Bergen drug task arrest in East Rutherford yields heroin, crack

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County authorities busted a 43-year-old Newark carpenter who they said tried to sell $5,000 worth of heroin and crack to an undercover officer.

Jerry DeMarco

10/24/2014 5:39 p.m.

Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said that members of his Narcotic Task Force moved in when Jessie Smith showed up at an East Rutherford location Monday with 17 bricks of heroin – totaling 850 bags – and two dozen bags of crack.

Smith was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following his arraignment Tuesday on charges of with possessing heroin and crack with the intent to distribute both.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BCPO

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