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Members of the department’s Bureau of Narcotics and Fugitive Warrant Squad first spotted Nahdir Gonzalez, 29, “continuously entering and exiting a white colored Nissan Altima” near the corner of Essex and Madison streets in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday.
Gonzalez passed what appeared to be drugs to the two others – identified as Rajaheem Alston, 26, and Tyheem Reese, 30, the sheriff said.
He then got behind the wheel of the Altima and headed down Madison Street toward 20th Avenue before the detectives stopped him. He had bundles of heroin in the back pocket of his jeans and a brick of the drug in the car, Berdnik said.
The folds were all stamped BASES LOADED in red ink, he said.
Detectives at the same time grabbed Reese, who Berdnik said was carrying four bundles of the BASES LOADED heroin, and Alston, who he said had 15 bags of crack, eight vials of crack and 11 Ecstasy pills.
All three were charged with various drug-related counts and sent to the Passaic County Jail to await first appearances in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.
The county prosecutor’s office assisted, Berdnik said.
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