Newark Parking Employee Sold Crack While In Uniform: Prosecutor

NEWARK, NJ — An employee with the Newark Parking Authority has been accused of selling crack while in his official uniform, authorities announced Wednesday.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Aughkay L. Green, 48, of Newark, has been charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Prosecutors allege that Green sold 38 grams of heroin to a person for $1,200 in January 2017. He’s also accused of selling the same person 49 grams of crack for $2,250 in March 2017, this time clad in his Newark Parking Authority uniform.

Green was also present for an illegal gun sale that took place in Irvington later that year, prosecutors alleged:

“In April 1, 2017, Green, accompanied by an unidentified male, met Individual 1 in Irvington, New Jersey, where Green’s associate provided Individual 1 with a Smith and Wesson Model 21 .44 caliber handgun, a Smith and Wesson Model 15 .38 handgun and 50 rounds of hollow-point .44 caliber ammunition marked ‘44 REM MAG FC.’ Green’s associate received $1,360 from Individual 1, and subsequently provided Green with proceeds from the sale and discussed using these proceeds for the purchase of narcotics.”

According to prosecutors, the count of possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute is punishable by a statutory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 40 years in prison. The count of heroin with intent to distribute count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The count of possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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