Crack And Cash Seized, 4 Charged In Year-Long South Jersey Narcotics Investigation

CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ — A Winslow Township man faces a life sentence in prison after officials charged him with leading a narcotics trafficking network in South Jersey, the Camden County prosecutor said.

Three other people from Camden and Atlantic counties were arrested October 3 after a year-long narcotics investigation across several counties, Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay announced Thursday.

While investigating the narcotics trafficking network, officers found a processing facility for controlled dangerous substances. Officials also seized five kilograms of cocaine, $70,000 in cash, three vehicles, a 9mm firearm, body armor, and pre-packaged crack cocaine during the investigation and arrests, MacAulay said.

43-year-old Garry Carter is in Camden County Correctional Facility on first-degree charges of leader of a narcotics trafficking organization, possession with intent to distribute controlled dangerous substances (CDS), and maintaining a CDS production facility.

Lesser charges filed against Carter include money laundering, possession of CDS, conspiracy to distribute CDS, and attempt to possession with intent to distribute CDS.

Larry Saunders, 44, of Cherry Hill faces second-degree weapons and CDS distribution charges, and lesser charges of intent to distribute and possession of a weapon. Saunders is in the Camden County Correctional Facility,

Gordon Rose, 46, of Atlantic City and Anna Marie Tierno, 61, of Gloucester Township were charged with second-degree conspiracy to distribute controlled dangerous substances and released from custody, according to MacAulay. Tierno was also charged with third-degree money laundering.

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office Suburban Narcotics Task Force worked with prosecutor's offices in Gloucester, Burlington, and Atlantic counties, as well as with state police, the Camden County sheriff's department, and multiple other law enforcement agencies to make these arrests, MacAulay said.