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Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000
PATERSON, N.J. – A month after he’d been arrested and released on drug charges, an ex-con was busted by Passaic County sheriff’s detectives with 4,750 bags of heroin and $15,500 in bundled proceeds, authorities said Wednesday.
Narcotics Bureau members staked out a pair of residences where 51-year-old Troy Kelley was known to live – one in Newark and the other on Sherman Avenue in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said.
They’d busted Kelley with 370 glassines of heroin for sale during a traffic stop a month ago, after which a judge released him under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law.
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