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Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun
Haledon PD: Taxi Traffic Stop Leads To Capture Of Wanted Man With Loaded Gun A passenger in a taxi cab stopped for a traffic violation wasn't only wanted out of Pennsylvania -- he was also carrying a loaded gun, police in Haledon said. Officer Jeffrey Welsh and Kris Duci stopped the Paterson cab after the driver failed to signal a turn at the intersection of West Broadway and Chamberlain Avenue shortly after noon Wednesday, Sept. 21, Capt. George Guzman Jr. said. The officers immediately noticed that the rear-seat passenger -- identified in records as Miguel Ortiz, a 23-year-old Dominican national from Paterson -- wasn't wearing a seatbelt, the captain said. The of…

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