The Mercer County Special Investigations Unit executed search warrants for the Mellon Street apartment of 30-year-old Donald Jackson Thursday.
Donald Jackson TRENTON – A monthlong investigation into a Trenton resident led to his arrest and the seizure of an estimated $16,100 of crack cocaine, prosecutors said.
The Mercer County Special Investigations Unit executed search warrants for the Mellon Street apartment of 30-year-old Donald Jackson Thursday. Officers found 144 grams of crack cocaine and plastic bags in a box on top of Jackson’s refrigerator, a digital scale in a kitchen drawer, and two bags of marijuana in a bedroom dresser, the county prosecutor’s office said in a statement today.
Officers also searched Jackson’s 2008 Chevrolet Impala, where they found another 17 grams of crack cocaine, another digital scale and a fully loaded .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun that was defaced, the office said.
Jackson was arrested and his car was seized, the office said. He is charged with possession of a defaced firearm, possession of a weapon while committing a narcotics offense, certain persons not to possess a weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, and multiple counts of drug possession and possession with the intent to distribute. The total value of the crack cocaine seized is estimated to be $16,100.
Jackson is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail at the Mercer County Correction Center.
The investigation was conducted by members of the prosecutor’s office, the sheriff’s office and Trenton, Hamilton and Ewing police.
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