Crime & Safety

Hillsborough Man Had Heroin in Englishtown: Prosecutor

Was also found with opiate painkiller pills on him Sunday, prosecutors said.

Manalapan, NJ - A 35-year-old Hillsborough man was arrested in Englishtown on Sunday and was charged with possessing heroin as well as other narcotic pills.

John Gutkowski was charged with having three wax folds of heroin, five pills of hydromorphone hydrochloride (Dilaudid), a controlled opiate painkiller, and two pills of anti-anxiety medication Alprazolam, said the Monmouth County prosecutor.

He also had two packages of Suboxone film on him, used in treatment of opioid dependence, prosecutors said.

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