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Fentanyl Dealer Charged In Rochelle Park Supply Chain Manager's OD Death: Prosecutor Fentanyl Dealer Charged In Rochelle Park Supply Chain Manager's OD Death: Prosecutor
Fentanyl Dealer Charged In Rochelle Park Supply Chain Manager's OD Death: Prosecutor A 29-year-old Paterson man has been charged with selling a 37-year-old Rochelle Park man the fentanyl that killed him, authorities announced. Police called to a home on Rochelle Avenue on Wednesday, July 10 just after 9:45 a.m., and found James A. Mara unresponsive and unconscious at the scene, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Mara was pronounced dead by paramedics. Indicators of a possible drug overdose were noted, and detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force were notified. Detectives found that Mara ingested fentanyl before his death,…

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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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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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by Jerry DeMarco