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Washington Township Boy, 16, Thrown From Vehicle In Drug Ripoff, Teen Driver Charged
UPDATE: A 16-year-old Washington Township boy hung onto a fleeing vehicle and was thrown, suffering severe injuries, in a drug ripoff, authorities confirmed Friday.
The 17-year-old driver, also from the township, was quickly taken into custody following Monday night's incident, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.
He was issued delinquency complaints accusing him of robbery, aggravated assault, endangering an injured victim, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and assault by auto, the prosecutor said.
Calo didn't say whether his office will ask a …
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize 100+ Bags of Heroin, Other Drugs, $5,340
PATERSON, N.J. -- Passaic sheriff's detectives seized more than 100 bags of heroin, crack, cocaine and pot combined, along with $5,340 in drug proceeds, from an accused dealer, authorities said.
A tip led them to Elias Jerez-Inoa, 30, whom they watched leave his 17th Avenue apartment on Friday and get into a silver Honda CRV holding a small plastic bag, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said.
They followed Jerez-Inoa to a 6th Avenue address, where he went into a shed at the back of the driveway and then emerged with the bag, Berdnik said.
He pulled away in the Honda, which detectives stopped mome…
