Hunting Trip Gets Monroe Man Prison

PRESS RELEASE
June 10, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

A 2009 deer hunting trip has cost Manndel E. Mobley (DOB 3/5/73), of 1017 Crestwood Dr., Williamstown NJ five years in state prison.

A state conservation officer had received information that Mobley, a multiple convicted felon prohibited from possessing a weapon, was still wielding a gun in the woods. The officer encountered Mobley in hunting attire and carrying a shotgun as he crossed Blue Bell Rd. in Monroe Township NJ on Dec. 9, 2009. The officer, in plainclothes and in an unmarked vehicle, engaged Mobley and his companions in conversation and learned they were hunting. Additional officers were called to the scene and Mobley was arrested as he was getting into a pickup truck. Mobley was charged with possession of a weapon by a person prohibited as well as hunting violations for killing deer.

As his trial was about to begin on Aug. 26, 2010, Mobley pleaded guilty to the weapons offense and to a separate charge of eluding a police officer in a motor vehicle in Franklin and Washington townships NJ on Sept. 13, 2008.

Mobley, whose convictions include burglary in 1995 and illegal weapons possession in 1993, was sentenced on Wednesday (6/8) by Superior Court Judge Walter L. Marshall Jr. to five years in prison, the term negotiated with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office. He will be ineligible for parole for the full prison term. Mobley received a concurrent five-year sentence for eluding.