$100K In Heroin Found Inside Hamilton Man's Homes: Cops

HAMILTON, NJ — More than $100,000 in heroin and other drugs were found inside a Hamilton man's home following a month-long investigation, authorities said.

On Dec. 18 detectives with the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force searched Bryan Capellan's two homes in Hamilton in the 100 block of Marshall Avenue and Deutz Avenue, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri reported.

Inside they found 11,650 bags of heroin, 400 grams of raw heroin, 50 grams of fentanyl, three grams of marijuana and $19,291 in cash, Onofri said.

The total amount of heroin found had a street value of about $107,000. The fentanyl has an approximate street value of $800, Onofri said.

Capellan, 31, was arrested at his home on Deutz Avenue, Hamilton, and charged with first-degree narcotics offenses. He is being held at the Mercer County Correction Center.

Officers with the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office, U.S.Homeland Security Investigations, and the Hamilton, Princeton and Trenton police, under the command of the prosecutor’s Special Investigations Unit, helped with the investigation.

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