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Illegal Ammunition

Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun
Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun A passenger in a taxi cab stopped for a traffic violation wasn't only wanted out of Pennsylvania -- he was also carrying a loaded gun, police in Haledon said. Officer Jeffrey Welsh and Kris Duci stopped the Paterson cab after the driver failed to signal a turn at the intersection of West Broadway and Chamberlain Avenue shortly after noon Wednesday, Sept. 21, Capt. George Guzman Jr. said. The officers immediately noticed that the rear-seat passenger -- identified in records as Miguel Ortiz, a 23-year-old Dominican national from Paterson -- wasn't wearing a seatbelt, the captain said. The of…
SEEN HIM? Suspect Flees Elmwood Park PD Stop, Leaves Ammo, Crack, Companion Behind SEEN HIM? Suspect Flees Elmwood Park PD Stop, Leaves Ammo, Crack, Companion Behind
Seen HIM? Suspect Flees Elmwood Park PD Stop, Leaves Ammo, Crack, Companion Behind A manhunt was underway for a Paterson resident who ran from police in Elmwood Park, leaving 30 rounds of ammunition, a bag of crack and a companion behind during a traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Josh Rodriguez saw the driver and passenger switch seats as he approached the Honda Odyssey with expired Pennsylvania license plates in the parking lot of the Goodwill NYNJ Store & Donation Center on Broadway around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Anderson Rojas of Paterson provided his credentials, but he wasn’t the one who’d been driving, Foligno sa…
Prosecutor: CT Pair Nabbed In NJ Turnpike Stop With Ghost Gun, Hollow-Nose Bullets Prosecutor: CT Pair Nabbed In NJ Turnpike Stop With Ghost Gun, Hollow-Nose Bullets
Prosecutor: CT Pair Nabbed In NJ Turnpike Stop With Ghost Gun, Hollow-Nose Bullets Two unemployed Connecticut men stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in Bergen County were packing two handguns and hollow-nosed bullets in their vehicle, authorities said. One of the weapons was a homemade ghost gun, they said. The passenger, Jeffrey Torres, 23, of Bristol, CT, bailed out and tried to run after Narcotic Task Force detectives stopped them on northbound Route 95 in Ridgefield, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Superior Court judge in Hackensack later ordered that both Torres and the driver, Angel Ramos-Ortiz, 24, of Hartford, CT, remain held in the Bergen County Ja…