Bloomfield Police Make Heroin Bust Near High School
Police say weeks-long surveillance operation preceded arrest.
Bloomfield police have arrested two men for heroin distribution following a three-week long investigation of a street drug exchange regularly occurring near Bloomfield High School, police said. Bloomfield detectives Sgt. Michael Sisco Jr. and Harry Norris began a surveillance operation on Belleville Avenue, close to Bloomfield High in mid- February, police said. Regularly during their surveillance, the detectives reportedly saw a green, 1995, four-door Lexus pull in front of an apartment building to conduct a “hand to hand” drug deal between the driver, Malik Y. Jones, 37, of East Orange, and Bloomfield resident William Fleming, according to a police report. Fleming would allegedly come out of the apartment building and hand over a white…
Enzo DiCostanzo
5:25 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
I am the first person to recognize the impact on the community and the danger involved, especially for law enforcement, BPD and ECPO, of conducting an operation like this. My appreciation and recognition is in print, on the Internet for everyone to see. The actors involved in these crimes have zero concern and regard for anyone but themselves, harming the neighbors or law enforcement is of no … more ›