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Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says
Elmwood Park police busted a repeat offender with mushrooms, LSD, pot and prescription pills, authorities said.
Brandon J. Soto, 25, of East Orange blew a stop sign off the ramp from eastbound Route 46 onto Stefanic Avenue and was pulled over by members of the Street Crimes Unit, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
The officers had followed Soto’s 2008 Acura TL from the nearby Red Carpet Inn, the chief said.
Their suspicions aroused, they called for a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit, which lead them to a search that turned up a trove of drugs.
These included psilocybin mushro…
Gun, Ammo, Various Plates From Various States Found In Teaneck Motorist's Car: Police
A Teaneck motorist who told local police he had a temporary plate on his SUV because he was trying to sell the vehicle was arrested after he opened the rear hatch to look for a replacement, authorities said.
As soon as he did, officers who stopped Tyrone Martinez Blair, 51, on Teaneck Road spotted six temporary Georgia license plates, two different New Jersey plates and two different California plates in the back of the 2018 Lincoln Navigator, Teaneck Police Chief Andrew R. McGurr said.
But that wasn’t all, the chief said.
Given consent to search the entire vehicle, Officer Kyle Rosen foun…
Mahwah Officer Nabs Trio With Loaded Gun, Cocaine, More On Route 17: Police
Three Cuban nationals from out of the area were busted by a Mahwah police officer who stopped their tractor on Route 17 and found a loaded gun, cocaine and more, authorities said.
Officer Nicole DiPasquale stopped the Peterbilt truck for multiple motor vehicle violations on the southbound highway shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday, April 27, Lt. Michael Blondin said.
The occupants gave conflicting accounts of where they were coming from and headed to, leading to a search request that was granted by the driver, Karel Reza-Perez, a 39-year-old Louisville, KY, resident, the lieutenant said.
The se…
Drug Den On Wheels: Closter Officer Stops Driver With Wide Assortment, Police Say
A Closter police officer found what amounted to a drug den on wheels when he stopped a driver just before midnight.
It was two minutes before the calendar turned to Thursday, April 18, when Officer Anthony Lofaro stopped 22-year-old Mexican national Rafael Guerrero Gonzalez at the BP station on Closter Dock Road just off Piermont Road, Capt. Vincent Aiello said.
Lofaro immediately smelled pot, the captain said.
Inside the car, Aiello said, the officer found:
100 packaged liquid THC pods;
a bag of raw mushrooms;
a bag of crack;
joints;
pot candy, mushroom candy, liquid mushrooms, marijuan…
Ridgefield Park Officer Finds Gun, Hollow-Nose Ammo, $24,500 After Stopping Out-Of-State Driver
A Ridgefield Park police officer turned up a handgun loaded with hollow-nose bullets, a small amount of crystal meth and $24,500 in suspicious cash during a traffic stop, authorities said.
Officer Amanda Thomas stopped the Toyota Tundra for a number of violations at Main and Hobart streets shortly after 10 a.m. Monday, April 8, Police Chief Joseph Rella said.
The driver, 40-year-old Mexican national Raul Villanueva Muratalla of Nashville, was taken into custody a short time later, he said.
Muratalla was charged with unlawful weapons possession, possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpo…
'I Love You, Goodbye': Romanian Traveler Caught, GF Gone After Pickpocketing Bust: Montvale PD
"I love you," a woman told her fellow Romanian traveler after Montvale police arrested him for pickpocketing an elderly victim. "Goodbye."
And she was gone.
A wallet that Robert P. Nuta, a 31-year-old fugitive wanted out of Florida, swiped from the late-70-something victim outside Wegman's held $100 in cash, credit cards and a Social Security card, Montvale Police Chief Douglas McDowell said.
The victim's cellphone also was taken, the chief said.
Nuta and the woman he was with "piggybacked" at the nearby Apple store, with her fraudulently purchasing a $3,700 laptop while he waited outside…
Toddler Hospitalized With Serious Burns, PalPark Private Day Care Worker Jailed
A toddler was hospitalized with serious burns that authorities said were sustained at a home that operates as a daycare center in Palisades Park.
Ann Zheng, 24, was jailed on child endangerment charges after the toddler was burned at Dearest Angel Child Care, which operates out of a private home on Glen Avenue off East Edsall Boulevard, on Thursday, March 28.
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Special Victims Unit was contacted by Palisades Park police.
They learned, he said, that Zheng, “while having an assumed responsibility for the child, neglected the child, resulting in th…