Thursday, December 12, 2024

Search

Arrest Made for AR-15, Drugs, Cash

Joseph Fontanez

By Herald Staff

RIO GRANDE – Police arrested Joseph Fontanez, 41, of Rio Grande July 11 on gun and drug charges, according to a Middle Township police release.
The search warrant was executed by Middle Township in conjunction with the County Prosecutor’s Office and the County SWAT team.
The search yielded a stolen AR-15 rifle with a loaded magazine, over two ounces of methamphetamine, 500 prescription pills, MDMA ecstasy, cocaine and over $2,000. Police also said they found weighing and packaging tools typical of drug dealers.
Fontanez is charged with the following: Certain person not to possess a firearm, certain person not to possess a weapon, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a firearm during a controlled dangerous substance offense, seven counts of possessing a controlled dangerous substance, six counts of distributing a controlled dangerous substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Fontanez is being held at the Cape May County Correctional Facility.
Any charges are accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Spout Off

Cape May – Governor Murphy says he doesn't know anything about the drones and doesn't know what they are doing but he does know that they are not dangerous. Does anyone feel better now?

Read More

Cape May Beach – You will NEVER convince me in a ga-zillion years that our pres elect can find the time to put out half one texts accredited to him!

Read More

Cape May – The one alarming thing that came out of the hearing on the recent drone activity in our skies was the push for "more laws governing the operation of drones". While I am not against new…

Read More

Most Read

Print Editions

Recommended Articles

Skip to content