Investigators also recovered a sawed-off shotgun and shells, a .380 semi-automatic handgun and a large-caliber magazine, a rifle scope and other ammunition, the prosecutor's office said.
Dorian Fleming
Eric Hicks
TRENTON — A raid of a city home early Tuesday morning resulted in two arrests and uncovered a handgun in the refrigerator and 20 bags of marijuana in the basement, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said.
The prosecutor’s Special Investigations Unit had spent a week investigating the house on the 500 block of Genesee Street. The office obtained search warrants and entered the home on Tuesday at 5:30 a.m.
Dorian Fleming, 26, who lives at the address, was arrested along with Eric Hicks, 29, of Philadelphia. The home was searched by by SIU detectives, and Ewing, Hamilton, Lawrence and Trenton police officers, who found a sawed-off shotgun and shells in the basement along with the bags of marijuana and a .380 semi-automatic handgun and large-caliber magazine in the refrigerator, the prosecutor’s office said.
The officers found a rifle scope in the living room and multiple holsters and bullets throughout the house.
Fleming was charged with counts of certain persons not to possess a firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine, and Hicks was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession with the intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of a firearm while committing a narcotics offense.
Both are incarcerated at the Mercer County Correction Center, Fleming on $150,000 bail and Hicks on $50,000.