Loaded Gun, Cocaine In Abandoned Backpack Lead To Drug-Filled Secaucus Apartment: Cops

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — After a maintenance worker found a backpack with a loaded gun in a large Secaucus apartment complex, police found drugs and cash in a man's apartment and car, police said.

Josaih C. Agbo, 30, of Secaucus was arrested Wednesday on multiple drug and weapons charges, police said.

Police in Secaucus said that around 1 p.m., an employee of Xchange told police that a maintenance worker had found a backpack near the 6000/8000 building on Riverside Station Boulevard.

Inside the backpack was a Ruger .45 caliber handgun loaded with hollow point ammunition, including a round in the chamber.

Police also found approximately 10 ounces of suspected cocaine and over one pound of suspected marijuana, they said.

Police had already responded to a call for service to an apartment at 6000 Riverside Station Boulevard in the early morning hours the day before.

Police determined that the person inside the unit, Josaih C. Agbo, 30, must have discarded the backpack before police arrived.

He was arrested near his apartment by members of the Anti-Crime Unit and Secaucus Police K-9 Unit shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

Police say they searched his apartment and found approximately two ounces of suspected cocaine, approximately four pounds of suspected marijuana, two “high-capacity” handgun magazines, 100 Xanax pills, over 200 pills of Oxycodone, and over 80 pills of Adderall. They also found more than $22,700 in cash, "which is believed to have been derived from nefarious activity," police said.

Police also found 45 credit cards that were suspected to be fraudulent, they said.

Then detectives then searched Agbo's car.

More In The Car

Inside the Chevrolet Malibu, police found more than $2,700 in cash, over 290 Oxycodone pills, and more than 60 Adderall pills, they said.

“The proximity of our Police Annex at the Xchange complex allowed for an instantaneous response to this incident, but I am thankful that a child didn’t discover this loaded handgun first,” Chief Dennis Miller said.

Agbo was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun, certain persons not to possess a handgun, five counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, possession of high-capacity magazine, possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of High-Tech High School, endangering the welfare of a child, and other drug and weapons charges.

He was taken to the Hudson County Jail.

Police noted that they accept tips at (201) 330-2049, spdtips@secaucusnjpolice.gov and anonymously through the department’s website at www.secaucuspolice.org.