Massive Heroin Bust in South River Home

South River, NJ - South River police raided a home Thursday morning, March 3, that resulted in a massive heroin bust — in total, more than 11 bricks of heroin, crack cocaine, prescription pills and marijuana were found in the South River home.

At 7 a.m. Thursday, police executed a search warrant for a home on Stanton Street. Inside the home, police found more than 11 bricks of heroin, totaling over 550 decks, along with crack cocaine, 20 Roxycodone pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Roxycodone is a narcotic painkiller.

A car and $1,286 in suspected drug money were also seized.

A woman who lived in the home, Dawn Proctor, 41, as arrested and charged with multiple drug offenses, including intent to distribute heroin. She was held on a $75,000 bail.

Heroin is plentiful and cheap throughout central New Jersey: Thursday's raid comes days after police in East Brunswick found 71 bags of heroin on a man during a traffic stop in town. Patch also interviewed a young Middlesex college grad who became addicted to heroin in college. Read his story about how addictive heroin really is, and how he fought back to achieve sobriety.

The Stanton Street raid was the result of an ongoing narcotics investigation conducted by the South River Police Department Detective Bureau.