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Alfredo Lopez (MUGSHOT: Paramus PD)
Paramus Police Officers Joseph Cullen and Ryan Hayo were on patrol on Route 4 East when they stopped a 2005 Nissan Maxima for several motor vehicle violations in the area of Spring Valley Road, Detective Capt. Kenneth R. Ehrenberg said.
The driver, Alfredo “Bugsy” Lopez, couldn’t produce a registration card for the car, which he said wasn’t his.
Then Lopez “suddenly put the car into drive and fled the scene,” Ehrenberg said.
Other officers joined in a subsequent chase just before noon Monday.
As they passed Forest Avenue, the captain said, Lopez tossed a bundle out the window. He finally in the area of Elm Street and Grand Avenue in Hackensack and was taken into custody, Ehrenberg said.
The bundle held roughly 2,500 bags of heroin, with a street value of more than $25,000, he said.
Lopez, 32, is being held on $750,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with eluding police, a variety of drug offenses and several motor vehicle violations.
He’s most likely headed back to prison, where he’d been from May 2005 until January 2009 following convictions for selling drugs. Overlapping stretches stemmed from an arrest in Union County in April 2003 and another in Bergen County in February 2005, criminal records show.
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