Major Drug Bust in Ocean County Leads to Five Arrests

Major Drug Bust in Ocean CountyLeads to Five Arrests

The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office announced on Wednesday that a narcotics bust involving residences in Toms River and Brick as well as a hotel room resulted in the arrest of five people and the seizure of cocaine, heroin, and pills.

Following the searches on February 19, Tyrese Lett, 25, Kylah Parks, 28, and Rameek I. Peace, 38, of Toms River, as well as Kyle Murrin, 39, of Brick Township, were taken into custody and charged with several drug offenses, according to prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.

After officials discovered a Keltec 9mm pistol at one of the residences, the fifth person, Moises Martinez, 36, of Toms River, was taken into custody and charged with being a particular person not to possess a firearm, according to the prosecutor's office.

The arrests and searches on February 19 came after what the prosecutor's office described as a thorough investigation into local drug distribution that found two residences in Brick and Toms River were being used as drug storage facilities, according to Billhimer.

According to the prosecutor's office, detectives on surveillance noticed Lett and Parks driving through Lakehurst in a car, pulled it over, arrested them, and searched the car and the Toms River motel room.

49 grams of cocaine, 70 grams of crack cocaine, 16 bricks of heroin, morphine, alprazolam, and oxycodone tablets, drug paraphernalia, and around $25,000 in cash were found during those searches, according to the officials.

According to the prosecutor's office, Peace was arrested while walking along Route 37 after officers watched him leave his Toms River house.

After searching both Toms River residences, cops found the Keltec 9mm and took Martinez into custody while he was there.

Authorities added that 20 grams of codeine, hydrocodone pills, and drug paraphernalia indicative of narcotics distribution were found during the Brick Township search, and Murrin, who was present at the residence, was taken into custody.

The investigation involved the Narcotics Strike Force, Major Crime and Asset Forfeiture units of the prosecutor's office; the FBI Safe Streets Task Force from the Red Bank office; and Toms River, Brick Township and Berkeley Township police, Billhimer said.