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As the investigators watched, a three-man team of dealers took orders and retrieved drugs for buyers from an apartment over a Rosa Parks Boulevard storefront around the corner from Barbour Park, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Tuesday.
After a series of arrests, they obtained warrants and hit the apartment, he said.
There, the director said, they seized:
- a .38-caliber Taurus-Brasil handgun with a defaced serial number;
- a .40-caliber Ruger handgun;
- six hollow-point rounds;
- 1,522 heroin folds;
- 93 vials of crack;
- 7.6 ounces of marijuana;
- $2,300 in drug proceeds.
They charged three accused dealers: Syrjah Alston, 25, and ex-cons Dathan Alston, 29 and Laheem Lusk, 54.
All were charged with a variety of drug and weapons offenses. Dathan Alston and Lusk also were charged with being convicted felons in possession of firearms, Speziale noted.
Also charged were eight buyers – six from Paterson and one each from River Edge and Palisades Park, he said.
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