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cotyaA Bergen County Prosecutor's Office-led probe into heroin distribution in Bergen and surrounding counties resulted in seven arrests in Fair Lawn and two arrests of Fair Lawn residents outside of the borough.
...The multi-jurisdictional narcotics investigation, coordinated by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, nabbed approximately 120 individuals, ranging from drug traffickers moving heroin between Trenton and Paterson to suburban North Jersey buyers, Molinelli said. The heroin probe was launched early this year in response to a more than 100 percent increase in Bergen County overdose deaths from 2011 to 2012, including a dozen deaths over a four-month span beginning last June.
Authorities put eyes on Paterson after learning many of the Bergen County overdoses were linked to drug purchases made there.
Fair Lawn Interim Police Chief Glen Cauwels said that investigators used surveillance techniques to identify where heroin sales were taking place in Paterson and who was making the sales.
...Since multiple routes out of Paterson run through Fair Lawn, many of the task force’s buyer arrests occurred in the borough.
Seven alleged buyers from as far out as Hewitt were arrested in Fair Lawn over the four-month investigation.
Cauwels said buyers also frequently stop in Fair Lawn to use heroin after purchasing it in Paterson.
“That’s why you see a lot of drug arrests at the CVS. They’ll pull over in the parking lot,” he said. “Officers will see a car parked away from everybody else, they’ll see multiple people in the car and activity in the car, so they’ll just roll up and see what’s going on and most likely they’ll see the person actually doing the drugs in the car and make the arrest.”
...Cauwels said he thinks the recent prosecutor’s office probe may help dampen the county’s heroin problem temporarily, but that drugs always seem to make a comeback. “Drugs have been a problem for a long time and you never seem to solve the problem,” he said. “For a while it was Ecstasy, now it’s Molly, now it’s heroin. It seems like whenever one is going out there’s a new one coming in.”
Cauwels said the focus in Fair Lawn remains stopping any drug distribution that is occurring in town.
“That’s our main concern,” he said.
...The multi-jurisdictional narcotics investigation, coordinated by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, nabbed approximately 120 individuals, ranging from drug traffickers moving heroin between Trenton and Paterson to suburban North Jersey buyers, Molinelli said. The heroin probe was launched early this year in response to a more than 100 percent increase in Bergen County overdose deaths from 2011 to 2012, including a dozen deaths over a four-month span beginning last June.
Authorities put eyes on Paterson after learning many of the Bergen County overdoses were linked to drug purchases made there.
Fair Lawn Interim Police Chief Glen Cauwels said that investigators used surveillance techniques to identify where heroin sales were taking place in Paterson and who was making the sales.
...Since multiple routes out of Paterson run through Fair Lawn, many of the task force’s buyer arrests occurred in the borough.
Seven alleged buyers from as far out as Hewitt were arrested in Fair Lawn over the four-month investigation.
Cauwels said buyers also frequently stop in Fair Lawn to use heroin after purchasing it in Paterson.
“That’s why you see a lot of drug arrests at the CVS. They’ll pull over in the parking lot,” he said. “Officers will see a car parked away from everybody else, they’ll see multiple people in the car and activity in the car, so they’ll just roll up and see what’s going on and most likely they’ll see the person actually doing the drugs in the car and make the arrest.”
...Cauwels said he thinks the recent prosecutor’s office probe may help dampen the county’s heroin problem temporarily, but that drugs always seem to make a comeback. “Drugs have been a problem for a long time and you never seem to solve the problem,” he said. “For a while it was Ecstasy, now it’s Molly, now it’s heroin. It seems like whenever one is going out there’s a new one coming in.”
Cauwels said the focus in Fair Lawn remains stopping any drug distribution that is occurring in town.
“That’s our main concern,” he said.
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