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TRENTON
– Attorney General Paula T. Dow and
Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor
announced that a Glassboro man who was associated
with the Bloods street gang was sentenced
to state prison today for dealing crack
cocaine.
According
to Director Taylor, Lamar Young, 32, of
Glassboro, was sentenced to 13 years in
state prison, including six years without
possibility of parole, by Superior Court
Judge Walter L. Marshall Jr. in Gloucester
County. He was sentenced as a persistent
offender to an extended term in the first-degree
range.
Young
was found guilty at trial on Feb. 1, 2011
of second-degree distribution of a controlled
dangerous substance for selling crack cocaine
on two occasions in Glassboro. That charge
was contained in a May 30, 2008 state grand
jury indictment. Young was an associate
of both the Fruit Town Brims and Nine Tech
sets of the Bloods.
Deputy
Attorney General Cassandra Serentino tried
the case for the Division of Criminal Justice
Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau and represented
the state at the sentencing. She was assisted
at trial by Deputy Attorney General J. Michael
Wicke.
The
case stems from Operation Bloodwork, a joint
investigation conducted by the New Jersey
State Police Street Gang Unit South and
the Glassboro Police Department, with assistance
from the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s
Office. Ten other individuals have pleaded
guilty to drug or weapons offenses as a
result of Operation Bloodwork, which focused
on the criminal activities of the Fruit
Town Brims in the Glassboro area.
Det.
Michael Flory led the investigation for
the New Jersey State Police, assisted by
Detective Michael Powell of the Glassboro
Police Department and Detective Pete Ferris
of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s
Office. Former Deputy Attorney General Christopher
St. John presented the indictment to the
state grand jury. Deputy Attorney General
Jill Mayer was previously assigned to the
case.
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