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Bergen sheriff’s quality of life detail nabs Lodi man with 119 bags of heroin

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A special Quality of Life street initiative led to the arrest of a Lodi man who Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino said tossed more than 100 bags of heroin over a fence when he saw detectives watching him.

Photo Credit: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

Manuel Felton, 36, was being held on $10,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after Saudino’s investigators teamed up with detectives from Hackensack and Lodi to make the arrest.

Felton reached into his pants, pulled out 119 bags of heroin wrapped in two bundles and tossed them over the fence after he spotted the detectives watching him a female acquaintance walking on Massy Street in Lodi, Saudino said this afternoon.

The couple kept walking until the officers stopped them, the sheriff said.

Saudino thanked the Hackensack and Lodi police departments for their cooperation.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

 

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