Abdul Frazier and Tyruice Boyer were arrested in the West Ward Thursday afternoon by state troopers who found him in possession of a 9mm handgun, officials said today.
TRENTON — Multiple gunshot wounds less than a year ago that left a Bloods gangster paralyzed were allegedly not enough to keep him out of trouble.
Abdul Frazier, 20, was arrested in the West Ward Thursday afternoon by state troopers who found him in possession of a 9mm handgun, officials said today.
Just 13 months ago, Frazier was shot multiple times in a parking lot across from a South Broad Street nightclub in a crime that remains unsolved. Despite his loss of physical mobility, Frazier was in a parked car on the 100 block of Oakland Street around 5 p.m. Thursday with Tyruice Boyer, a 24-year-old city resident who the State Police said is also affiliated with the Bloods.
Troopers from the State Police’s Targeted Integrated Deployment Initiative (TIDE), a violence-reduction surge into the city begun last August, spotted the two in the parked red Nissan Sentra. Knowing that Frazier, who currently lives in Philadelphia, had outstanding warrants, the troopers stopped and approached the car. When they did, they could see a handgun on him, said Trooper Alina Spies, a State Police spokeswoman.
A search of the car revealed another 9mm handgun that belonged to Boyer, Spies said. Both men were arrested and charged with unlawful weapons possession and possession of hollow-point bullets. They were being held on $100,000 bail, she said.
Trenton police said no arrests have been made in the shooting of Frazier last year outside Club 712 by a lone suspect. Two other people were hit by the numerous gunshots fired.
It was not the first time Frazier had been shot. He was shot and hit in March 2012 while exiting a convenience store at West State Street and Murray Street. The shooting happened just days after his brother, Quaadir “Ace” Gurley, had been wounded in a gunfight outside Rowan Towers, which sits on West State Street around the corner from the convenience store. Frazier lost his brother Gurley last July in a fatal shooting at a North Ward housing complex.
Frazier sometimes goes by his middle name Hakeem, or the street name “Hock.”
In November, police arrested Isiah Greene for the murder of Gurley. A second accomplice in that killing remains unidentified, and any connection between Greene and the shooting that left Frazier paralyzed last year remains unknown.
In 2010, Boyer pleaded guilty in federal court to a role in a large heroin ring that dealt in Trenton. In court in 2011, the leader of that organization had admitted to running a bustling drug dealing business that required at least 300 to 500 bricks of heroin per week.
The case stemmed from a March 2009 drug raid where nearly 4,000 small individual packets of heroin were seized.
In the fall of 2008, Boyer was arrested at an East Paul Avenue home with $65,000 worth of heroin inside, police said at the time.
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