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Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized $40,000 worth of heroin and arrested two people – one of them from Orange County -- after stopping a minivan on the parkway, authorities said. PIP Police Officer Matthew Levine stopped the Honda Odyssey for a traffic violation in Alpine on Dec. 15, Lt. Jock H. Watkins, Jr. said Friday. A probable-cause search turned up 4,000 wax folds of heroin, Watkins said. Arrested, he said, were two passengers: Holly Anne Mead, 32, of Newburgh, who was charged with marijuana possession, and Gabriel Zurita-Bayron, 36, of Philadelphia, who was charged with havi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught
U-Haul Van Pursuit From Greene County Ends In NJ With Vehicles Struck, Philly Driver Caught UPDATE: A multi-agency pursuit Thursday night that began in upstate New York ended 100 miles away in Paramus Thursday night after a Brooklyn man rammed two police cars with a U-Haul van that he was driving on two front rims and a rear flat tire, police said. Mark Simpson, 31, got out of the van shortly after crashing around 10:30 p.m., then hopped the highway divider and ran behind the Suburban Diner before police nabbed him moments later, authorities said. It began more than an hour and a half earlier with a theft from a Walmart in Catskill, NY, they said. New York State Police said troop…

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by Jerry DeMarco