Atlantic City Narcotics Dealers Off to Prison
Monday, July 10, 2017
TRENTON – Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced that a narcotics dealer from Cumberland County who distributed large quantities of heroin and cocaine in and around Atlantic City was sentenced to state prison today in an investigation by the Atlantic City Task Force.
Anthony Martin, 34, of Bridgeton, N.J., was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison, including five years of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Wild in Atlantic County. He
pleaded guilty on March 17 to first-degree possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and second-degree possession of a handgun as a convicted felon. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison with 54 months of parole ineligibility on the drug charge, and five years without parole on the gun charge, with the two sentences to run concurrently.
Martin was arrested on Dec. 11, 2015, in an investigation by the Atlantic City Task Force (ACTF), which revealed that he was distributing up to half a kilogram of heroin per week in and around Atlantic City, including from casino hotels, where he frequently maintained a room for the purpose of distributing drugs. The ACTF includes the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, New Jersey State
Police, State Parole Board, Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office, Atlantic City Police Department, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, Little Egg Harbor Township Police, Brigantine Police and Pleasantville Police. They were assisted in this investigation by the Egg Harbor Township Police Department. The task force frequently partners with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Bureau of Alcoh