Major Bergen ID theft probe defendant busted on heroin dealing charges

ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Paterson woman facing charges in connection with a major investigation of an identity theft ring was caught by Fair Lawn police with several ounces of heroin — and quickly released again after posting $50,000 bail.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR*

Jerry DeMarco

10/17/2014 10:37 p.m.

A judge in Hackensack ordered 36-year-old Angel Leary held on $100,000 bail in June 2013 after she was among nearly a dozen people charged by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office with using stolen information to open up lines of credit at various department stores (SEE: Crew bought $150,000 in goods with 70 stolen IDs).

Nineteen days later, Leary was released without bail, records show.

Just after 5 p.m. Monday, Fair Lawn Detectives Paul Donohue and Mark Roskowsky and Detective Sgt. Tim O’Shaughnessy approached a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the Broadway CVS, Sgt. Brian Metzler said today.

They arrested Leary after finding the decks, wrapped in two bricks, he said.

She was charged with various drug possession and distribution counts.

Leary was ordered held on $50,000 bail but posted it and never made it to the county lockup, records show.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

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