The Atlantic City Police Department arrested a man on various first-degree charges related to narcotics trafficking.
On October 13, 2023, patrol officers responded to Tropicana Atlantic City in reference to security personnel locating narcotics in property that had been removed from a guest’s room during an eviction process.
The items recovered from the hotel room included 11,695 individual bags of heroin, more than 3.3 pounds of unpackaged heroin, 40 grams of cocaine, 820 ecstasy tablets, paraphernalia used in the manufacturing and distribution of narcotics, and three handguns. Detectives of the Special Investigations Section were requested to investigate the owner of the found contraband.
With assistance from Tropicana security personnel, the owner was identified as 42 year old Abdurrahim Abdullah of Atlantic City . Abdullah returned to the hotel on the morning of October 14 and attempted to gain access to the hotel room. He was taken into custody shortly after.