{"id":18908,"date":"2021-10-28T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18908"},"modified":"2021-10-28T04:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:05:28","slug":"brick-man-who-ran-drug-production-facility-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/10\/brick-man-who-ran-drug-production-facility-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Man Who Ran ‘Drug Production Facility’ Pleads Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victor Mendoza-Gutierrez and Jose Quintero. (Photos: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n

A Brick Township man and his co-defendant, a Manchester resident, pled guilty Wednesday to charges of maintaining a drug production facility following a series of police raids last year that netted over a kilogram of cocaine and quantities of several other drugs, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

Jose Quintero-DeJesus, 37, of Brick Township, and Victor Mendoza-Gutierrez, 26, of Manchester, both entered guilty pleas before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan. The state will be seeking an eight-year prison term for the pair when they are sentenced in December.<\/p>\n

Just prior to the execution of several search warrants in May 2020, Brick Township police arrested Quintero after a motor vehicle stop on his 2019 Ford F150. Mendoza-Gutierrez was apprehended at the Manchester residence. As a result of the investigation and execution of the search warrants, law enforcement located and seized multiple loaded firearms, approximately 1,050 grams of cocaine, 20 grams of methamphetamine, a quantity of marijuana, drug paraphernalia \u201cindicative of distribution purposes,\u201d a high-end security system, and approximately $30,000 in cash, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The investigation that led to the men\u2019s arrests took three months to complete.<\/p>\n

The agencies that investigated were: the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Narcotics Strike Force, Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Asset Forfeiture Unit, Ocean County Regional SWAT Team, Northern Ocean County\/Monmouth Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force (HIDTA), Manchester Township Police Department Narcotics Enforcement Team, Brick Township Police Department Street Crimes Unit, Brick Township Police Department K-9 Unit, Brick Township Police Department SERT, Lakewood Police Department Street Crimes Unit, and Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Office K-9 Unit .<\/p>\n

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A Brick Township man and his co-defendant, a Manchester resident, pled guilty Wednesday to charges of maintaining a drug production facility following a series of police raids last year that netted over a kilogram of cocaine and quantities of several other drugs, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jose Quintero-DeJesus, 37, of Brick Township, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,4484,4523,4047],"class_list":["post-18908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-jose-quintero-dejesus","tag-victor-mendoza-gutierrez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pjimage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}