By: Yuritza Arroyo
Authorities in Ocean County announced that Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force collaborated with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Asset Forfeiture Unit, United States Drug Enforcement Administration – High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Group 5, and New Jersey State Police-Trafficking Central Unit to conduct an investigation into the distribution of cocaine in Ocean County.
According to officials, this cooperative, multi-agency investigation identified four residences in Toms River as being utilized by Christian Bultron-Rios, 37, Christian Bultron-Carmona, 18, and Anfernee Guzman-Romero, 26, all of Toms River, to store and distribute cocaine.
Officials say the investigation determined that this organization was importing large quantities of cocaine into the Ocean County area, concealed in children’s toy boxes.
Throughout the six-month-long investigation, all three defendants were observed distributing large amounts of cocaine throughout Ocean County. Detectives from the aforementioned law enforcement agencies initiated surveillance on the subject residences in Toms River.
According to authorities, on March 8, Detectives observed Bultron-Rios exit one of the residences carrying two children’s toy boxes.
Bultron-Rios was subsequently detained and found to be in possession of approximately one pound of cocaine in each toy box. Bultron-Rios was thereafter placed under arrest.
According to Detectives, multiple court-authorized search warrants were executed on their residences.
As a result, law enforcement seized – in combination from all four residences – additional quantities of cocaine and suboxone, a polymer assault rifle with high capacity magazine, a semi-automatic handgun, hollow point ammunition, and drug paraphernalia indicative of narcotics manufacturing and distribution.
Officials say Guzman-Romero and Bultron-Carmona were subsequently placed under arrest at one of the subject residences.
Christian Bultron-Rios was charged with Possession of More than Five Ounces of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, Conspiracy to Possess More than Five Ounces of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Cocaine, Possession of Suboxone, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bultron-Rios was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he is currently lodged pending a detention hearing.
According to authorities, Anfernee Guzman-Romero was charged with Conspiracy to Possess More than Five Ounces of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Controlled Dangerous Substance Offense, Possession of an Assault Weapon, Possession of a High Capacity Magazine, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Guzman-Romero was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he is currently lodged pending a detention hearing.
Christian Bultron-Carmona was charged with Conspiracy to Possess More than Five Ounces of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute. Bultron-Carmona was served with the charge via summons pending an upcoming first appearance in Ocean County Superior Court.