Lt. James J. Carlucci, Detective Bureau Commander, informs us that Montclair police are investigating a residential burglary that occurred on Clinton Ave between midnight. and 4 p.m. on August 25th. Unknown suspect(s) entered the residence through an unlocked front door and removed several items from the bedrooms including an I-Pod Touch, Apple Macbook, a white G-shock watch with a purple and turquoise bezel and approximately $300. In all, the suspect(s) made off with more than $ 1,700. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Lynn McCarthy at 973-509-4725.
Another residential burglary took place on Notting Hill Way, the townhouse complex located here. The burglary occurred between 10 p.m. on August 24th and 8 a.m. on the 25th. Unknown suspect(s) entered the residence through an unlocked back door while the homeowners were asleep and removed a Gateway Netbook laptop from the kitchen area, valued at $ 500. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Terence Turner at 973-509-4724.
As a result of an ongoing narcotics investigation, detectives arrested Luis Najera-Rojoas, 24, a resident of Bloomfield, who is in the country illegally. The Cost Rican native was arrested on August 25th in the evening hours after police detained him and found several bags of marijuana inside a backpack he was carrying. The estimated street value of the marijuana is around $1,000. Najera-Rojoas was charged with possession of over 50 grams of marijuana, possession of CDS (controlled dangerous substance) with the intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of Glenfield School and within 500 feet of Glenfield Park. The arrest occurred on Bloomfield Avenue near Glenfield School. Bail has been set at $100,000 bond / $10,000 cash. Najera-Rojoas will be transferred to the Essex County Jail in Newark later today.
“unlocked front door”
“unlocked back door”
Just mind boggling.
Luis Najera-Rojoas… who is in the country illegally.
Send him back to a Costa Rican prison.
It makes me wonder how many times someone has jiggled my door knob, found it locked, and moved on to the next house….
Marijuana = Controlled Dangerous Substance!
May I ask, appletony, if you somehow see the inspiring tale of Mr. Najera-Rojoas as an actual reason to legalize drugs?
Youg man comes to America from the provinces (albeit illegally), spurns such likely initial paths to good citizenship and financial success as landscaping and day labor, instead sells drugs, thus contributing to the woes of his neighbors and their neighborhoods. Yes, that sounds completely like the path to good citizenship a true aspirant to that status takes upon arrival in the US. It is so, so touching. (And Mr. Najera-Rojoas was somehow “foced” into criminality by the lack of job prospects for illegals?)
Come on now, appletony. He was a mere street dealer with a likely bent towards feloniousness, not simply a striving member of those “huddled masses yearning to be free.”
Although my post was primarily to emphasize the stupidity of the legal classification of marijuana as “dangerous”, I can respond “yes” to your question, but not in the way that you seem to infer.
I think the mere facts of Mr. Najera-Rojoas’ illegal existence within our borders and seeming ability make an illegal living support a key reason for ending the drug war: the criminally minded should be kept from earning so easy a living as is to be found in dealing intoxicants. Just as it was wrong to give mobsters the boon of alcohol prohibition income many years ago, it is a shame and a waste that we persist in providing them easy funding now.
Everything you say about the guy screams to me that it would be different if one had to go to a legal dispensary or retailer to buy marijuana. Let’s assume the guy is an evil scumbag who is more than marginally involved in a criminal syndicate: wouldn’t removing this profit stream from him and his compadres be a good thing?
If you insist that marijuana — the substance, NOT the criminal distribution activity — is “dangerous” then we’re too far apart on the topic to carry the discussion much further. If the “danger” of the substance is minimal (which is obviously my opinion), then what justifies statist intrusion at the level of urban “war” in its interdiction?