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Grow Your Own Way: 62 Pot Plants Seized, Resident Jailed In Hackensack Backyard Operation Grow Your Own Way: 62 Pot Plants Seized, Resident Jailed In Hackensack Backyard Operation
Grow Your Own Way: 62 Pot Plants Seized, Resident Jailed In Hackensack Backyard Operation A tipster led Hackensack police to a small single-family home in a modest neighborhood where they said they found 62 mature marijuana plants in an "elaborate" outdoor grow. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team led a court-warranted raid on the Hamilton Place home near the Maywood border and seized the plants, along with resident Anthony Dias, 64. Detectives "were acting on an anonymous tip received from the public regarding an illegal marijuana farm in operation within this quiet residential neighborhood" when they made the discovery, Hackensack Police Director Ray Guidetti said. They "condu…

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Prosecutor: Ex-Con Busted With 'Ghost Gun,' More In SWAT Raid On East Rutherford Drug Den Prosecutor: Ex-Con Busted With 'Ghost Gun,' More In SWAT Raid On East Rutherford Drug Den
Prosecutor: Ex-Con Busted With 'Ghost Gun,' More In SWAT Raid On East Rutherford Drug Den A SWAT team-supported raid on a quiet East Rutherford street turned up two firearms – one of them a “ghost gun,” the other loaded with hollow-nose bullets – along with illegal drugs and $27,000 in proceeds, authorities said Thursday. Ex-con Sardar Habib, 21, was arrested on a host of charges -- including operating a drug-production facility -- following an investigation by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives and borough police. Detectives who obtained the warrant found a 9mm “ghost gun,” a .40-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-nose bullets and a large-capacity magazine, along with heroin…

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by Jerry DeMarco