Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: Woman Charged With Heroin, Cocaine Possession

This week's Cranford Police reports.

Cranford Police arrested Roberta James, 42, on North Avenue by the Garden State Parkway ramp around 10:22 p.m. Feb. 27 for allegedly possessing cocaine and heroin, according to Det. Sgt. Gerard Quinn of the Cranford Police Department. 

Police found James, a Roselle resident, occupying a broken-down 2000 Mercury Sable parked on the side of North Avenue.

Police also found she possessed a suspended driver's license and outstanding criminal warrants from Linden, Woodbridge and Elizabeth. James' is scheduled in Superior Court in Elizabeth today.

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Here are the rest of this week's Cranford law enforcement reports:

  • Police arrested William Thwaites, 19, on Feb. 22 for allegedly possessing less than 50 grams of marijuana. The Kenilworth resident, driving a 2001 Jeep, was pulled over for an inspection violation on Kenilworth Boulevard by County Park Drive around 10 a.m. Ptl. Timothy O'Brien located both a glass pipe and the drug in the vehicle. He is scheduled to appear in Cranford Municipal Court today.
  • Cranford Police arrested Ahmad Saadeh, 30, for alleged possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana.

Ptl. Spencer Durkin pulled over the Union resident around 2:17 p.m., who was driving a 2003 Chevrolet, on Centennial Avenue by Raritan Road because he was not wearing a seatbelt. When Durkin allegedly located a bag of suspected marijuana as well as a partially smoked hand rolled marijuana cigar.  Saadeh is scheduled to appear in Cranford Municipal Court today. 

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