Police Arrest Man In North Brunswick On Drug Charges

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – A man was arrested in North Brunswick for allegedly operating a narcotics processing mill from a home, New Jersey State Police announced Thursday.

According to the police, Rikelvin Rodriguez-Reyes, 19, from New Brunswick was producing heroin and cocaine out of a house in New Brunswick. He was arrested at a North Brunswick residence on Monday, said police.

Rodriguez-Reyes was charged with maintaining and operating a CDS facility, possession and distribution of cocaine, possession and distribution of heroin, possession of marijuana, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a weapon during commission of a CDS offense, identity theft, possession and distribution of paraphernalia, and money laundering.

During a two-month joint investigation, the New Brunswick Police Department, State Police detectives with the Gangs and Organized Crime Central Unit were able to determine that Rodriguez-Reyes was distributing drugs from a Sanford Street address.

On Monday, troopers from the State Police Gangs and Organized Crime Unit, T.E.A.M.S. Unit, K-9 Unit, and members of the New Brunswick Police Department executed search warrants at the Sanford Street residence and a house in North Brunswick.

Authorities said they seized a .380 caliber handgun, a .22 caliber handgun, hollow point ammunition, 60 grams of cocaine, 100 individual doses of heroin, 1 ounce of marijuana, 18 prescription legend drugs, 20 fraudulent credit cards with a reader/writer device, $3,821 in cash, various distribution and packaging accessories, and tools consistent with a drug production facility.

Rodriguez-Reyes was lodged at the Middlesex County Jail pending a bail hearing.

The case is being prosecuted by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.