Ridgefield Park police charge four from Florida in ID theft operation

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield Park police grabbed three Florida men and a 17-year-old boy after a routine traffic stop turned up credit cards, driver’s licenses and checkbooks belonging to more than a dozen other people.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

11/21/2014 4:14 p.m.

The driver was talking on his cellphone when officers pulled over his Dodge Caravan on Route 46 yesterday afternoon, Capt. Daniel Hippe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.

They detected the odor of burnt marijuana, spoke with the occupants and took all of them into custody, he said.

Being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail were Adonis Shinholster, 21, of Fort Lauderdale; Jerrard Green, 24, of Hollywood; and Jermaine Armstrong, 19, of Coconut Creek.

The boy was sent to the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center on a juvenile complaint.

All are charged with wrongful impersonation and credit card theft.

Shinholster also was charged with carrying a small amount of marijuana.

Village police contacted law enforcement authorities in Florida to help them determine the source and scope of the thefts.

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