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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a Millville man was sentenced to state
prison today for illegally possessing three
guns as a felon.
According
to Director Paw, Robert C. “Clean”
Woodward, 54, of Millville, former president
of the Cumberland County Chapter of the
Pagans motorcycle gang, was sentenced to
five years in state prison without possibility
of parole by Superior Court Judge John M.
Waters Jr. in Cumberland County.
Woodward
was convicted on May 9 of three counts of
possession of weapons as a convicted felon
following a seven-day jury trial before
Judge Waters. For each of the counts, the
judge imposed a separate sentence of five
years in prison without possibility of parole,
with the three sentences to run concurrently.
Deputy
Attorney General Daniel Bornstein tried
the case for the Division of Criminal Justice
Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau and represented
the state at sentencing. The charges stem
from an investigation by the New Jersey
State Police.
Woodward
was prohibited from possessing firearms
under New Jersey law because of a 1974 robbery
conviction in Cumberland County. The State
Police executed a search warrant on Nov.
11, 2005 at Woodward’s home on South
Wade Boulevard in Millville. Inside the
house, State Police detectives recovered
a Smith & Wesson .38 special revolver,
a British Bulldog .44-caliber revolver,
and a 12-gauge New England Firearms single-barrel
shotgun.
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