{"id":23687,"date":"2024-03-08T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23687"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:17:32","slug":"brick-man-who-had-stocks-of-drugs-arsenal-of-weapons-sentenced-to-15-year-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/03\/brick-man-who-had-stocks-of-drugs-arsenal-of-weapons-sentenced-to-15-year-prison-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Man Who Had Stocks of Drugs, Arsenal of Weapons Sentenced to 15-Year Prison Term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henry Burns, 56, of Brick Township (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n

A Brick Township man will spend the next 15 years in New Jersey state prison for weapons offenses and drug distribution, a court ruled this week.<\/p>\n

Superior Court Judge Kenneth T. Palmer handed down the sentence to Henry Burns, 56, of Brick Township, on Friday.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, Burns was utilizing a residence in Brick as well as a storefront in Asbury Park to store and distribute cocaine. In early April 2023, detectives from a number of law enforcement agencies established surveillance on Burns\u2019 residence and store front. On May 17, 2023, detectives \u201cobserved Burns leave the residence and travel to a business in Red Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Narcotics Strike Force subsequently approached Burns and took him into custody without incident. Court-authorized search warrants were executed at his home and the store and, as a result, detectives seized various amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, naproxen, alprazolam, ten handguns, high- capacity ammunition magazines, multiple rounds of ammunition, and approximately $8,000 in United States Currency \u2013 all from the Brick residence, the address of which was not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Burns was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he has been lodged since his apprehension.<\/p>\n

Burns pleaded guilty in January to charges of cocaine distribution and possessing a weapon in violation of a court order excluding him from possessing a weapon.<\/p>\n

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A Brick Township man will spend the next 15 years in New Jersey state prison for weapons offenses and drug distribution, a court ruled this week. Superior Court Judge Kenneth T. Palmer handed down the sentence to Henry Burns, 56, of Brick Township, on Friday. According to prosecutors, Burns was utilizing a residence in Brick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23688,"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":[24,74,73,4484,5161,3231],"class_list":["post-23687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-distribution","tag-featured","tag-henry-burns","tag-weapons-charge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Burns.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6a3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687","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=23687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}