Jerome Roberts was arrested at his home on Division Street, where officers found 57 bricks of heroin.
Jerome Roberts TRENTON — In its first investigation since merging with the Trenton police vice unit, the Mercer County Special Investigations Unit seized $28,500 in heroin and arrested a city man today, officials said.
Jerome “Righteous” Roberts, 42, was arrested at 12:40 p.m. at his home on the 700 block of Division Street. Inside the house, officers found 57 bricks of heroin, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release.
Roberts was arrested on a porch in the front of the home and the heroin was found in a bag behind a couch in the living room, the release said.
The heroin was the equivalent of 2,850 bags, or $28,500. Roberts had $590 in cash on him at the time of his arrest, the prosecutor’s office said.
This was not Roberts’ first brush with the law.
In 2007, Roberts pleaded guilty to his role in the 2001 murder of rival drug dealer Robert Priester, the prosecutor’s office said. Roberts admitted to conspiring to hire two Long Branch men to shoot and kill Priester, who was sitting in a parked car on Calhoun Street in Ewing. Roberts was on parole when he was arrested, officials said.
Roberts is charged with possession of heroin, possession with the intent to distribute, possession with the intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He was being held at Mercer County Correction Center in lieu of $150,000 full cash bail conditioned upon a source hearing.
Contact Alyssa Mease at amease@njtimes.com or (609) 989-5673.
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