Crime & Safety

Little Egg Harbor Man Arrested On Route 72 For Numerous Drug Charges

Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutors Office Special Operations Group and Stafford police had a search warrant in hand when they stopped Dominic Attino on Route 72 recently.

Attino, 45, Little Egg Harbor Township, was driving his 2002 Buick Rendezvous when he was stopped on July 23. When authorities searched the car, they found 357 Suboxone sublingual films, eleven 30 mg Roxicet pain pills and 11 blue pills which later tested positive for heroin and $7,378 in cash, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato said.

When the Special Operations Group and Little Egg Harbor police searched his home at Lakewood Court in Little Egg, they seized a quantity of MDMA, 38 Clonidine pills and $521 in cash, Coronato said.

Attino was charged with possession of CDS with intent to distribute a prescription legend drug, possession with intent to distribute CDS, and two counts of possession of CDS.  He was taken to the Ocean County Jail in Toms River in lieu of $50,000 bail, with no ten percent option, Coronato said.

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