Bergen sheriff’s Quality of Life unit seizes imitation handgun, arrests brothers

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Its tail lights were out and its hazards were flashing, so officers with a special county sheriff’s detail pulled a car over in Hackensack — and found two brothers carrying pot and an imitation handgun, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino said this afternoon.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF*

Jerry DeMarco

01/23/2015 10:30 p.m.

Leroy Williams, 19, tried tipping away from the car driven by his 22-year-old brother, Carl, after the stop last Saturday night at Lafayette and Hudson streets by detectives with a Quality of Life unit, Saudino said.

The members of the unit — which includes Hackensack police officers — smelled a strong odor of raw marijuana in the car, he added.

Both brothers “admitted to possessing marijuana on them as well as in the vehicle,” Saudino said.

A search also turned up what at first appeared a .380-caliber handgun but turned out to be an imitation identical in size and shape to a Knall revolver, the sheriff said.

Both men were charged with drug and weapons possession counts.

Leroy Williams was being held on $10,000 bail and his brother on $7,500 in the Bergen County Jail. Carl Williams also received several motor vehicle summonses, Saudino said.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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