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CLIFFVIEW PILOT HAS IT FIRST: Posing as a doctor, a 25-year-old Hillsdale man on probation collected a huge stash of oxycontin, Xanax and other prescription medications, to go with heroin, mushrooms and other drugs that he routinely sold in the area, Police Chief Chip Stalter said today. It wasn’t the first time, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.
Daniel P. Kessel (Mugshot courtesy HILLSDALE PD)
Daniel P. Kessel was carrying 80 bundles of heroin and a large bag of marijuana when Officer Liz Zimmerman, knowing that he wanted on an outstanding warrant out of Emerson, grabbed him in a Hillsdale park on Thursday, with help from Officer Tom Smith, the chief said.
He also had more than 150 pills of Oxycodone and Xanax on him, they said.
Detective Sgt. Bob Francaviglia later learned that Kessel had a stolen prescription pad, Stalter said.
“Kessel, sometimes impersonating a doctor, w
BERGEN COUNTY JAIL booking shotould authorize prescription refills and scripts as a way to obtain more pills,” the chief said.
A search of his home also turned up drug paraphernalia and a single hollow-point bullet, which is illegal in New Jersey.
Kessel, who has lived with his parents and sister on Hopkins Street since he was 3 years old, was serving three years of probation after being sentenced in April 2010 in Superior Court in Hackensack for a similar offense, criminal records show.
The list of offenses police charged Kessel with this time is massive: two dozen criminal offenses, including 20 drug violations, forgery, wrongful impersonation and possession of the pad and bullet.
He is being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail pending a court appearance.
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