An Atlantic City man's eviction from a hotel room led to charges as a narcotics manufacturer Friday.
Abdurrahim Abdullah, 42, faces charges including maintaining/operating a manufacturing facility and money laundering after police were called to the Tropicana for narcotics security found in property removed from a guest's room during an eviction process, Lt. Kevin Fair said.
He already is a convicted drug dealer from 2018, court records show. Abduallh was sentenced to four years in prison in 2019, with parole ineligibility for two years. It was not clear when Abdullah was released.
On Friday, police seized 11,695 individual bags of heroin, more than 3.3 pounds of unpackaged heroin, 40 grams of cocaine, 820 ecstasy tablets, paraphernalia used in the manufacturing and distribution of narcotics and three handguns, according to the report.
Tropicana security assisted Special Investigations Section detectives in identifying the guest as Abdullah.
He was arrested Saturday, after he returned in an attempt to get into the hotel room, Fair said.
Abdullah is also charged with three counts each of possession, possession with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute within 500 feet of a public zone and unlawful possession of a weapon.
He was additionally charged with possession of narcotic paraphernalia, possession of hollow-point ammunition, possession of a large-capacity magazine, possession of a weapon while committing a drug offense, certain person not to possess a weapon, money laundering and possession of a ghost gun.
Abdullah is in the Atlantic County Justice Facility pending a detention hearing.
