High-ranking member of Jersey City gang sentenced to nearly 19 years on drug conviction

A high-ranking subordinate of a Jersey City thoroughfare pack has been sentenced to nearly 19 years successful national prison connected a cause conviction, national prosecutors said Wednesday.

Jamil King, 32, was convicted earlier this twelvemonth connected a complaint of possession with intent to administer cocaine.

According to Philip R. Sellinger, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, instrumentality enforcement officials obtained a hunt warrant for King’s Jersey City location successful the summertime of 2022.

While King fled erstwhile constabulary showed up astatine his residence connected the evening of July 8, officers recovered astir 50 grams of cocaine from a brace of yellowish sweatpants recovered successful the apartment.

The pants, which matched the sweatshirt helium was seen wearing that night, also contained his DNA, according to prosecutors.

King, a known subordinate of a Jersey City pack known arsenic Parkside, was arrested a fewer days aboriginal and indicted by a expansive assemblage successful March 2023.

Earlier this year, astatine the extremity of a two-day proceedings successful Newark national court, a assemblage convicted King of possession with intent to administer cocaine.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas sentenced King to 225 months — oregon 18 years and 9 months — successful national situation followed by 3 years of supervised release.