Bad Hiding Place? Fugitive Had Heroin, Guns Above Police Station: Report

The next time Lahmeir Hill tries to go into hiding, the Eatontown man might want to choose his hiding spot a little better.

Hill, who was wanted by the the U.S. Marshals New York New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force on a warrant for aggravated assault with a weapon, was arrested Monday outside the Freehold Borough Police Department, according to a report.

The Asbury Park Press report said Hill, 22, not only was hiding above the Freehold Borough Police Department, but that authorities say he had heroin, oxycodone and multiple weapons in the apartment where he was staying.

Hill is being held at the Monmouth County Correctional Institute in lieu of $790,000 bail, no 10 percent, according to jail records.

The Asbury Park Press said Hill was tracked apartment on the third floor of the Rug Mill Towers, a complex at 40 Jackson Street in Freehold, quoting a spokeman for the U.S. Marshals task force. That building also is home to the police department and municipal court.

Hill was arrested Monday when police officers from Eatontown, Freehold and marshals who were conducting surveillance saw him getting into a Dodge Charger in the building’s parking lot and descended on the car, the report said.

In the car they found three bricks of heroin worth $1,500 and a loaded 9mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun, the report said. A search of the apartment where Hill was staying turned up a loaded automatic .30 M1 carbine, a .32 revolver, two loaded .45 Glock magazines, heroin, oxycodone pills, $1,908 in cash and drug packaging materials, the report said.

Hill faces an extensive list of charges from Eatontown and Freehold police, the report said.

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