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Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says
Out-Of-Town Driver Busted With 'Shrooms, Acid, Pot, More, Elmwood Park PD Says Elmwood Park police busted a repeat offender with mushrooms, LSD, pot and prescription pills, authorities said. Brandon J. Soto, 25, of East Orange blew a stop sign off the ramp from eastbound Route 46 onto Stefanic Avenue and was pulled over by members of the Street Crimes Unit, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The officers had followed Soto’s 2008 Acura TL from the nearby Red Carpet Inn, the chief said. Their suspicions aroused, they called for a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit, which lead them to a search that turned up a trove of drugs. These included psilocybin mushro…
Three Jersey City Men Arrested For Illegal Drug Sales At Vape Shops: Police Three Jersey City Men Arrested For Illegal Drug Sales At Vape Shops: Police
Three Jersey City Men Arrested For Illegal Drug Sales At Vape Shops: Police Three Jersey City men were accused of illegally selling marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms at two Monmouth County vape shops, authorities said. Abdullah Hassan, Waqas Ahmed, and Muhammad Khan were arrested on Wednesday, May 1, the Hazlet Police Department said in a news release on Friday, May 3. They were taken into custody at Vape God, a store in the Wellington Square shopping plaza on Poole Avenue. Police received a tip about Vape God selling marijuana products to customers including children, despite not being licensed to sell marijuana. Police executed a search warrant at the…
Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid
Former West Milford HS Athlete, Honor Student Charged After Police Drug Raid A former high school honor student and basketball player was busted on drug charges after West Milford police raided his home, authorities said. Shaan Celik, 20, had psilocybin mushrooms, THC vape cartridges, pot edibles and marijuana for sale at the Otterhole Road residence, Police Chief James DeVore said. Police also found packaging materials and an undisclosed amount of suspected proceeds from drug sales, DeVore said. Detectives worked the case for several months before the 9 a.m. May 15 raid, the chief said. Another man who was in another bedroom was released without charges, he said.…
Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal
Clifton Stolen Car Pursuit Through Paterson Ends In Arrests Of Sex Offender, Hackensack Pal A registered sex offender from Belleville and his Hackensack passenger were captured by Clifton police after they bailed out of a stolen SUV following a pursuit through Paterson, authorities said. Officer Matt West spotted the 2015 Honda Pilot on southbound Route 21 near Ackerman Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The vehicle had been reported stolen out of Clifton last Thursday, he said. Refusing to stop, Frank Carfagno, a 38-year-old registered Megan's Law offender from Belleville, led officers on a pursuit through the streets of Paterson, the l…
Pot Grow Operation Busted Near Jersey City School: Police Pot Grow Operation Busted Near Jersey City School: Police
Pot Grow Operation Busted Near Jersey City School: Police A 26-year-old Jersey City resident was arrested on Tuesday, March 28, and charged with multiple counts of growing marijuana in a school zone. Police arrested Eyuemeyar Mazon after they found 18 planter pots containing suspected marijuana, fertilizer, equipment for plant growing, and various amounts of psilocybin mushroom, according to city police. Mazon's home at 630 Bergen Ave., is next to P.S. 17: Joseph H. Brensinger School, police said.
Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police
Bayonne Gangster Busted With Basement Drug Lab, Rifles After Assaulting Officer, Woman: Police Police uncovered a drug lab and several handguns including an AK-47 in the home of a Bayonne gang member who followed a woman and pulled out a gun before spitting on police during his arrest, authorities announced. Trouble began for Eliezer Mieses around the morning of Thursday, Sept. 1, when he started arguing with and following a woman on West 26th Street, then pulled out a handgun that he waved around in the air, Bayonne Police Capt. Eric Amato said. The woman went into a house unharmed and Mieses fled toward Avenue A. As officers approached him, Mieses immediately became irate and uncoo…
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In NJ Police Stop, Authorities Say Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In NJ Police Stop, Authorities Say
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In NJ Police Stop, Authorities Say A Lyndhurst police officer busted a Passaic driver with psilocybin mushrooms, authorities said. Officer Michael D’Alesandro was on patrol in the area of Riverside Avenue and Copeland Avenue when he spotted an older model Honda Accord without any functioning brake lights, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Sgt. Philip Reina joined his colleague at the stop and spotted a bag with several caps and stems of the well-known psychedelic on the front floorboard, Auteri said. Grown wild or cultivated, so-called magic mushrooms the naturally-occurring psychoactive and hallucinogenic compo…
Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor
Jersey Shore Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty In Cocaine, LSD, Pot Bust: Prosecutor A Lacey Township man on Friday, Feb. 11 pleaded guilty to his role in a Jersey Shore drug bust, authorities said. Detectives discovered several ounces of cocaine, LSD, marijuana, and more during a warranted search of the car and home of Andrew Bradley, 22, in October 2021, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Bradley was storing and selling cocaine and marijuana out of a home in the Forked River section of the township between 2017 and 2020, the prosecutor said. Lacey Township police launched an investigation on Oct. 1, 2021, when they stopped Bradley in his car.&nb…
Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm
Authorities: Suspected Dealer Transformed Hudson County Apartment Into Massive Mushroom Farm A suspected Union City drug dealer dubbed "Pharaoh" was arrested after authorities found more than 25 pounds of edible marijuana candy, hundreds of prescription pills and thousands of dollars worth of drug proceeds in his apartment that he had converted into a den to grow psychedelic mushrooms, Secaucus police said Wednesday. Acting on a tip that 20-year-old Darryl Rodriguez was dealing drugs to Secaucus residents, police searched his 39th Street Union City apartment following a nearly two-month investigation, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The search turned up more than 25 pound…
NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say
NY State Driver Busted In Bergen With THC Dessert Assortment, Infused Soap, Police Say A New York State driver had an illegal assortment of THC-infused desserts – cookies, muffins, brownies, chocolate bars and lollipops, among them – when Lyndhurst police said they arrested him. Hovadis Maracallo, 39, Middletown, was behind the wheel of a Honda SUV parked on a dimly lit stretch of Lafayette Avenue when Officer Mark Rivera rolled up around 10 p.m. Saturday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Seeing the officer, Maracallo drove off, then turned without signaling, Auteri said. Rivera pulled Maracallo over and immediately smelled marijuana, the lieutenant said. According to Au…