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A 1997 Honda driven by Vontrell Hines, 25, was stopped at Pangborn and Clinton places because it was “all over the road,” Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT immediately following the Aug. 29 incident.
Hines pushed Officer Sean Briggs and took off, leaving the toddler behind, Salcedo said.
A Bergen County Sheriff’s Office K9 unit tracked the 6-foot, 180-pound Hines behind a house on Maple Avenue, where he was taken into custody, the captain said.
Found in the car were several bags of marijuana in a duffel bag, he said.
The girl was reunited with her mother after city juvenile officers contacted state child welfare authorities, Salcedo said.
Hines posted $35,000 bail and was released from the Bergen County Jail a week later.
The indictment returned in Hackensack on Friday charges Hines with causing harm to his daughter, “making [her] an abused or neglected child.”
It ways he also “prevented or attempted to prevent [Briggs] from effecting an arrest by using or threatening physical force or violence.”
The indictment also charges him with fleeing.
Police gave Hines several summonses, including for being under the influence of marijuana while driving.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
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