Man Sold Heroin In Ocean, Monmouth, Mercer, Gets 8 Years In Jail

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Middlesex County man has been sentenced to 8-1/2 years in prison for heroin and cocaine charges, the Ocean County prosecutor's office announced.

David Jones, 45, of Cranbury, was sentenced Friday to 8-1/2 years with four years, three months of parole ineligibility by Superior Court Rochelle Gizinski.

Jones had pleaded guilty on Sept. 13 to possession of heroin with intent to distribute and to conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Gizinski sentenced him to a three-year prison term on the cocaine charge that will run concurrently with the heroin sentence.

Jones was arrested and charged on Feb. 26 following a nearly two-month long investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force into illegal drug activity in Ocean, Monmouth, and Mercer counties. Search warrants were executed on that date at an apartment in East Windsor as well as two motor vehicles and investigators found Jones was in possession of illegal narcotics for purposes of distribution in the tri-county area, Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said.

The investigation was handled by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Mercer County Criminal Investigations Unit, Mercer County Tactical Response Team, Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, Mercer County Special Investigations Unit, Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, and Ocean County Transportation Department, the prosecutor's office said.

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