Former Stockton Cop Pleads Guilty to Selling Oxycodone-Based Pills

A former Richard Stockton College of New Jersey police officer admitted selling oxycodone-based pills to an undercover officer and a witness who was cooperating with law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced on Thursday.

No transactions involved students or took place on the Stockton College campus, and the man was not even in uniform at the time of the transactions.

Marcus Taylor, 41, of Sicklerville, resigned from the Stockton College Police Department in April of this year.

On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to an information charging him with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute oxycodone. As part of his plea agreement, Taylor will forfeit $8,775, consisting of the illegal profits obtained from his sale of oxycodone.

Taylor admitted to selling 537 oxycodone-based prescription pills o either an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer or the cooperating witness over five meetings between November of 2012 and January of 2013, according to documents filed in this case and statements made in court.

Each of these meetings took place in Clementon. Taylor arranged the meetings with the undercover officer through a series of text messages. Taylor discussed the price of the pills and his hope of fostering a long-term drug distribution relationship.

On Nov. 28, 2012, Taylor told the undercover officer that the 30-milligram oxycodone pills he sold the officer were obtained through a prescription issued by a doctor.

He added that if the officer was going to buy them every 28 days for $15, Taylor would save them for the officer.

The drug distribution charge carries a maximum potential penalty of 20 years of in prison and a $1 million fine. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14, 2014.

Fishman credited special agents and officers assigned to the Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area team, under the direction of the DEA Special Agent in Charge Carl J. Kotowski, for the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea.

He also thanked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office; the Westampton Township, Camden, Burlington City and Richard Stockton College police departments; the Delaware River Port Authority; and the N.J. Division of Criminal Justice for their work on the case.