Officer Kevin McWilliams pulled over the rented Mitsubishi Outlander for several traffic violations just before 12:30 a.m. and found the driver, Andres Colon, 22, carrying a small bag of pot, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said.
He arrested both Colon and his passenger, 23-year-old Tyquan Pounds, after finding nearly two dozen pounds of weed and the vaping cartridges, Kane said.
Both were being held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing on drug charges.
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ALSO SEE: CAPTURED! A drug dealer who fled after deliberately hitting a Bergen County prosecutor’s detective with his car was later captured in Philadelphia, authorities said.
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ALSO SEE: Two Buffalo men were carrying 23 pounds of marijuana and 100 THC vaping cartridges when they were stopped on northbound Route 17 before dawn Wednesday, Upper Saddle River police said.
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