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Passaic Sheriff: Detectives Seize $10,000 Worth Of Heroin, Crack, Xanax, $12,000+ Drug Cash
Passaic County sheriff’s detectives chased down an accused drug dealer and seized more than $10,000 worth of heroin, crack and Xanax -- along with more than $12,000 in suspected drug proceeds -- from his Paterson apartment, authorities said Tuesday.
Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Narcotics Bureau investigators who’d been investigating 35-year-old Marquise Scott for two months watched early Monday night as he left his home, walked to 14th Avenue and East 21st Street, then handed a sedan driver drugs in exchange for cash.
Scott spotted the detectives approaching and “took off on foot towards…