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Speaking through a translator, 45-year-old Luis Sosa-Rodriguez agreed to waive extradition during a court hearing in Hackensack yesterday.
Once his case is resolved in New York, he’ll be returned to the Bergen County Jail to face charges here in connection with the Sept. 30, 2013 arrests of him and two other men outside Fort Lee High School, Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian said.
Tinted windows and erratic driving prompted the stop, during which officers found an electronically-operated compartment under the back seat containing $9,000 in cash.
A drug K-9 led them to another compartment in the dashboard that held the cocaine, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Keith Travers said.
Sosa-Rodriguez was taken into custody along with his cousin, Diego Rodriguez from Massachusettes and Francis LanFranco of Brooklyn.
They remain under indictment in Bergen County on charges of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it near a school, along with transporting an amount of cash that “a reasonable person would believe to be derived from criminal activity.”
STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia
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