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Police Find Pounds of Heroin in Home Across From South Jersey High School

Ismael Martinez is accused of drug dealing. Police raided an apartment near Holy Spirit High School.

Police found nearly 7 pounds of heroin, 3 ounces of cocaine and drug dealing materials in a home adjacent to a South Jersey high school.

A tip about drug activity led Absecon police to serve a search warrant on a unit at the Clayton Mill Run apartment complex along S. New Road Friday.

In the home, investigators found about 3 kilos (6.6 pounds) of heroin along with "drug paraphernalia associated with the manufacturing, packaging and distribution of controlled dangerous substances," the Absecon Police Department said in a Nixle message.

Police charged Ismael Martinez with a variety of drug dealing charges and placed him in Atlantic County Jail. The 32-year-old Egg Harbor Township man faces extra charges since the alleged drug dealing took place in the school zone of Holy Spirit High School, which is across U.S. Route 9.

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