Thursday's arrest followed a two-month investigation by the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force
TRENTON -- Police seized drugs valued at over $100,000, nine guns and cash during a raid Thursday at a Trenton house that led to the arrest of a 37-year-old city man, authorities said.
Jason Little, 37, was arrested on multiple drug and weapons charges (Courtesy of Mercer County Prosecutor's Office) Jason Little faces 15 drug and weapons charges, and is being held on $350,000 bail.
Little's arrest followed a two-month investigation by the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force.
At about 4 p.m. Thursday, surveillance officers saw Little conducting what appeared to be drug deals at a house under construction on the 100 block of Passaic Street. He was also using a black Lincoln Town car, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said.
Just after 5:30 p.m., Little parked the car a few doors away, authorities said. He used a key to enter the house and as he was leaving, officers detained him. Little tossed a bag of marijuana upon his arrest, authorities said.
A search of the house turned up 962 grams of crack cocaine and powder cocaine, about 1.5 pounds of marijuana and about 6 ounces of Promethazine, a prescription sedative. The drugs had a street value of about $100,300, prosecutors said.
Police also found three shotguns, a .40-caliber handgun and a .357-caliber revolver inside the house. Little also had $8,913 in cash on him, authorities said.
Little's car was towed pending a search warrant.
Following Little's arrest, members of Trenton Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit searched several other abandoned houses in the area.
Officers recovered three semi-automatic handguns, a sawed-off rifle, multiple rounds of ammunition, about 15 bricks of heroin, about 40 grams of cocaine, about 50 grams of marijuana and packaging materials, authorities said.
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