Maywood Police: Hasbrouck Heights Driver Had Pot, Drug Cash

MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A Maywood police officer making a routine stop found a Hasbrouck Heights man carrying two sandwich bags of pot, a blunt and more than $2,500 in suspected drug proceeds, authorities told Daily Voice on Friday.

Gabriel Varga
Photo Credit: *MUGSHOT: Courtesy MAYWOOD PD*

Jerry DeMarco

05/20/2016 1:32 p.m.

Officer Shawn Patton stopped the 2006 Chevy Malibu on Essex Street shorty before midnight Wednesday and smelled raw marijuana, Detective Jason Liaban said.

A search turned up the bags -- labeled "dark pine" and "dead head" -- along with the hollowed-out, pot-filled cigar and the cash, he said.

The driver, 36-year-old Gabriel Vargas, was later released on a court summons charging him with 36, pot possession with the intent to distribute the drug and financial faciliation from criminal activity, among other counts.

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