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Kyler “Babyboy” Wilkins, 37, has been in and out of adult prison since he turned 18, records show. His rap sheet includes no fewer than two dozen charges in that time, including attempted murder.
He was also involved in a shooting at an Englewood bar that seriously injured a security guard.
The 5-foot-9-inch, 250-pound Wilkins was free on $75,000 bail following his September arrest for gun and drug possession when Hackensack Police Detective James Dalton pulled his car over just after 11 o’clock last n ight.
After finding Wilkins carrying more than an ounce of marijuana and some crack cocaine, Wilkins searched the car and found a loaded .380-caliber handgun under the driver’s seat, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Police obtained a search warrant for Wilkins’ Hackensack apartment, where they turned up more drugs and $1,700 in alleged proceeds, Salcedo said.
Dalton had stopped Wilkins on Sept. 14 last year and stopped him from reaching into his waistband, where the detective said he found a loaded .45-caliber handgun.
Last night, a judge doubled the bail for Wilkins to $150,000.
He is charged with a host of weapons and drugs charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm — the same as in the previous bust.
Wilkins adult criminal history dates back to October 1993, when he was busted for having drugs on school property, among other offenses, in Englewood. He was 18.
A month later, he was arrested on a weapons charge. Released on bail, he was picked up for aggravated assault in early 1994 and spent a month in the Bergen County Jail, records show.
Within days, he was back behind bars in connection with a riot in Englewood.
But Wilkins skipped court and was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer a month after he was freed.
Back on the street, he was picked up again with drugs weeks later.
The crimes escalated — including charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault with a weapon in 1995.
Although authorities said another person pulled the trigger, Wilkins was charged in connection with the 1995 shooting of a security guard at an Englewood bar.
Wilkins later spent several years in state prison — but was picked up for a host of traffic offenses in 2002, which began a string of arrests for driving without a license or insurance, records show.
These continued until late 2011, in Hackensack and other towns.
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