36 Indicted in Massive Camden Heroin Ring
"Operation Billboard," which targeted open-air drug markets in Camden, brought in suspects from Camden, Blackwood, Merchantville, Pennsauken and Cherry Hill.
A network of drug dealers in Camden’s Cooper Lanning and Bergen Square neighborhoods—36 men and women in all—were indicted by a state grand jury last week, the state attorney general’s office announced Friday. Dubbed "Operation Billboard," the arrests started coming down on May 30, 2012, for a heroin network in the heart of Camden that Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said involved gang members from members of the Ñetas and Latin Kings street gangs. The network raked in tens of thousands per week, Chiesa said. Joseph Rivera, 28, of Cherry Hill, also known as “Baby,” was one of six so-called "case workers," upper-level managers who dealt with street dealers to insulate the network’s top men. Rivera and the other case workers were …
Pete
8:39 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
If not, Obama will probably grant them amnesty anyway. more ›