An Atlantic City employee who allegedly had more than 17,000 bags of heroin and a loaded gun was ordered held in jail Thursday.
Alfred Fuller Jr., 46, of Galloway Township, was arrested at his home Aug. 10, after a search of the residence and two self-storage units led investigators to 342 bricks of heroin, $27,170 in cash, a quarter-ounce of cocaine, a loaded .40-caliber handgun, digital scale, hundreds of glassine bags and two cell phones.
There are 50 bags of heroin in a brick.
"I haven't been in trouble in 15 years," Fuller told the judge at the hearing.
He noted that he is employed full-time and said he wants to go home to his fiancee, 4-year-old son and two grandchildren.
"I just want to spend time with my family," he told the judge in arguing for his release. "I'm in no way at all a flight risk or harm to anybody in this world."
Fuller said he was also thankful for his support system.
"I don’t think I ever had a case where I had so many letters come in in support of my client," defense attorney Hal Kokes told the judge.
But Superior Court Judge Donna Taylor was not swayed from the recommendation of Fuller's public safety assessment, which recommended he not be released.
"The person that clearly his family and the community sees and has been shown by this defendant is not necessarily the person that is being shown here to the court," she said.
She pointed to prior convictions on drug and weapons charges. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 2001, and then seven years in 2006.
"Clearly his criminality is continuing and escalating," Taylor said.
Fuller works for the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, where his salary was listed as $37,032 as of December. He has worked for the city for five years.
