'Sex, Money, Murder' arrest in Jersey City today (drugs, too)

by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
Friday January 09, 2009, 6:49 PM

More than 350 vials of suspected cocaine and nearly 100 bags of suspected heroin were seized when a reputed 5-star member of the Sex, Money, Murder set of the Bloods street gang was arrested at the Salem Lafayette Court housing complex in Jersey City today, officials said.

Abigi Shabazz, 22, aka "BG" of Martin Luther King Drive at Union Street was charged with multiple drug offenses including drug possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and within 500 feet of public property, reports said.

Based on information that Shabazz controlled early-morning drug distribution around the housing complex, narcotics officers set up surveillance there today and saw him come out of his residence at 7:05 a.m., reports said.

Officers watched him walk around the complex meeting with numerous people and at 8:45 a.m. he met James Gathers, 51, of Summit Avenue, and appeared to sell him drugs which Gathers stuffed into his left pants pocket, reports said.

Perimeter units closed on Gathers at Clinton and Monticello avenues and found a bag of heroin in the pocket with the logo "Over the Top," reports said, adding that narco cops then converged on Shabazz and found $397 on him after his arrest.

The officers then went to Shabazz's home where his sister answered the door carrying Shabazz's 2-year-old daughter, police said. Shabazz's mother gave the officers permission to conduct a search, reports said.

Inside a shoebox under a bed police said they found 98 bags of suspected heroin with the logo "Over the Top," as well as 364 vials of suspected cocaine and $1,640, reports said, adding that drug paraphernalia found included a scale and bags of empty vials and caps.