Bloomfield Drug Bust: 750 Heroin Envelopes Seized

Bloomfield, NJ – A joint operation between the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and Bloomfield police on Friday afternoon resulted in several arrests and the recovery of 750 envelopes of heroin, authorities said.

According to the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, police coordinated the plainclothes operation at the intersection of Bloomfield and Watessing avenues in Bloomfield in response to “numerous complaints of drug trafficking in the area.”

During the sting, police allegedly saw a 2003 Mercury SUV with five men inside park at the above intersection. When detectives moved in to further investigate, the driver – later identified as Hector Rivera, 40, of East Orange – sped away.

Rivera soon pulled the vehicle into a nearby parking lot, where officers “quickly boxed it in,” authorities stated.

When officers approached the SUV, one of the passengers, Raymond George, 41, of Newark, allegedly threw a box to the car’s floorboards.

The contents of the box – 750 heroin-filled envelopes stamped “GOYA” in red ink – then spilled out onto the floor into “clear sight,” police stated.

Police then arrested Rivera and George, along with Yyoung Moore, 37, Bryant Twitty, 45 and Jamar Jacobs, 41, all of Newark.

Authorities charged all five men with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of CDS with intent to distribute, possession of CDS with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of Berkeley Elementary School and conspiracy to violate New Jersey’s narcotics laws.

Rivera was additionally charged with eluding police and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle.

Twitty was found to be the subject of open warrants issued by the Newark and Ocean Township municipal courts.

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