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An officer stopped the 1997 Honda at Pangborn and Clinton places just after 11:20 a.m. because the car was “all over the road,” Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The driver, 25-year-old Vontrell Hines of Hackensack, then pushed the officer 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, meanwhile, was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, child endangerment (two counts), being under the influence of drugs, failing to surrender drugs to police and various drug possession charges.
Police also gave him several summonses, including for being under the influence while driving.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
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