Oral Watson, Dwight Donald Lewis,Fabricio Zambrano,Laura Kida,Carlos Calle-Munoz All are charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
"There are drugs, there is money, there are guns," Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano said yesterday at his Totowa investigative headquarters, where he stood aside dozens of bundles of cash, 12 kilos of cocaine and an AK-47 assault rifle seized in the bust.
Timing is everything in business, even the drug business. That was the credo of a North Jersey narcotics gang whose payroll included a UPS truck driver who used his route to express-deliver cocaine, authorities said. A sweep of the ring, said to have ties to the violent Shower Posse drug gang in Kingston, Jamaica, ended Thursday with six arrests, including the driver and a gang ringleader, the seizure of $200,000 in cocaine, $85,000 in cash, two luxury cars, weapons and jewelry. Avigliano identified the alleged ringleader of the operation as Oral Watson, 31, of Paterson, who was arrested after he left the gang's safehouse in Hackensack and led police on a short foot chase. He is being held in the Passaic County Jail on $500,000 bail and is charged with cocaine possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, Avigliano said. Investigators described Watson as a high-level cocaine dealer who sold drugs to mid-level associates. He also was described as a man who led a lavish lifestyle, rented out large music halls and paid top-level musicians to perform at parties. Investigators seized two of his vehicles, a 2007 BMW and a 2004 Mercedes-Benz, and said his large Paterson home was full of designer clothes and about 300 boxes of shoes that belonged to his girlfriend. Amilcar Caballero-Pardo, 35, a Garfield resident and a UPS employee since 1992, was arrested Thursday at a company hub in Secaucus, said Ricky Rosario, a detective sergeant with the Passaic County Sheriff's Department and a member of the prosecutor's Narcotics Task Force/Gang Supression Unit. Caballero-Pardo allegedly delivered cocaine packed in computer boxes to the gang's ringleader along his UPS route in Teaneck, Rosario said. He is charged with distribution of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The arrests were part of an investigation by gang unit officers in the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with Elmwood Park police, with aid from other law enforcement agencies, Avigliano said. The ring distributed drugs out of Morris, Passaic and Bergen counties, said Captain Robert Prause, head of the prosecutor's Gang and Narcotics Task Force.,
Also arrested was Dwight Donald Lewis, 37, an alleged drug gang leader from Paterson, Laura Kida, 39, of Parsippany, Carlos Calle-Munoz, 26, of Dover and Fabricio Zambrano, 27, of Morristown. All are charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Timing is everything in business, even the drug business. That was the credo of a North Jersey narcotics gang whose payroll included a UPS truck driver who used his route to express-deliver cocaine, authorities said. A sweep of the ring, said to have ties to the violent Shower Posse drug gang in Kingston, Jamaica, ended Thursday with six arrests, including the driver and a gang ringleader, the seizure of $200,000 in cocaine, $85,000 in cash, two luxury cars, weapons and jewelry. Avigliano identified the alleged ringleader of the operation as Oral Watson, 31, of Paterson, who was arrested after he left the gang's safehouse in Hackensack and led police on a short foot chase. He is being held in the Passaic County Jail on $500,000 bail and is charged with cocaine possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, Avigliano said. Investigators described Watson as a high-level cocaine dealer who sold drugs to mid-level associates. He also was described as a man who led a lavish lifestyle, rented out large music halls and paid top-level musicians to perform at parties. Investigators seized two of his vehicles, a 2007 BMW and a 2004 Mercedes-Benz, and said his large Paterson home was full of designer clothes and about 300 boxes of shoes that belonged to his girlfriend. Amilcar Caballero-Pardo, 35, a Garfield resident and a UPS employee since 1992, was arrested Thursday at a company hub in Secaucus, said Ricky Rosario, a detective sergeant with the Passaic County Sheriff's Department and a member of the prosecutor's Narcotics Task Force/Gang Supression Unit. Caballero-Pardo allegedly delivered cocaine packed in computer boxes to the gang's ringleader along his UPS route in Teaneck, Rosario said. He is charged with distribution of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The arrests were part of an investigation by gang unit officers in the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with Elmwood Park police, with aid from other law enforcement agencies, Avigliano said. The ring distributed drugs out of Morris, Passaic and Bergen counties, said Captain Robert Prause, head of the prosecutor's Gang and Narcotics Task Force.,
Also arrested was Dwight Donald Lewis, 37, an alleged drug gang leader from Paterson, Laura Kida, 39, of Parsippany, Carlos Calle-Munoz, 26, of Dover and Fabricio Zambrano, 27, of Morristown. All are charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
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