By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
A Hillsborough man and five others have been charged with the December home invasion of a reputed drug dealer in Sussex County, State Police said Wednesday.
Delquan J. Baskett and his accomplices targeted the Green Township home of 68-year-old Larry Gribler, authorities said. Mr. Gribler was not there at the time, but his wife was when the alleged robbery occurred around 7:35 p.m. on Dec.28, authorities claimed
Authorities said she responded to a knock at her door to find a young woman standing outside, only for three masked and armed men to barge inside, bind her feet with “plastic zip-ties,” put a bed sheet over her and threaten her at gunpoint.
She told authorities that she spotted one of the assailants run upstairs and return “with a partially full plastic bag.” It was not immediately known what was in the bag, but authorities said the suspects made off with cash and jewelry worth more than $500, authorities said.
Responding state troopers found marijuana in the house “in plain view.” Told of what had happened, Mr. Gribler came home and later went with authorities to State Police barracks.
Obtaining a search warrant for Mr. Gribler’s house, authorities claimed they had found $12,000 in cocaine, marijuana and paraphernalia used to distribute drugs. He was charged with cocaine and marijuana possession and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, authorities said.
The investigation into the home invasion continued, as authorities arrested the six suspects in the past few weeks.
Charged with kidnapping, robbery and weapons offenses were Mr. Baskett, 29; Jarrell C. Belle, 24, of Newark; Michael Johnson, 20, of North Brunswick, and Donte R. Crumidy, 36, of New Brunswick.
Elizabeth A. Cooper, 19, of Princeton, was charged with robbery, burglary, theft and weapons offenses. Morgan Ivory, 30, of Franklin Borough, was charged with robbery, two counts of theft and weapons offenses.
All were taken to the Sussex County Jail, except for Mr. Crumidy, who was already in Bayside State Prison when he was charged with the home invasion, State Police said.

