CNB Crime: Byron A. Sills Headed to Prison
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
WOODBURY NJ April 20,2015--Byron A. Sills (DOB 10/24/88), of Berlin NJ, arrested in Glassboro NJ in possession of more than an ounce of marijuana and a handgun, has been sentenced to eight years in New Jersey state prison.
Sills pleaded guilty to third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute and second-degree possession of a firearm while committing a CDS offense. On the recommendation of Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Staci Scheetz, Superior Court Judge Robert P. Becker sentenced Sills Friday (4/16) to five years in New Jersey state prison on the weapons offense and a consecutive three-year term on the drug charge.
Sills was stopped while driving in Glassboro on 6/21/13 after police received a report of a dog left in a closed car on an 85-degree day in the Crossings Apartments parking lot. The car left before police arrived, but Sills was stopped a short time later driving a vehicle matching the description received, with a dog in the car. An officer detecting a strong odor of marijuana led to a search of the vehicle and discovery of several sandwich bags containing marijuana, an unloaded 380 semiautomatic handgun in the car’s console and a handgun magazine in Sills’ pants with six 380 cal. bullets in it. The marijuana weighed 51.8 grams, or 1.8 ounces.