SC man convicted of eluding, cocaine charges

February 4, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO
Phone: (856) 384-5617; Pager (856) 251-4736

Brian G. Sheared (DOB 4/9/79) of Swansea SC was found guilty today (2/4) by a Gloucester County N.J. jury of possession of cocaine and eluding police after an attempted stop of his vehicle on Fries Mill Rd. in Franklin Township on Dec. 13, 2008.

Sheared faces up to five years in state prison on each of the third-degree charges. Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson scheduled sentencing for March 26.

In the 2008 incident, a Franklin police officer observed the defendant’s Ford Probe speeding shortly before 11 p.m., and as the officer turned to pursue him, the vehicle left the road and drove behind dwellings on two private properties on Fries Mill Road. Sheared was arrested after leaving the car and attempting to flee on foot. Retracing the direction the defendant took, the officer found a plastic baggie containing 3.7 grams of cocaine next to a colored scrap of paper with a phone number written on it. The defendant claimed ownership of the paper, but not the baggie.