TRENTON
– Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa
announced that a Camden man was sentenced
to state prison today for distributing crack
cocaine as part of two drug networks that
distributed large quantities of cocaine and
heroin in the Camden area.
Carlton
Riley Jr., 21, of Camden, was sentenced
to eight years in state prison, including
four years of parole ineligibility, by Superior
Court Judge Samuel D. Natal in Camden County.
He pleaded guilty on March 2, 2012 to a
charge of second-degree racketeering. The
charge was contained in a Nov. 3, 2011 indictment
stemming from Operation City Wide, an investigation
conducted by the Division of Criminal Justice,
with assistance from the Camden Police Department,
Camden County Prosecutor’s Office
and numerous other law enforcement agencies.
In
pleading guilty, Riley admitted he served
as a street-level dealer or “trapper”
for the drug network targeted in Operation
City Wide, distributing crack cocaine on
numerous occasions and keeping a portion
of the proceeds of the drugs he sold. Deputy
Attorney General Jill Mayer took the guilty
plea and handled the sentencing for the
Division of Criminal Justice Gangs &
Organized Crime Bureau.
Riley
was also sentenced today to three years
in prison, including a year of parole ineligibility,
on his guilty plea to a charge of third-degree
distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet
of a school. That charge was contained in
a Dec. 12, 2011 indictment stemming from
Operation Jumpstart, an investigation by
the New Jersey State Police, Camden County
Prosecutor’s Office, Gloucester County
Prosecutor’s Office, New Jersey Division
of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
and other members of the High-Intensity
Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Joint Camden
Task Force. That sentence will run concurrently
with the longer sentence. Deputy Attorney
General Kristen Harberg prosecuted that
case for the Division of Criminal Justice
Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau.
The
City Wide indictment charged the alleged
head of the ring, Kyle Ogletree, 28, of
Cherry Hill, a reputed five-star general
in the G-Shine Bloods, and 13 other defendants
with first-degree racketeering for allegedly
distributing cocaine, heroin and PCP as
part of a drug network based in South Camden.
The Jumpstart indictment charged 28 people,
including Luis Burgos, 33, of Camden, an
alleged ringleader and major cocaine supplier,
with first-degree racketeering in connection
with another cocaine and heroin network
in the Camden area. The charges against
most defendants in the two state grand jury
indictments are pending, and they are presumed
innocent until proven guilty.
