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For Immediate Release:  
For Further Information:
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October 24, 2008  

Peter Aseltine
609-292-4791

Office of The Attorney General
- Anne Milgram, Attorney General
Division of Criminal Justice
- Deborah Gramiccioni, Director

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Burlington County Man Sentenced to State Prison on First-Degree Cocaine Charge

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TRENTON – A Burlington County man was sentenced to state prison today for possessing more than 5 ounces of cocaine that he intended to distribute, Attorney General Anne Milgram announced.

James Ellis, 47, of Mt. Holly, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in state prison, including five years and three months of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Patricia R. LeBon in Burlington County. Ellis pleaded guilty on June 20 to a charge of first-degree possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Ellis also must forfeit $7,500 seized at the time of his arrest.

Deputy Attorney General Andrew M. Butchko prosecuted the case and handled today’s sentencing for the Division of Criminal Justice Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau.

The charge was contained in a state grand jury indictment obtained on April 9 as a result of an investigation by the New Jersey State Police Organized Crime Control Bureau - Street Gang Central Unit, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Division of Criminal Justice.

As a result of the investigation, members of the State Police and the ATF Violent Gang Task Force arrested Ellis at his Mill Street home in Mount Holly on Oct. 15, 2007. Detectives searched Ellis and his residence and recovered more than 5 ounces of cocaine.

Ellis was also sentenced today in a separate case on a charge filed by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office of third-degree possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Judge LeBon sentenced Ellis to four years in state prison with two years of parole ineligibility on that charge, with the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence on the first-degree charge.

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