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$1,000,000 Worth Of Pot Found Stuffed Into SUV On Route 80, Upstate NY Man, Canadian Pal Busted
Detectives seized a whopping 360 pounds of pot that they said were in stuffed into more than a dozen duffle bags packed into an SUV stopped on Route 80.
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Narcotics Task Force stopped a Ford Expedition driven by a Canadian citizen on the interstate in Lodi on Tuesday.
“When the windows to the vehicle were rolled down, detectives observed the entire rear portion of the vehicle to be filled with thirteen oversized duffle bags” of marijuana worth an estimated $1 million, Musella said.
The driver, Shawn R. Porter, 34, of Etobicoke, Canada…
Bias Incident: Bergen Man Shouts At Asian Customer That Chinese Caused COVID, Police Say
A 70-year-old Glen Rock man straddled the line between free speech and harassment, police said, when he stood behind an Asian-American woman at a CVS checkout counter and shouted that the Chinese Communist Party "caused COVID."
"That’s why we’re wearing these masks,” the man reportedly yelled, bringing police to the Rock Road store.
He yelled this several times, said the woman, who “felt threatened [because] she was the only Asian individual in the immediate area,” Police Chief Dean Ackermann said.
A witness corroborated her account, he added.
Interviewed by police, the man said that he …
