YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack man caught with four bags of marijuana and 150 illegal Oxycodone pills after a Route 17 traffic stop had another bag of pot in his shoe, Rochelle Park police said.
Officer Jared Shatkin stopped the black BMW with North Carolina license plates for several motor-vehicle violations on the southbound highway around 11:30 last night, Detective Jim DePreta told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.
Right away, Shatkin could smell marijuana, DePreta said.
Driver Wayne Hall, 34, gave the officer a different name — which Shatkin discovered after obtaining a consent to search and finding a backpack containing Hall’s expired driver’s license, the detective said.
A more extensive search turned up the four bags of pot, the Oxy — worth about $4,000 on the street — in an unmarked bottle, more than seven dozen empty ziplocking plastic bags and $850 in small denominations of cash, he said.
Police found the fifth bag of marijuana during a search at police headquarters, DePreta said.
Hall was being held on $37,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various drug offenses, as well as giving false information to police. He also received several motor vehicle summones, DePreta said.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF