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Heroin, Ecstasy, Weapons Seized at Hopatcong Home, Cops Say

20-year-old resident was being tracked for a month, police report.

Michael Calo, 20, was arrested at his Hopatcong home for having drugs and weapons in his possession. Courtesy Hopatcong Police

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Michael Calo, 20, was arrested at his Hopatcong home for having drugs and weapons in his possession.

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After a month-long investigation by three police departments and the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, a Hopatcong resident has been arrested and charged for having a cache of illegal drugs in his home, Hopatcong Police Lt. Thomas Kmetz said.

Officers from Hopatcong, Roxbury and Mount Arlington, in conjunction with Sussex County Sheriff’s Officers and a K-9 unit, served an arrest and search warrant on Michael Calo, 20, at his home on Eugene Road at 1 p.m. Thursday, Kmetz said.

The warrants were a result of a month-long investigation into Calo’s dealings, Kmetz said, and a search of his home yielded the following:

Ecstasy with a street value of $9,220
$3,245 in cash
Marijuana packaged in dime bags for distribution
50 bags of heroin
3 suboxone pills
4 scales, two of which looking like cell phones
1 electronic smoking device
Several illegal knives

Calo was charged with possession of ecstasy, possession with intent to distribute ecstasy, distribution of ecstasy, possession of heroin, possession of suboxone, possession of more than five ounces of ecstasy with the intent to distribute, possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession of more than 50 grams of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, and will be charged with possession of illegal weapons.

Calo, currently unemployed, was arrested without incident at his home, Kmetz said. He was taken to Sussex County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.

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hopeful

11:20 am on Friday, March 22, 2013

Another great job by the HPD and the other area departments! Keep it up. Little by little this town may yet get cleaned up!

BeachBum

12:30 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013

Keep Flushing them OUT - Good to see Hopatcong has a BIG target placed on drug dealers - Keep up the Good work!

joe

1:47 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013

The department is doing a great job in cleaning up the town! Lets keep it up. Maybe less money toward light up message signs and more to the police department would help out to!

Donna Schuman

3:04 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013

Thank you Hopatcong police. Good job

Observer

3:04 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013

Great job HPD, et.al. Let's hope some opportunist doesn't surface to fill the void.

Ken DiMilia

5:06 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013

Normal looking isn't he!

Robert Hugues

10:04 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013

how about the charge for being 500 ft from a school zone

speedyspeed

3:33 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013

He's from the upper part of Eugene, near Narriticong...not within 500ft of a school zone.

S. Murray

5:42 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013

Now they are arresting extended members of the same core family! Good going!

Class of 96

5:54 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013

Keep this up guys and hopefully hopatcong will be like it once was. The tow I was raised in, the town I loved, and the town I moved out of because of the way it is now! Thanks for the hard work. Awesome job!

STATE PARK

7:01 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013

GOES TO SHOW HOW BAD HOPATCONGS DRUG PROBLEM IS. PART I DON'T GET IS THEY KNOW ABOUT THE DEALERS AND LET THEM DEAL THEY SAY THEY HAVE TO GET MORE ON THEM SEEMS THIS GUY HAD ENOUGH TO SUPPLY THE WHOLE COUNTY AND IN THE TIME THEY WAIT TO BUST THEM MORE PEOPLE ARE HOOKED.

Hopatcong Mom of Two

3:11 pm on Monday, March 25, 2013

State Park, Just to clarify this for you, the HPD and other agencies are doing this the correct way. The problem is at the Prosecution level. We need to write and contact Mr. Weaver, our Sussex County Prosecutor and demand he STOP pleading these cases down. This is the result of pushing the criminals thru the system and back to the streets before they are properly punished and rehabilitated. Hopatcong and Sussex County Sherrif and the Roxbury Police in conjuntion with these cases are charging them with the max crimes they can. Mr. Weaver needs to start enforcing the maximum sentencing on these dealers. His contact info is on the sussex county org website. Now we have Drug Court... which gives these animals even more rights and reduces thier sentencing. Give him a call.... Thanks.

ocean111

7:57 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013

Great Job HPD, this in one of the dealers who supplied the addicts arrested in October.

Diana Farrow Organes

10:53 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013

They are in for if. Tom Reed is the prosecuter.

Mr.Clean

9:21 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013

Hopatcong, Roxbury, and Mt.Arlington are so interconnected with drug scum, it's nice to see the three police departments working together. Nice work!

Jennifer

12:48 pm on Monday, March 25, 2013

Great job.....keep it up, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NC Girl

2:55 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013

S. Murray, no one in the family has been arrested or will be. Don't start rumors...

S. Murray

11:22 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

OH YES THEY HAVE!

S. Murray

1:37 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Naritcong?

adam gascoigne

4:23 pm on Wednesday, March 27, 2013

hopatcong police ?? when i lived there they were a corrupt department lenny crocken tom morrison andy diamond david davis all were out to make a name and move on busted for nothing to many times seems the police now actually care could it be true ?