"IT'S CALLED TEAMWORK"      On June 3, 2004 Linden Police Officers Kris Tomko and Mark Evan were detailed to the Swan Motel, located on Route 1, in response to the report of a 9-1-1 call and a woman bleeding profusely from the head. The exact nature of the call was unknown. Lt. Don Tempalsky was on an off-duty assignment in the general vicinity and also responded to the scene. When the officers arrived the manager of the motel advised them that a male and female had requested an ambulance, but not the police. They then walked away from the motel lobby out of the manager's sight.      The officers began combing the vicinity for the couple. Immediately, Officer Evan located the pair hiding in a stairwell of one of the Swan Motel buildings. Officer Evan then escorted both individuals back toward the office area to where the ambulance had been summoned. He tended to the female with EMS personnel while Officer Tomko and Lt. Tempalsky began to interview the male. The male was very evasive during the interview and the officers began to suspect that more than an accident occurred, and also that he was attempting to conceal his identity and the facts surrounding the incident. As the officers pressed further in an attempt to uncover the truth, the male subject continued to evade their questions and refused to elaborate on the incident.      Believing that an assault had occurred in the pair's room and that the possibility of another person needing assistance in their room, the officers asked if the male suspect would escort them back to his room. He agreed and began walking back towards where his room was located. As he neared the building, he immediately fled, running between the buildings of the motel and through the backyards of surrounding residences.      Officers Tomko and Evan pursued the subject who had fled into the backyard of an East Edgar Road residence. Lt. Tempalsky intercepted the subject attempting to climb a fence, and after a brief struggle he was subdued and handcuffed.      The officers proceeded to the room and discovered blood droplets on the sill of the room's entrance door. The room was opened for the officers by motel staff and immediately the officers observed that the room was in total disarray, apparently from an altercation having taken place inside. A large quantity of blood was observed on the bed and there were broken items and overturned furniture. A large quantity of drug paraphernalia, the kind typically used for packaging and distribution, was observed by the officers in plain view.      The officers immediately secured the room and contacted the department's narcotics unit. Based upon the officer's observations, a search warrant was subsequently secured for the room and the suspect's 2002 Ford Taurus that was parked adjacent to the room.      Approximately two kilograms of high quality heroin, a large quantity of packaging material, and a loaded 9MM defaced handgun were seized from the subjects motel room. Seized from a "trap" that was discovered in the subject's vehicle was approximately $3,000 and paperwork relating to the subject's assets.      Addtional search warrants were applied for, granted and then executed at a storage facility in Linden and a residence that the subject owned in Carteret from where additional quantities of packaging material, cutting agents and "high end" electronics were seized. In addition to seizing the subjects car, several bank accounts were frozen.      Prosecution of the case will be conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office.      The NJNEOA commends Officers Kris Tomko, Mark Evans, Detective Alvaro Goncalves and Detective Lieutenant Donald Tempalsky on an outstanding job. The inter-division cooperation exhibited by these fine officers is quite exemplary. If it were not for the combined effort of all involved, this investigation would not have resulted in this highly successful outcome. It is this sort of teamwork that is worthy of the utmost praise and reward.