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Tampering Evidence

Police: Morris County Man, 47, Planted Drugs, Loaded Handgun In Victim's Car Police: Morris County Man, 47, Planted Drugs, Loaded Handgun In Victim's Car
Police: Morris County Man, 47, Planted Drugs, Loaded Handgun In Victim's Car Police in Morris County were skeptical when a man they had just arrested insisted the cocaine, heroin and loaded gun found in his vehicle didn't belong to him — but it turns out, he was telling the truth. Henry Patterson, 47, made an anonymous call to authorities Oct. 4 stating that he saw a man with a handgun and narcotics in the parking lot of ShopRite on East Hanover Avenue, Chief of Hanover Police Mark D. Roddy said. Officers responded and observed a quantity of cocaine outside the vehicle, authorities said. After receiving the driver’s written consent, police performed a search of the…