Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Galloway Drug-Mill Runners Face Heroin, Weapons Charges, Nabbed In Plain Sight
Two Galloway men ran a drug mill that was off-the-radar of local law enforcement for months.
Until this summer, when they were both nabbed - in plain sight.
The two men were indicted Thursday on narcotics and weapons charges, including a first-degree cocaine charge, resulting from an investigation by the Atlantic City Violent Crimes Task Force.
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Ruben Sewell, 33, and Lavelle Davis, 34, who reside together on Buck Drive in Galloway Township, were served warrants on June 7 when authorities found cocaine and a handgun in plain sight inside the residence.
They alerted the task force, which obtained and executed a search warrant at the house, seizing about half a kilogram of cocaine, 18 bricks of heroin - roughly 900 glassine folds - a .40-caliber handgun, nine illegal hollow-point bullets and over $32,000 in cash, according to the state Attorney General's Office.
Both were indicted on the following charges:
- Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (first degree)
- Possession of cocaine (third degree)
- Possession of heroin with intent to distribute (third degree).
- Possession of heroin (third degree)
-Unlawful possession of a handgun (second degree)
- Possession of a handgun during commission of a drug offense (second degree)
- Possession of a firearm as a convicted felon (second degree)
- Possession of prohibited weapons and devices (hollow-point bullets) (fourth degree).
The first-degree drug charge carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $500,000. The second-degree gun charges carry a sentence of five to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $150,000.
The gun charges also carry mandatory periods of parole ineligibility of five years for possessing a weapon as a convicted felon, and three to five years for the other charges. The third-degree charges carry a sentence of three to five years in prison and a fine of up to $35,000, and the fourth-degree charge carries a sentence of up to 18 months in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
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