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Julio Delacruz was still sitting in his Dodge RAM 1500, “dazed and incoherent,” when officers responded to a 9:45 p.m. crash at 10th Street and Division Avenue last Nov. 14, authorities said at the time.
The truck had just plowed into a Honda Accord, headed up onto a sidewalk and crashed into a retaining wall, they said.
Authorities said Delacruz, who wasn’t injured, was fleeing a crash moments earlier with a 2007 Ford pickup occupied by five people at Hackensack Avenue and Broad Street. The Ford got shoved into parked car that was pushed into another behind it, they said.
All five of those occupants and one from the Accord were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with assorted injuries.
Delacruz ran stop signs in both crashes, Nielsen said, adding that he was “under the influence of a substance other than alcohol,” Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said at the time.
A drug recognition officer who examined him at headquarters determined that Delacruz was under the influence of a controlled substance and “unable to safely operate a motor vehicle,” the chief said.
Delacruz posted $63,500 bail and ws released from the Bergen County Jail two days after his arrest.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD
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