Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
A man awaiting trial in New Jersey on heroin trafficking charges was sentenced by a Bucks County judge Wednesday for a related case.
Ricardo Moise, 27, of Ewing, New Jersey, was sentenced to two to five years in state prison after pleading guilty to charges that he possessed a firearm illegally, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. Moise was barred from having a firearm due to his criminal record.
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Following a June 2015 arrest in Trenton, the Mercer County (New Jersey) Narcotics Task Force and Bucks County police searched a residence in the Racquet Club Apartments in Middletown’s Levittown section. A loaded 9mm Beretta semiautomatic pistol, which was reported stolen out of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was found in the apartment, authorities said.
In New Jersey, Moise is accused of have a large amount of heroin and cash along with guns in a car he was driving. In that case, he is scheduled to go to trial in late December.
Moise’s criminal history includes three felony convictions in New Jersey for drug-dealing and gun offenses, Deputy District Attorney Thomas Gannon said.
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During his plea, Moise asked Bucks County Judge Diane Gibbons to delay sentencing for two weeks so he could get his affairs in order. Gibbons ruled against the request and ordered him imprisoned immediately, the district attorney’s office said.
