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Five Pounds Of Pot In A Suitcase Spells Trouble For Bergen, Rockland Buds Five Pounds Of Pot In A Suitcase Spells Trouble For Bergen, Rockland Buds
Five Pounds Of Pot In A Suitcase Spells Trouble For Bergen, Rockland Buds Five pounds of pot for sale landed two men – one from Bergen, the other from Rockland – in trouble with the law. Nelson Cedeno, 46, and Keith Chandler, 32, of Garnerville were stopped near Cedeno’s Woodcliff Lake home by detectives from the the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force, authorities said. “A search of the vehicle uncovered five pounds of marijuana located in a suitcase in the rear,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday, Dec. 8. “Both men were arrested at the scene without incident.” A search of Cedeno’s home later that day turned up “an elect…

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Bunch Of Vehicle Violations Turns Up 2 Pounds Of Pot In Ridgefield Stop Bunch Of Vehicle Violations Turns Up 2 Pounds Of Pot In Ridgefield Stop
Bunch Of Vehicle Violations Turns Up 2 Pounds Of Pot In Ridgefield Stop Perhaps it was the cracked windshield. Maybe the broken tail light. Or the missing license plate. Whatever first the eye of a Ridgefield police officer led to the seizure of more than two pounds of pot and the arrest of a driver from Manhattan. Both the registration for the Chevy Cruze and the driver’s license came back suspended following a predawn stop on Bergen Boulevard, Ridgefield Police Chief Thomas Gallagher said. The officer called for a Bergen County Sheriff’s K9, who detected the presence of drugs, the chief said. Police also found packaging materials and a scale, he said. You c…

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Kush-y Setup: 50 Plants, Four Pounds Of Pot Seized, Englewood Man Busted In Growhouse Raid Kush-y Setup: 50 Plants, Four Pounds Of Pot Seized, Englewood Man Busted In Growhouse Raid
Kush-y Setup: 50 Plants, Four Pounds Of Pot Seized, Englewood Man Busted In Growhouse Raid A disturbance call brought police to an Englewood home where they said they found an illegal pot grow house, complete with an irrigation system and special lighting. Authorities seized four pounds of packaged pot and more than 50 plants from the Knickerbocker Road residence off West Hudson Avenue, Lt. Fred Pulice said. The accused grower, Andrew Wepner, 40, had left before they got there and was headed out of state, he said. Wepner returned a few days later and surrendered at police headquarters. He was charged with first-degree manufacturing and maintaining a drug production facility and…

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Kush-y Job: 40 Pounds Of Pot In The Car Gets Upstate NY Driver Busted In Bergen Kush-y Job: 40 Pounds Of Pot In The Car Gets Upstate NY Driver Busted In Bergen
Kush-y Job: 40 Pounds Of Pot In The Car Gets Upstate NY Driver Busted In Bergen Pot may be legal in New Jersey, but not 40 pounds of it. That’s what authorities said led to the arrest of an upstate New York mechanic by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force on Wednesday, April 13 -- exactly a week away from 4/20. Detectives stopped Matthew Sullivan, 32, of North Syracuse in Ridgefield Park after learning that he was “transporting bulk amounts” of weed, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A warranted search of his vehicle turned up the 40 pounds of pot, Musella said. Sullivan was charged with carrying drugs for sale, the prosecut…

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