Major Heroin Dealer Kept Secaucus Stash House, AG Says

SECAUCUS, NJ — One of New Jersey's top alleged heroin and fentanyl dealers, who was just arrested last week, used a luxury apartment in Secaucus as a place to store his illicit drug proceeds and park his luxury cars, including a $400,000 Bentley convertible, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said.

The alleged drug dealers leased an apartment at the XChange complex, at 4000 Riverside Station Boulevard in Secaucus, a spokesman for the New Jersey Attorney General's office told Patch. Led by Timothy Guest, 45, of Irvington, the men mainly operated their drug mill out of 300 Somerset Street in Harrison, a luxury apartment building across from the new Element hotel and near the PATH station.

But they used the second apartment in Secaucus as their stash house, state investigators say.

When police raided their Harrison apartment last Thursday, March 14, approximately 32,500 individual doses and four kilos of fentanyl and heroin were found inside.

The second location in Secaucus was allegedly used by Guest to store the enormous profit he made off selling the drugs. Investigators raided the XChange apartment last week as well, and said they found $193,000 in cash inside. In the XChange parking deck, they say Guest parked a Bentley convertible worth an estimated $400,000, and a Range Rover worth an estimated $130,000. Both cars were seized last week.

That's Guest pictured above. He led the ring, with William Woodley, 27, of Belleville and Selionel Orama, 25, of Cedar Grove, working under him, the AG said. All three men were arrested last Thursday.

The drug ring Guest ran was prolific, supplying 15,000 doses of fentanyl and heroin throughout North Jersey per day, the AG says. These men supplied the heroin that has been linked to 227 overdoses, including 84 deaths, police say, all identifiable by the brand names stamped on the wax folds of the drug.

Police have been quietly monitoring Guest and his associates for some time now: On March 14, the State Police Opioid Enforcement Task Force was conducting surveillance on the Harrison apartment when they saw Guest leave the apartment building with a black duffel bag suspected to contain drugs. He entered a Cadillac XTS. When State Police attempted to stop the Cadillac, Guest allegedly fled, striking two occupied trooper cars. The Cadillac became disabled and detectives placed Guest under arrest. Meanwhile, Woodley and Orama fled from the apartment building and were also arrested.

Investigators say they found 150 bricks of fentanyl in the black duffel bag in the Cadillac XTS. (A brick consists of 50 individual doses of narcotics packaged in wax folds.) Inside the apartment, they seized three kilograms of fentanyl, one kilogram of heroin mixed with fentanyl, 500 bricks of fentanyl (approximately 25,000 individual doses containing fentanyl packaged for distribution), and drug milling equipment, including 29 coffee grinders, kilo presses, wax folds, and respirator masks. They also found 43 rubber ink stamps used to stamp brands on the wax folds.

The Attorney General said the arrest of these men saved hundreds of people from possibly becoming addicted to drugs, or even dying from an overdose.

“We prevented countless doses of fentanyl and heroin from reaching drug users by taking down this mill, and given that the stamps seized bear the same names as drugs linked to 84 deaths, we may have saved many lives,” said Attorney General Grewal. “This operation reflects a proactive and collaborative strategy in which we recently deployed a new State Police task force, supported by a $2.8 million federal COPS grant, to target drug mills and other major drug sources as choke points in the supply line of these deadly opioids. This case is an early and tremendous victory for the Opioid Enforcement Task Force and our new strategy.”

The men face first- and second-degree drug charges, including a charge of maintaining a narcotics production facility.

Guest, Woodley and Orama were also charged with the following offenses:

1. Maintaining a Narcotics Production Facility (1st degree)
2. Possession of Heroin with Intent to Distribute (1st degree)
3. Possession of Fentanyl with Intent to Distribute (2nd degree)
4. Possession of Fentanyl (3rd degree)
5. Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (4th degree)

Guest is also charged with third-degree eluding police. Guest is being held in jail pending a detention hearing. Woodley and Orama were released subject to conditions following detention hearings.