Paterson police find garage filled with fireworks, $18,000 cash in Montgomery Street raid

July 4, 2020

The police raided a garage on Montgomery Street that was filled with fireworks on Friday night, according to public safety director Jerry Speziale.

Speziale said police confiscated more than 100 commercial grade firework packages in their raid at 185 Montgomery Street at around 11:40 p.m. Each package had multiple fireworks inside, he said.

Police also recovered $18,226 and an assortment of drugs.

Jose Hernandez, 23-year-old, of Paterson, was arrested and charged with 10 drug offenses.

Hernandez allegedly had 109 grams of cocaine, 109 grams of crack cocaine, 7 marijuana vape pens, 63 Ecstasy, 153 Oxycodone, 58 Percocet, 100 Ambien, 104 Xanax pills, and 15 Suboxone strips.

Hernandez also had drug paraphernalia, police said.

DemocrapSocialistsSuck

I wonder how many of the fireworks will end up in the cops' backyards tonight lmfao
- TK Kirkland
  
  The whole cache!
DaMan

he was another good kid who wanted to play basketball and go to university, and those were probably not his (sarcasm here ) …this is how he was paying his tuition—–he is not "privileged" with 18K in cash …….
John

Whats this world coming to when the title of.this article only mentioned the fire works as if the class A felonies for drugs wasn't news worthy.
- DemocrapSocialistsSuck
  
  We don't have classes of felonies in NJ, we have degrees.
SHENNETTE FLOOD

<i></i>YOU KNOW THIS IS SAD ,BUT ONLY 23 ABOUT TO GET A RECORD,FOR SOMETHING THAT MIGHT NOT WAS HIS.NOW HIS BASKETBALL DREAMS ARE OUT THE WINDOW ,I SURE HOPE HE REMAINS IN SCHOOL..ONCE ALL THIS IS OVER…MAYBE HAPPINESS IS AT THE END OF THIS MADNESS..STAY STRONG…
DANNY cee

They got the guys age wrong. He was 40. Still not right.

Top