NEWARK — Essex County Sheriff’s detectives arrested a drug dealer and seized heroin along with crack cocaine at Newark’s Stephen Crane Village, marking the second day in a row that investigators made a drug distribution arrest at the public housing complex, officials said Friday.
Charlevester Anthony, 22, of Newark, was arrested Thursday after detectives stopped him with 88 decks of heroin, 11 Ziplock bags of crack cocaine and $159, according to Sheriff Armando Fontoura.
As investigators were watching the area, they saw Alis Ortiz, 41, of Newark, buy drugs from Anthony, the sheriff said.
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Detectives stopped Ortiz blocks away from the transaction and he admitted that he just bought two glassine envelopes of heroin, stamped with “Call of Duty,” according to Fontoura, who said Ortiz was charged with drug possession.
Authorities charged Anthony with the sale, possession and distribution of drugs.
Sheriff’s detectives launched the surveillance operation at the Franklin Avenue apartments in response to “continuous neighborhood complaints of open-air drug trafficking” at the complex, Fontoura added.
Narcotics detectives on Wednesday also arrested a suspected drug dealer at the North Ward apartments.
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