For the third time in a week, law enforcement officials in Ocean County made a large-scale drug bust, seizing more than 400 grams of cocaine at a township home - owned by a Frum Yid - early Friday morning.
Acting on information developed during an investigation in concert with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, members of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office's Special Operations Group and Lakewood police officers executed a search warrant at 207 E. Seventh St.
Inside, they found the 425 grams of cocaine estimated to carry a street value of more than $40,000 as well as a .38-caliber handgun and drug packaging materials, Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford said in a statement.
"Our Special Operations Group has been tasked with the job of utilizing intelligence-based policing to identify and shut down significant drug operations in Ocean County. Once again, they have delivered," she said.
The bust came less than 24 hours after 1,950 bags of heroin were found inside a car during a motor-vehicle stop and two days after authorities raided five homes in southern Ocean County and recovered several pounds of marijuana.
None of the investigations was connected, and the fact that the seizures fell one after the other is coincidental, said Capt. Jack Sramaty of the Special Operations Group.
Arrested Friday were Pabolo Zavaleta Garcia, 23, and Angel Lopez, 36.
Garcia was being held in lieu of $500,000 cash bail at Ocean County Jail in Toms River. He faces charges of possession of more than five ounces of cocaine with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute within a school zone and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Lopez is being held in lieu of $5,000 bail and is charged with possession of less than a half-ounce of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Assisting in the investigation were members of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency's Atlantic City office. Toms River Police K-9 officers assisted in the warrant execution.
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