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This is what happens when you get involved with a convicted felon who gets paroled....people have been getting popped around that area for weeks now mysteriously...Rumor has it some portugese kid is the snitch....didn't get his name but alot of people are talking....

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Originally posted by ericone

damn i know alotta garwood heads i went to hs with. hope none of them are caught up....wow, bill ragakis, hows that fuckin kid?

last time i saw him was 5 months ago at the gym then he just vanished haha. i wonder what carl they are talking about how old is he does anyone know and what does his last name start with.

oh yeah eric's a feg

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Accused drug boss kept low profile

Thursday, December 18, 2003

BY JUDITH LUCAS

Star-Ledger Staff

David Hill never had a run-in with local police. He and his girlfriend lived quietly in a rented two- story house on a dead-end street in Garwood.

They didn't speak to their neighbors and kept to themselves. They surfaced late at night heading for their Cadillac Escalade or the Nissan 350Z parked across the street.

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The low profile was a perfect way for 31-year-old Hill to bring in cocaine, cut it and sell it to his distributors, said Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow.

When police raided the house on Nov. 26, they found 23 guns, some poking out from under sofa cushions. Thirty-five pounds of cocaine, estimated at $3 million, were wrapped in plastic and stuffed into shoe boxes and inside cabinets. Gallon containers of acetone, a cutting agent used to stretch the quantity of cocaine, were found in a kitchen and bathroom.

"Hill was a major drug dealer," Romankow said yesterday.

"We found a small arsenal of guns at his house, which tells you how dangerous these guys are. They are a menace to the general public," Romankow said. "These guys must be kept off the street."

Hill's arrest came during three weeks of raids and arrests that ended Tuesday. Towns where arrests were made include Elizabeth, Newark, Roselle and Rahway.

Among those caught in the sweep was Hill's alleged main buyer, John Sosa, a 32-year-old barber who ran the Chop Shop in Elizabeth. Sosa is being held on $3 million bail in Union County Jail and was charged Tuesday with being the leader of a drug-trafficking network.

Authorities seized Sosa's three vehicles, a Porsche, a BMW 745I and BMW X5, plus $100,000 in cash.

Sosa faces life in prison if convicted. Romankow said he wants Hill to face the same penalty. The prosecutor said he may refer Hill's case to the U.S Attorney's Office so he can be charged in federal court and face up to life in prison, instead of the 10 to 20 likely in the state court.

Hill, according to Romankow, was able to supply at least 4 pounds of cocaine a week to Sosa.

Union County authorities are convinced they have broken up a major drug operation. Romankow and other investigators believe the drugs were smuggled in from South America and brought into Union County by Hill and suspected heroin supplier Adriana Laverde, 32, of Glendale, N.Y.

Laverde was arrested Nov. 25 and is being held in Union County on $500,000 bail.

"This was such a huge volume and extremely profitable operation that we know was capable of putting millions of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine on the street," said Capt. Edward Fitzgerald of the Union County Strike Force.

"We feel we have taken down high-level operators in Union County," said Assistant Union County Prosecutor Daria Smith. "The amount of guns we found caught us by surprise."

Neighbors were surprised, too, although some said they wondered how the couple could afford such nice cars when they never seemed to go to work.

"I've been here 2 1/2 years; I never saw them outside except at night," said Russ Frame, who lives across the street from Hill's house at 679 Willow Ave. "I suspected they were drug dealers."

Local police suspected nothing.

"It's impossible to keep track of these stash houses," said Garwood Police Chief Dennis Lesak. "He (Hill) comes and goes and nobody notices. We can't be everywhere. We are spread thin."

Drugs are everywhere, so Lesak said he was not surprised police found drugs in the house. The quantity and the number of weapons surprised him though, he said, adding that it indicates "this guy was loaded and ready for war. This was not a low-level punk. You are talking millions of dollars of drugs."

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Originally posted by ceepee

"I've been here 2 1/2 years; I never saw them outside except at night," said Russ Frame, who lives across the street from Hill's house at 679 Willow Ave. "I suspected they were drug dealers."

ANY ONE WANT TO TAKE A WILD GUESS WHO'S GETTIN SHOT OR WHOSE HOUSE WILL BURN DOWN IF THIS GUY GETS MAKES BAIL???

WHAT AN IDIOT. :doh:

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Originally posted by daitaliangreek

in my small ass town, garwood. lot of big people went down. . $3 million in cash, chop shop in elizebeth got raided. what a mess. . . .

Garwood, wow i ahvent heard that town in a long ass time. I used to know a girl from there. Right near clark and westfiled right?

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