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18 Pounds Of Pot Seized From Consignment Shop Drug Ring Trio In North Jersey: Police 18 Pounds Of Pot Seized From Consignment Shop Drug Ring Trio In North Jersey: Police
18 Pounds Of Pot Seized From Consignment Shop Drug Ring Trio In North Jersey: Police Three people have been arrested after authorities uncovered a massive drug ring being run out of a North Jersey thrift store. Search warrants executed at businesses, storage units, and vehicles in Bloomingdale, Newton, and Wayne turned up 18 pounds of marijuana and 1.13 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, Bloomingdale police said. Jesse A Baron, 43, of Bloomingdale, and Ryan T Smith, 36, of Butler, and Daniel F. Valerio, 39, of Bloomingdale, were slapped with various drug possession and distribution charges for running the scheme out of Thrifty Hippie Consignments on Main Street in Bloomin…
Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says
Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says Elmwood Park police busted a repeat offender with mushrooms, LSD, pot and prescription pills, authorities said. Brandon J. Soto, 25, of East Orange blew a stop sign off the ramp from eastbound Route 46 onto Stefanic Avenue and was pulled over by members of the Street Crimes Unit, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The officers had followed Soto’s 2008 Acura TL from the nearby Red Carpet Inn, the chief said. Their suspicions aroused, they called for a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit, which lead them to a search that turned up a trove of drugs. These included psilocybin mushro…
Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid
Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid A former high school honor student and basketball player was busted on drug charges after West Milford police raided his home, authorities said. Shaan Celik, 20, had psilocybin mushrooms, THC vape cartridges, pot edibles and marijuana for sale at the Otterhole Road residence, Police Chief James DeVore said. Police also found packaging materials and an undisclosed amount of suspected proceeds from drug sales, DeVore said. Detectives worked the case for several months before the 9 a.m. May 15 raid, the chief said. Another man who was in another bedroom was released without charges, he said.…
Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal
Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal A registered sex offender from Belleville and his Hackensack passenger were captured by Clifton police after they bailed out of a stolen SUV following a pursuit through Paterson, authorities said. Officer Matt West spotted the 2015 Honda Pilot on southbound Route 21 near Ackerman Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The vehicle had been reported stolen out of Clifton last Thursday, he said. Refusing to stop, Frank Carfagno, a 38-year-old registered Megan's Law offender from Belleville, led officers on a pursuit through the streets of Paterson, the l…
Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police
Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police Police uncovered a drug lab and several handguns including an AK-47 in the home of a Bayonne gang member who followed a woman and pulled out a gun before spitting on police during his arrest, authorities announced. Trouble began for Eliezer Mieses around the morning of Thursday, Sept. 1, when he started arguing with and following a woman on West 26th Street, then pulled out a handgun that he waved around in the air, Bayonne Police Capt. Eric Amato said. The woman went into a house unharmed and Mieses fled toward Avenue A. As officers approached him, Mieses immediately became irate and uncoo…
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say A Lyndhurst police officer busted a Passaic driver with psilocybin mushrooms, authorities said. Officer Michael D’Alesandro was on patrol in the area of Riverside Avenue and Copeland Avenue when he spotted an older model Honda Accord without any functioning brake lights, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Sgt. Philip Reina joined his colleague at the stop and spotted a bag with several caps and stems of the well-known psychedelic on the front floorboard, Auteri said. Grown wild or cultivated, so-called magic mushrooms the naturally-occurring psychoactive and hallucinogenic compo…
Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor
Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor A Lacey Township man on Friday, Feb. 11 pleaded guilty to his role in a Jersey Shore drug bust, authorities said. Detectives discovered several ounces of cocaine, LSD, marijuana, and more during a warranted search of the car and home of Andrew Bradley, 22, in October 2021, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Bradley was storing and selling cocaine and marijuana out of a home in the Forked River section of the township between 2017 and 2020, the prosecutor said. Lacey Township police launched an investigation on Oct. 1, 2021, when they stopped Bradley in his car.&nb…
Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm
Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm A suspected Union City drug dealer dubbed "Pharaoh" was arrested after authorities found more than 25 pounds of edible marijuana candy, hundreds of prescription pills and thousands of dollars worth of drug proceeds in his apartment that he had converted into a den to grow psychedelic mushrooms, Secaucus police said Wednesday. Acting on a tip that 20-year-old Darryl Rodriguez was dealing drugs to Secaucus residents, police searched his 39th Street Union City apartment following a nearly two-month investigation, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The search turned up more than 25 pound…
NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say
NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say A New York State driver had an illegal assortment of THC-infused desserts – cookies, muffins, brownies, chocolate bars and lollipops, among them – when Lyndhurst police said they arrested him. Hovadis Maracallo, 39, Middletown, was behind the wheel of a Honda SUV parked on a dimly lit stretch of Lafayette Avenue when Officer Mark Rivera rolled up around 10 p.m. Saturday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Seeing the officer, Maracallo drove off, then turned without signaling, Auteri said. Rivera pulled Maracallo over and immediately smelled marijuana, the lieutenant said. According to Au…
Paterson PD: Pounds Of Pot, Coke, Edibles, More Seized From Illegal Drug Dispensary Near School Paterson PD: Pounds Of Pot, Coke, Edibles, More Seized From Illegal Drug Dispensary Near School
Paterson PD: Pounds Of Pot, Coke, Edibles, More Seized From Illegal Drug Dispensary Near School Four doors down from a Paterson grade school, detectives raided an illegal basement dispensary where they said they found 5½ pounds of pot, more than three pounds of cannabis oil and THC syrup and 2½ pounds of THC edibles. They arrested five suspects, including a 68-year-old man who lives in the 20th Avenue apartment, less than a block from the K-8 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. Residents afraid of retaliation led police to the 20th Avenue location, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. “The information we received advised of illegal drug sales going on all hours of the day …
Disbarred Hackensack Lawyer Busted For Selling Drugs -- Again Disbarred Hackensack Lawyer Busted For Selling Drugs -- Again
Disbarred Hackensack Lawyer Busted For Selling Drugs -- Again HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A disbarred lawyer from Hackensack with a history of drug arrests was busted again by city police. Narcotics detectives arrested Barry Hoffberg, 51, on charges of maintaining/operating a drug facility out of his Prospect Avenue apartment, possessing and distributing cocaine and marijuana and having various tools of distribution -- among them, scales, grinders and sifters -- following a warranted raid Thursday, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. Hoffberg remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing. Last February, detectives said they arrested Hoff…