MAHWAH, N.J. – A Connecticut couple stopped by Mahwah police on southbound Route 287 with $8,000 in suspected drug money weren’t into telling the truth – which ended up sending one of them to jail, authorities said.
Officer Tyler Boucher spotted a small amount of pot in the lap of 37-year-old passenger McClendon Jones of Hartford after stopping a vehicle driver by Shian Anderson, 25, of Manchester, Police Chief James N. Batelli said.
The officer ordered both out of the car after Jones “Admitted to the officer that he had been rolling a blunt,” the chief said.
Jones remained held in the Bergen County Jail following a detention hearing on the Connecticut warrant and charges out of Mahwah of money laundering, providing false information to police and drug-related counts.