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Responding to complaints, city narcotics detectives nabbed Hopper Street resident Valerie A. Thomas, 57, while seizing 3,872 heroin folds, 17 baggies of crack cocaine, and $4,647 in drug money, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said.
Hopper lives in the first-floor apartment of the home where Speziale said she plied her illegal trade. Detectives watched awhile before obtaining search and arrest warrants, he said.
Thomas was charged with a host of drug-related counts and sent to the Passaic County Jail to await a detention hearing.
A 52-year-old city man also was arrested, and later released, after buying two folds from her, Speziale said.
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