BY Christopher Lang, Correspondent, @topherlang2 | MonroeNow | Aug 16, 2018
JAMESBURG – Local police arrested two Jamesburg brothers on Aug. 15 in connection to multiple drug-related allegations.
Cesar Ortiz, 22, and Frank Barbosa, 18, were arrested after several months of a joint narcotics investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Jamesburg Police Department, according to a statement from the two agencies.
On Aug. 15, officers conducted a search of the brothers’ Pergola Avenue home where they allegedly seized approximately 50 bricks of heroin, which police said was more than 2,000 individual dosage units, cash totaling $872 and a scale and grinder they say are both used to produce and distribute drugs.
Police charged Ortiz with third-degree heroin possession, second-degree attempt to distribute and two counts of possession with intent to distribute near public property.
Ortiz is also facing previous charges stemming from two indictments filed in 2018. In those cases, according to police, Ortiz was charged with resisting arrest, unlawful possession of a handgun, unlawful receipt of handgun ammunition, possession of a controlled and dangerous substance identified as cocaine, possession of a controlled and dangerous substance with intent to distribute, possession of a controlled and dangerous substance with intent to distribute near school property, tampering, and obstruction.
Barbosa was charged with a disorderly person’s offense for possession of marijuana in the Aug. 15 case.
The investigation remains active, police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Lt. Scott Crocco of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Drug Task Force at 732- 745-8390 or Sgt. Jason Muller of the Jamesburg Police Department at 732-521-0011.
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