Heroin Trafficking Ring In Hamilton Area Taken Down By Police

HAMILTON, NJ — A Hamilton man was among three to be arrested in connection with a heroin trafficking operation running out of the Hamilton and Trenton areas and in Montgomery and Bucks counties in Pennsylvania, authorities said.

Stanley Akers, 21, of Hamilton along with Sabree Burke, 30, of Huntington Valley in Montgomery County, PA and Roderick McKinney, 24, of Trenton were all arrested on Nov. 14, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri and Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced.

All three men has a large amount of heroin and cash on them at the time of their arrests.

Akers had 50 bricks of heroin (equal to 2,500 packets) and $3,730 in cash while Burke had 130 bricks of heroin (equal to 6,500 packets), a loaded .40 caliber Ruger with an obliterated serial number and $1,454 in cash and McKinney had 71 bricks of heroin (equal to 3,550 packets) and $500 in cash, authorities said.

The heroin bricks, each stamped with "Louis Vuitton" in red lettering, were worth a combined street value of more than $100,000.

Burke was charged with felony possession with intent to deliver, person not to possess a firearm, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number and related charges. Bail was set at $500,000 cash. He remains at Montgomery County Correctional Facility.

McKinney and Akers were each charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with the intent to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute within 500 feet of a park. They are being held at the Mercer County Correction Center pending detention hearings on Nov. 20.

"Burke’s arrest and the arrest of two of his main lieutenants, Akers and McKinney, has cut off a significant source of heroin in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Central New Jersey," said Steele. "Law enforcement is committed to working together to investigate and dismantle drug trafficking operations like Burke’s."

The investigation was led by the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force, Montgomery County Detective Bureau’s Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET), and the Bucks County Detectives’ Strike Force. Also participating in this investigation were the Abington Township Police Department, Hamilton Township Police Division, Princeton Police Department, Trenton Police Department, DEA, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit, Mercer County Sheriff’s Office and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department K-9.

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