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South Hackensack Officer Kyle Skelley stopped a 2020 Honda CRV with a cracked windshield just off the highway around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Detective Sgt. James Donatello said.
The driver, William J. Ayala, 40, of Paterson, acted nervously, the sergeant said.
A background check turned up a mostly drug-related criminal history stretching back 20 years in Bergen and Passaic counties, as well as in Lakehurst and Miami Beach, FL, where Ayala had been charged with assaulting a police officer.
Skelley took Ayala into custody after finding him carrying cocaine, Donatello said.
Police obtained a search warrant, then found more coke in a room that Ayala had rented at the Knights Inn, he said.
Ayala remained held on drug-related charges Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail.
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