Brick Police Find Heroin After Man Stopped For Erratic Driving

BRICK, NJ — Two men were arrested last week by the Brick Township Police Department's Street Crimes Unit, police said Monday.

Both arrests were made on March 2, Patrol Officer Victoria Finelli said.

At 8:30 p.m. detectives saw a man on a bicycle riding through various parking lots on Route 88, stopping people in vehicles and on foot, and appearing to detectives trying to obtain drugs, she said.

Police stopped Gerald Snyder, 39, of Brick Township, in the parking lot of Dollar Tree at 1930 Route 88. During the investigation, detectives determined he was under the influence of CDS and told him he was under arrest, Finelli said.

As detectives told him he was under arrest, Snyder charged at the officers and a scuffle began, she said. During the scuffle, Snyder tried to grab a pocket knife in his pocket. He was eventually arrested and was found with an unspecified quantity of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia, Finelli said.

Snyder was charged with loitering to obtain CDS, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, resisting arrest, obstruction, possession of a weapon (pocket knife), possession of crack cocaine, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and under the influence of a CDS. Snyder is being held at the Ocean County Jail.

About 10:15 p.m., Barry Ellenwood 2nd, 35, of Wharton, was pulled over after Patrolman Morgan Murphy saw an erratic driver on Brick Boulevard, who was not maintaining his lane and was using his cell phone while he was driving, Finelli said.

Street Crimes detectives assisted Murphy, and Ellenwood was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice after failing to obey officers’ commands to get out of the vehicle, she said.

Detectives searched the vehicle and found five bundles of heroin packaged for sale, along with "a large amount of currency," Finelli said.

Ellenwood was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, possession of CDS in a motor vehicle, possession of heroin, obstruction, failure to maintain lane, use of a hands-free cellular phone and tinted windows, she said.

Ellenwood was taken to the Ocean County Jail and later released pending further court action.

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