Crime & Safety

Bergen County Warrant Sweep Nets New Milford Man on Drug Charges

Prosecutor's Office investigators seized cash, drugs in six county warrant sweep, authorities say

A New Milford man was among 20 people arrested Thursday by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force in a drug warrant sweep spanning six counties, authorities said.

The arrests came as a result of undercover drug investigations the task force conducted over the past 12 months, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement Friday.

Investigators seized two pounds of marijuana, more than one-half ounce of cocaine and approximately 100 pills of prescriptions drugs, along with about $3,200 in cash, the prosecutor said.

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Mario Jimenez of Madison Avenue was arrested on charges of distribution of cocaine, distribution of cocaine within 1000 feet of a school zone, and possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.

In December 2011,  that involved Dr. Carnig Shakarjian of the Ankle & Foot Health Care & Trauma Institute in Emerson.

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Shakarjian was charged with writing prescriptions for high doses of Oxycodone and allegedly selling prescriptions for Oxycodone. Jimenez was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance on school property and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.  

Jimenez is being held in the Bergen County Jail in lieu of bail.   

Arrests were made in other nearby towns, including HackensackRiver Edge and Teaneck

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