An employee of Princeton University Dining Services was arrested while allegedly selling cocaine in South Trenton last Tuesday, according to newspaper reports and authorities.
The Times of Trenton reported that police found over $100,000 of cocaine in the car and apartment of the employee, Carrie Mae Ward, 32, of Morrisville, Pa.
Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser declined to name Ward but confirmed that a dining services employee had been arrested and said that the employee is probably going to be fired because she did not show up for work yesterday.
She was already on a three-day suspension for poor attendance, he added.
"It looks like [the University is] proceeding with termination, because she didn't return to work," he said.
A family member reached by telephone yesterday said Ward was still in jail.
Ward was arrested at 4:45 p.m. by investigators from the Mercer County Prosecutor's Special Investigations Unit when a man allegedly approached Ward in her car with $135 in cash, The Times said.
SIU detectives had been investigating Ward for three months, on suspicion of selling cocaine in Trenton after leaving her University job at 3:30 p.m., according to the Times.
Weiser emphasized that the alleged crime didn't occur on campus.
Police arrested Ward when Alberto Luis Martinez, 30, approached the car parked at the intersection of Lamberton and Cass streets. Detectives found 38 grams of powder cocaine packaged in 10 bags and $600 in cash in her car, The Times said.
A gallon-size plastic bag with more than two pounds of powder cocaine, three scales, packaging materials and marijuana were found in a safe hidden under clothing in Ward's closet, according to The Times.
Ward was charged with cocaine possession, distribution, possession with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute within 1000 feet of a school, and possession with intent to distribute within 500 feet of a park, The Times reported.
Representatives of the Mercer County Correction Center, where Ward was being held Wednesday on $250,000 bail, according to The Times, were not available for comment.
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