Suspected drug deal seen near Shephard and Mapes avenues, Newark NJ
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According to the dispatch call, police observed a suspected drug hand-to-hand transaction near Shephard Avenue and Mapes Avenue in Newark. Officers watched individuals exchange a plastic baggie and coordinated to contain a black Porsche and a silver Mercedes nearby.
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03:38
Transcript:
00:00
We got any takedown units available?
00:03
I'm in the area near a hundred and a year.
00:05
I got something.
00:08
What do you got, Snokes?
00:11
I got a guy making hand-to-hand.
00:13
He's got a clear plastic baggie in this hand right now.
00:17
All right, Snooks, we're going your way.
00:19
We're just clearing that filming has a job.
00:24
Hey, Snooks, what was that to me?
00:27
Shephard and Hunterdon.
00:30
All right, see what I thought of.
00:33
Hey, Ty, you got to go with you now on the train.
00:37
This is... Stokes, where...
00:39
Meek here coming up for a little bit.
00:42
Let me see the two individuals near Mapes and Hunterdon, but they're walking between Mapes and Shephard.
00:51
Trying to keep my eye on them.
00:54
And you saw that make a sale, so they both have to go?
00:58
The tan jumper, not yet, but the one with the blue wool hat, yes.
01:03
He has a plastic baggie.
01:06
That individual with a blue scully made the sale and is engaging with somebody at a black Porsche parked between Mapes and Shephard.
01:16
So I'm just keeping my eye on the area and both of them.
01:21
Are you seeing another body?
01:24
Yeah, you can set up if you can somewhere on Mapes, because there's another individual with a tan snowsuit or a carhartt suit that I don't have great eyes on.
01:37
Sorry, you said Mapes and Shephard?
01:41
Yeah, that's fine.
01:44
Those two are turning on Mapes now.
01:49
I receive, he's got like two people approaching them now, so if you guys are closed, whatever you're ready,
01:55
just let me know and you can do it.
01:59
Okay, Keith, they're called home lead.
02:01
Just let me know.
02:03
Yeah, it's going to be on you.
02:06
Just go along because there's five of us.
02:10
All right, last update to wait, please, location stuff.
02:17
He's between Shephard and Nate standing next to a black Porsche.
02:24
He's one of all black with a blue horse hat of some sort.
02:30
So if she was that cartel?
02:34
No, I can't see, you know, we stuck into a car, but if somebody wants a chicken plate on it, that'd be fine.
02:41
Everything.
02:44
Well, yeah, now he just reached into the vehicle, so it may be in play.
02:49
All right, let's box that car in, so front,
02:55
side, and rear.
02:58
When you do bang this left, he'll be right there to your left,
03:01
standing next to the Porsche to driver's side right now.
03:04
We're doing now.
03:06
We'll watch.
03:07
Until we can you take that end up for you when ready?
03:12
What?
03:14
It's going to be Juliet 4-7, Uniform Delta Whitsy, should come back to a black horse, and I got a second.
03:19
Redwin, ready.
03:22
Go ahead, the second.
03:24
It's going to be Romeo, 2-9, Victor, Hotel, Tango, Jersey.
03:28
Should come back from Silver Mercedes, I should be.
03:31
We'll come back to 16 negative.
03:36
Proceed, thanks.
03:38
Under.
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Location mentioned:
Shephard Ave & Mapes Ave, Newark, NJ 07112
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