PATERSON: Narcotics detectives seized more than 600 glassine packets of heroin during a drug bust that began in the city’s 3rd Ward on Wednesday, according to Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik.
The detectives had gotten information that local dealers would be meeting out-of-town buyers near the corner of East 24th Street and 4th Avenue and set up surveillance, the sheriff said.
They spotted one suspect, 24-year-old Tahjrahmi Mason, pull up in a black Chrysler with Tennessee license plates, get out of the car and look around while talking on a cell phone and holding an object in his hand, the sheriff said.
Mason dropped the object, which turned out to be 50 packets of heroin, and got back inside his vehicle when a vehicle passed by, Berdnik said. Detectives then moved in and found another 60 glassines of heroin in the car, the sheriff said.
A subsequent search of Mason’s apartment on East 19th Street turned up another 500 heroin glassines, the sheriff said. Mason and his passenger, 23-year-old Efrem Langston of Paterson, were arrested and charged with possession and intent to distribute heroin, authorities said.
The detectives also confiscated $2,129 in suspected drug proceeds from Mason, Langston and the apartment, police said.
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