Record drug, weapons busts made in New Jersey

(The Center Square) – Law enforcement agencies in New Jersey seized record amounts of drugs and weapons in two operations as prosecutions of earlier busts continue in the state.

Two men were arrested this week after a New Jersey Homeland Security Task Force investigation led to the largest seizure of methamphetamine in state history.

Marcos Cesar Acosta, most recently of Chicago, and Carlos Cordero-Guiterrez, a Mexican national, were charged in Camden with conspiring to distribute more than 260 pounds of meth, enough to kill the entire population of Camden County.

“By preventing hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine from hitting the streets, this historic seizure has made New Jersey a safer place,” U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Robert Frazer said. “And it has also sent an unmistakable message to drug traffickers who plan to enter the Garden State: stay out.”

With 200 milligrams of meth considered a le...