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Maliek J. Cooper, 30, and 42-year-old James Cross were being held on $100,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail, charged with drug distribution.
James Cross, Maliek Cooper (Courtesy NJDOC)
Members of the Bergen County Narcotic Task Force, along with county sheriff’s officers and Paramus and Elmwood Park police, made the busts during a controlled traffic stop in which six bricks were seized, Molinelli said. Sold in bags, the drugs would fetch about $3,000, he said.
Cross was out on bail after being arrested by Paterson police on Jan. 14 and charged with having 356 folds of heroin and 35 baggies of crack for sale, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said.
He’d been released last July after serving nearly five years for distributing drugs and weapons possession stemming from a pair of incidents in 2009, state Department of Corrections records show.
Cooper, meanwhile, was released from state prison last May after serving 14 months of a three-year sentence in connection with a November 2011 police chase.
Both men in recent months “have been dealing heroin on a regular basis” the prosecutor said, adding that additional charges will be repesented to a grand jury in Hackensack for an indictment.
MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
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