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Detectives Mohammed Bashir and Levis Qirjako were talking with those standing around drinking while Detective Mustafa Dombayci approached a vehicle with two men inside and music blaring from inside shortly before midnight Saturday, city Police Director Jerry Speziale said.
In the back seat there was a gun, he said.
Dombayci alerted his colleagues, and the pair was removed from the vehicle, Speziale said.
The investigators retrieved the 9mm Taurus pistol, which was equipped with a high-capacity magazine, the director said. It was being sent to the New Jersey State Police lab to determine whether it might have been used in a crime.
Meanwhile, Yusef Page and Eliezer Ortiz were charged with weapons and ammo offenses and sent to the Passaic County Jail.
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