By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, November 24, 1991
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Police in the City of Passaic said Saturday that they raided a cocaine-packaging shop on Third Street and made two arrests.
Late Friday night, officers armed with warrants searched three apartments at 155 Third St. controlled by Ana Marie Burgos, said Capt. Richard Wolak, Police Narcotic Squad commander.
Burgos, 37, who lives in one of the apartments, and Angel Domingo Laboy, 28, of Monroe St., Passaic, were arrested.
Wolak said officers found $4,100, cocaine valued at $20,000 in $20, $100, and $500 packages, and 4 ounces of loose cocaine. They found material to dilute cocaine, packaging equipment, scales, and screens, he said.
“What was unique about this is that in this one building they had three separate apartments and they would move the cocaine from apartment to apartment to avoid detection and apprehension. . . . They were stash pads, basically,” Wolak said.
Burgos and Laboy were each charged with possession of more than 5 ounces of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, distribution of cocaine within a school zone, and maintaining a drug-production facility.
Burgos was being held Saturday in the Passaic County Jail on $150,000 bail; Laboy was being held on $75,000 bail.
Two of the charges possession of more than 5 ounces of cocaine and maintaining a drug-production facility are first-degree offenses punishable by prison sentences of 25 years to life.
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