Mullica PD Assists Pleasantville PD

Undercover operations by members of Atlantic County, Ocean County and municipal law enforcement entities yielded a list of more than 20 suspected criminals, Riggin said.

The undercover team bought drugs from sellers on Main Street, Pleasantville.  Selling to an undercover officer is a third-degree criminal offense.

Many of the traffickers were homeless, occupied vacant buildings and usually were middlemen in the distribution, police said.

During the raids, armed teams surrounded the buildings known to be vacant or abandoned. Some appeared lived-in, but no one was seen. But an abandoned home on West Decatur Avenue proved otherwise.

Police entered the home in the early morning April 21 through an unlocked sliding-glass door facing the road. Two people were sleeping on twin mattresses on the floors of two separate rooms, next to piles of wrappers, cigarette packs, plastic bottles, air freshener canisters, plastic bags and cardboard boxes.

The agencies involved include the Atlantic County Sheriff's Office, Atlantic County Justice Facility, Atlantic and Ocean county prosecutor's offices, Egg Harbor City Police Department, Northfield Police Department, Mullica Township Police Department, New Jersey State Parole and the Atlantic City Task Force.

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