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Hector J. Torres-Duran, 27, was selling cocaine in Bergen and Passaic counties when Narcotics Task Force detectives targeted him in early May, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday.
He’d sold some in Garfield before the investigators stopped a cab he was driving on Jewel Street near Outwater Lane on Wednesday, Musella said.
They arrested him and a companion, Stalin M. Tavarez, who turns 30 on Saturday, after finding nearly a half-ounce of the drug in the vehicle, the prosecutor said.
Records show Torres-Duran was arrested in Clifton in October 2019 after police said he’d been going car-to-car on a bicycle, burglarizing them.
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Both Torres-Duran and Tavarez were sent on drug charges to the Bergen County Jail before a Central Judicial Processing Court judge in Hackensack released them hours later.
Musella thanked Garfield police for their assistance.
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