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Marlow Guerrier, 35, was sentenced on Monday, Nov. 4 to 12 years in state prison, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release on Friday, Nov. 8. He must serve at least six years before being eligible for parole.
Investigators said Guerrier — who worked a day job as a barber in Pleasantville — sold "larger quantities" of crack cocaine from four homes and two vehicles. Police executed search warrants on the vehicles at the homes in Atlantic City, Egg Harbor Township, Somers Point, and Galloway Township on Thursday, June 22, 2023.
Officers found Guerrier inside the Somers Point apartment with a clear plastic bag containing about three ounces of crack cocaine in his underwear and two more bags with crack cocaine located near the couch in the family room. Police also seized a 9mm Glock 26 gun from a bedroom safe, a high-capacity magazine loaded with 16 hollow-nose bullets, three digital scales with narcotics residue, and more than $90,000 in cash from drug deals.
In the Galloway Township apartment, police recovered a Stoeger 9mm gun with a high-capacity magazine loaded with 13 hollow-nose rounds and a Taurus 9mm gun with a high-capacity magazine loaded with 12 hollow-nose rounds. They also found two ounces of crack cocaine, spoons, a drug-cutting agent, two digital scales, plastic bags used to package drugs, a plate with drug residue, a blender, and a methamphetamine sifter.
Guerrier admitted to police that he owned the Glock and crack cocaine recovered in Somers Point, as well as the two guns and drug packaging items in Galloway. He had been previously convicted of selling drugs and is banned from owning a gun.
Guerrier was convicted of first-degree maintaining a production facility, second-degree possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, second-degree possession of a firearm while committing a controlled dangerous substance offense, and two counts of second-degree certain persons not to possess firearms.
As part of his sentence, Guerrier must also give up all of his guns, drug-related items, and $90,590 in cash.
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