Bronx man nabbed in Bergen heroin buy

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives arrested a 28-year-old Bronx man after he showed up at an undercover drug buy in Englewood with 250 bricks of heroin worth $31,250, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.

Photo Credit: *Bergen County Prosecutor*

Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2012 10:36 p.m.

Joan Mendoza (MUGSHOT: Bergen County Prosecutor)

Joan Manuel Mendoza of Morris Avenue claimed to be “directly connected to a heroin mill operating from Washington Heights, just across the George Washington Bridge, after a tipster led investigators to him, Molinelli said.

An undercover officer first bought 20 bricks before agreeing to collect the larger shipment, the prosecutor said.

The Dominican native was arrested by Englewood police and detectives from Molinelli’s Narcotics Task Force when he arrived with the drugs to make the sale, he said.

Mendoza is being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

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