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Both seemed to be under the influence of some type of drug when city officers found them in the 400 block of Clifton Avenue around 11:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.
The 2014 Honda Civic they were in had just been stolen from Richfield Village when it struck another vehicle in an intersection and then a parked car, Bracken said.
Hansel Moreno-Tavarez, 28, of Clifton, and his female passenger were treated for minor injuries at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, the lieutenant said. The other driver was OK, he said.
Moreno-Tavarez later hit an officer in the head while being processed at headquarters on a possession of stolen property charge, Bracken said.
He was placed in a cell with an additional charge of aggravated assault on a police officer, the lieutenant said.
The woman wasn't charged, he said.
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