Post by admin on Jul 11, 2008 16:49:14 GMT -5
Freehold man arrested, found in possession of 27 "bricks"
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FREEHOLD — It started with a foot chase and a relatively minor marijuana arrest and ended with a borough man facing heroin distribution charges, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said.
Robert A. Shannon, 32, remained in the Monmouth County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail on Friday after investigators from the prosecutor's office, the Bayshore Narcotics Strike Force and the Asbury Park police said they found 1,350 bags of heroin, packed into 27 "bricks" of 50 apiece, at his residence, prosecutors said.
Bought in bulk, the seized drugs are worth a total of about $6,000, law-enforcement officials say. However, individual bags have a street price of $10 apiece.
Police also seized $2,850 in cash, Valentin said.
Shannon was arrested Thursday in the Monmouth Mall parking lot in Eatontown, Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin said. Information from the Asbury Park police department's street crimes unit had identified Shannon as a marijuana dealer operating near the mall, Valentin said.
When police approached him, they said he ran. He was arrested after a brief foot
chase and found with less than 50 grams of marijuana in his possession, prosecutors said.
Then a search of his residence turned up the heroin cache, police said.
Shannon faces third degree charges of possessing heroin and possession of heroin with an intent to distribute it, prosecutors said.
"This arrest again exemplifies the investigative success which can be achieved when law enforcement agencies combine their resources to attack the drug problem," Valentin said.
A public records check shows Shannon has prior arrests and convictions for drug and weapons offenses.
He was released from state prison in 2003 after serving a little less than two years of a six-year sentence for drug distribution and possesssion of a weapon by a convicted felon, the records of the state Department of Corrections shows.
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FREEHOLD — It started with a foot chase and a relatively minor marijuana arrest and ended with a borough man facing heroin distribution charges, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said.
Robert A. Shannon, 32, remained in the Monmouth County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail on Friday after investigators from the prosecutor's office, the Bayshore Narcotics Strike Force and the Asbury Park police said they found 1,350 bags of heroin, packed into 27 "bricks" of 50 apiece, at his residence, prosecutors said.
Bought in bulk, the seized drugs are worth a total of about $6,000, law-enforcement officials say. However, individual bags have a street price of $10 apiece.
Police also seized $2,850 in cash, Valentin said.
Shannon was arrested Thursday in the Monmouth Mall parking lot in Eatontown, Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin said. Information from the Asbury Park police department's street crimes unit had identified Shannon as a marijuana dealer operating near the mall, Valentin said.
When police approached him, they said he ran. He was arrested after a brief foot
chase and found with less than 50 grams of marijuana in his possession, prosecutors said.
Then a search of his residence turned up the heroin cache, police said.
Shannon faces third degree charges of possessing heroin and possession of heroin with an intent to distribute it, prosecutors said.
"This arrest again exemplifies the investigative success which can be achieved when law enforcement agencies combine their resources to attack the drug problem," Valentin said.
A public records check shows Shannon has prior arrests and convictions for drug and weapons offenses.
He was released from state prison in 2003 after serving a little less than two years of a six-year sentence for drug distribution and possesssion of a weapon by a convicted felon, the records of the state Department of Corrections shows.
