Crime & Safety

Cops Have Busy Week Busting Alleged Ecstasy Peddlers

After two separate investigations, police officers charged four people with dealing ecstasy.

Four ecstasy dealers were arrested in separate stings Monday and Tuesday, as county drug task force members seized 1800 pills worth more than $30,000, authorities said.

First, on Monday, county investigators and the Paramus Police  arrested New Yorkers Shanee Bujarski, 23, and Tristan Dean, 20 on second-degree drug charges when the pair to sell a county detective 300 pills of the popular club drug for $2,100, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said. Police had been investigating Bujarski since at least Sept. 29, when he sold 200 ecstasy pills to an undercover detective, the prosecutor said.

The following day, authorities arrested Luis Montas, 24, and Carla Rosario, 23, both also of New York, on first-degree distribution charges, Molinelli said. The two tried to sell 1,500 pills to an undercover narcotics detective for $5,250, the prosecutor said.

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Authorities seized $25,000 in ecstasy from the pair, Molinelli said.

Molinelli did not say where in Paramus the arrests occured. As a matter of course, investigators do not disclose the locations that they use for controlled buys.

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All four were being held Wednesday in Bergen County Jail.

 

 

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