Crump, 51, of the 1300 block of South 10th Street in Philadelphia, was captured Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of the Mount Laurel Hilton as he and his brother waited for a planned exchange of drugs, according to authorities.
Hours later, authorities raided Crump's Adult House bookstore on Route 130 in Woodlynne, seeking 29 people wanted on warrants for promoting or soliciting prostitution. Nearly $750,000 in cash and securities was confiscated from the bookstore, Crump's home and Crump's bank accounts and safe deposit boxes.
Crump faces, at a minimum, state charges of promoting prostitution, federal charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute one kilo of heroin and a murder charge in Canada.
At a hearing yesterday in Camden, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome B. Simandle ordered Frank Crump and his brother, George Michael Crump, 46, of Atco, held without bail pending arraignments next week. Mike Crump, as the second brother is known, also faces federal charges in connection with the heroin conspiracy and state charges of promoting prostitution.
Federal Prosecutor Rocco C. Cipparone Jr. said Frank Crump's criminal record stretches back to 1971 and features convictions for heroin sales, extortion, interstate transportation of stolen property, witness-tampering, receipt of a stolen car and use of a false passport.
He has lived in the United States, Canada, Spain, Pakistan and the Netherlands under a string of assumed names such as Frank Kaufman, Thomas Morran Underkoffler, James Alexander Peach, James Wright and Frank Dodd.
In Crump's possession at the time of his arrest were fake identification cards from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Social Security Administration, plus one card and badge with the word POLICE in bold red letters, according to federal authorities.
