Cherry Hill Man Was Headed to Trenton to Deal Drugs, Prosecutors Say

A Cherry Hill man was carrying nearly three ounces of cocaine and a loaded handgun when authorities nabbed him in Trenton last week, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

Edwin Febus, 21, was outside the train station in the state capital Thursday when officers from multiple jurisdictions, including Ewing, Hamilton and Lawrence townships and the prosecutor’s office, grabbed him.

They were acting on information Febus was headed to Trenton to deal drugs and was coming armed, prosecutors said, and got warrants to search him and his backpack after detaining him at 5:10 p.m.

Those searches yielded 78 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of $7,800, a loaded .357-caliber handgun and $20 in cash, prosecutors said.

Febus, who was sentenced to two years probation last fall for assaulting a police officer, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with the intent to distribute, possession of a handgun while committing a narcotics offense and certain persons not to possess a weapon.

He was lodged in the Mercer County Jail in lieu of $175,000 bail.