Crime & Safety

Brick Pair Indicted On Drug Charges

Two young men were caught with large amount of marijuana in Herbertsville Road traffic stop

A grand jury on Thursday handed up an indictment of two Brick men on drug charges.

Austin Copland, 20, of Primrose Lane., and Robert Steel, 19, of Stratford Drive. each were indicted on one count of drug possession and one count of drug possession with the intent to distribute, according to the indictment.

The two were pulled over on Herbertsville Road for not maintaining a lane and use of a cell phone without a hands-free device and found to have more than a pound of marijuana in the car, police have said.

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