Elmwood Park police say Rutherford heroin user shot up in Pathmark bathroom

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police walked into a local Pathmark rest room moments after a 24-year-old Rutherford man shot himself up there with heroin last night, authorities said.

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Jerry DeMarco

02/06/2015 5:22 p.m.

Officers followed Stephen Pedhoretzky after Police Chief Michael Foligno said he’d been acting suspiciously in the parking lot around 8:50 p.m.

They found him carrying six bags of heroin and a syringe, the chief said this afternoon.

Pedhoretzky was processed and released on a court summons.

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