Eric K. Warugongo, 35, of Clark, was nabbed with over 500 tablets of oxycodone
IRVINGTON — A Clark man was taken into custody last week suspected of selling oxycodone pills at the Irvington Pathmark, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced today.
Eric K. Warugongo, 35, faces narcotics possession and distribution counts, the prosecutor’s office said.
Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, said investigators were tipped off that Warugongo was selling drugs at the Pathmark. He did not work there, she said.
Detectives from the prosecutor’s office seized Warugongo’s 1994 Cadillac and found 518 of the narcotic pain reliever tablets in the car. He was arrested a short while later.
An additional 225 tablets, $2,600 in cash were also found when officers subsequently searched Warugongo’s Lexington Boulevard home in Clark.
Carter said booking Warugongo, a native of Kenya, was complicated because he used multiple identities. Several identification documents were also found in his home.
“We were trying to confirm his identity,” she said. “He has a number of aliases.”
Warugongo was being held in lieu of $150,000 bail at the county correctional facility.
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