Crime & Safety

Manalapan Man Hid Heroin in His Buttocks, Police Say

Incident recalls when a Keansburg woman hid Xanax in a plastic bag in her vagina​ in December.

Manalapan, NJ - A Manalapan man was arrested earlier this month, after police said they found him hiding 12 wax folds of heroin in an unusual spot: his buttocks.

Justin Black, 25, was arrested June 17 after Manalapan police officers searched him. The officers said they searched him after having probable cause to suspect he may have the heroin on him, and that's where he was hiding it. The 12 small wax folds of heroin were kept inside 3 small plastic bags, police said.

This is not a first for Monmouth County: In December a Keansburg woman hid Xanax in a plastic bag in her vagina, to avoid the drug being found by police. The drugs were found by police, but she then swallowed the pills before they could be confiscated.

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The wax folds of heroin were stamped "Heart Attack" in red ink and were giving off a white residue powder, police said.

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