student at the school in Glassboro.)

Robinson was free on bail pending trial on for his alleged role in the robbery of the Chinese restaurant in Blackwood on Nov. 30, 2010. In the process, Robinson reportedly killed Schultz, a Gloucester Township police K-9, by throwing the dog into oncoming traffic on Route 42.

His accomplice, Evan Scotese, was sentenced in September 2011 to six years in state prison after pleading guilty to the robbery.

Schultz's death in the line of duty led to an for the department, as well as a named after him that increased the penalties for those found guilty of killing a police animal.

Because Schultz was killed before the law was passed, however, the stronger penalties won't apply to Robinson if he's found guilty of killing the dog.