An Atlantic City man spared a prison sentence this year is back behind bars after he was caught allegedly selling heroin in the city.
“Thank you and I’m not going to make a fool out of you,” Messiah Henry told Superior Court Judge Bernard DeLury, in June. “I’m just ready to do good.”
The 23-year-old man faced eight years in prison with no parole for four years when he racked up four new charges.
The judge noted that Henry’s crimes were all drug-related and coincided with his own drug use in giving him another chance.
But new charges indicate Henry is once again connected to drugs.
Detectives were conducting surveillance in the 1300 block of Atlantic Avenue when they saw Henry sell drugs to Frank Perry, and then walk away with Rahim Bobo and Qahshawn Reynolds, according to the police report.
Perry, 57, was stopped first and found in possession of heroin, Sgt. Kevin Fair said.
He resisted arrest, but was quickly taken into custody.
The detectives then stopped the three other men about two blocks away.
Henry was found with 50 bags of heroin, Fair said.
Bobo was found with five grams of cocaine and Reynolds — whose first name also has been listed as Qashawn — had prescription pills that were packaged for sale, according to the report.
Bobo, 23, and Perry were released on summonses.
Henry and Reynolds — who also avoided a potential prison sentence earlier this year — were both taken to the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
Reynolds, 22 had served 397 days in jail when he was sentenced in June in the 2018 robbery of a casino employee as she was getting out of her car in the Caesars Atlantic City parking garage.
He pleaded guilty to a third-degree theft charge and was released on the 13 months he already served and given three years’ probation, court records show.
Henry, Reynolds and Bobo are not charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute within 500 feet of a public zone and conspiracy.
Perry is charged with possession of CDS, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
